FÀ LA COSA GIUSTA 2023
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26 | Milano, Italy
Nata nel 2004 da un progetto della casa editrice Terre di mezzo ha la finalità di far conoscere e diffondere sul territorio nazionale le “buone pratiche” di consumo e produzione e di valorizzare le specificità e le eccellenze, in rete e in sinergia con il tessuto istituzionale, associativo e imprenditoriale locale.

Fa’ la cosa giusta! è…
• fiera di prodotti e servizi: scopri gli espositori iscritti e le aree espositive
• tre giorni di eventi, laboratori, incontri, presentazioni, degustazioni, spettacoli: più di 450 eventi nel Programma Culturale per tutte le fasce d’eta
• convivialità e servizi: nursery, spazio bimbi, ristorazione
• occasione di relazione, formazione e scoperta per i volontari e le scuole

International invitation to the monthly meeting of the Campaign for a Global SSE Curriculum
2023-03-29 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | online
International invitation to the monthly meeting of the Campaign for a Global Curriculum of the Social and Solidarity Economy March 29 in French, 4:France pm With the International Research Network on the Social Economy from the epistemology of the South. Institutional Network for the Strengthening of the Social and Solidarity Economy of the Metropolitan Autonomous University

Program
Coordination:
Introducing the Serxia Lage Tree Team – Transforming Education for Entrepreneurship @TrEEPProjectEU
Blanca del Hoyo Master in Secondary, Vocational and Language Education

confirmed Andrea Caro -coordinator in Sol Violette-Volunteer in Emmaus movement
confirmed Carminda Mac Lorin – www.katalizo.org
confirmed Ricardo Contreras: International Network for Research in Social Economy based on the epistemology of the South.
confirmed Dining Experience at Sunrise

4pm Francia/País Vasco/Barcelona/Marruecos/Suiza 12pmBrasil/Argentina 9am Mexico City, 10am Colombia

Call for papers: Fair Trade and Sustainable Development International Symposium
2023-04-04 - 2023-06-16 | Agadir, MOROCCO
FTSD International Symposium 2023

The international symposium on Fair Trade & Sustainable Developmnt (FTSD) is a scientific event that regularly brings together researchers and practitioners who are interested and work on different aspects of fair trade and sustainable development.
It provides a forum for exchanging practices, tools, models and experiences to advance research and open up new perspectives.
For its 3rd edition, the FTSD 2023 Symposium will take place at the Higher School of Technology of the Ibn Zohr University – Agadir – Morocco
Symposium Topics
Topic 1 : Valorization of territories and Protection of the environment
Topic 2 : CSR and governance
Topic 3 : Resilience and innovation
Topic 4 : Social and solidarity economy
Topic 5 : Marketing and commercialization
Topic 6 : Management and strategy of Fair Trade Organizations (OCE)
Topic 7 : Ethics, territories and sustainable standardization

Topic 8 : Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Finance

Civil Society Organisations and democracy in Europe
2023-04-14 14:00 - 17:00 | online
The French Institute for Civil Society Organisations is honoured to welcome Oleksandra Matviichuk, President of the Center for Civil Liberties of Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize 2022, as a keynote speaker for this webinar.

In 2022, the French Institute for Civil Society Organisations launched, in partnership with the Maecenata Foundation, the Institute for Social Research, and the Mouvement associatif, a working group on Civil Society Organisations in Europe. This working group brought together 40 researchers and practitioners with mixed expertise from 16 European countries to shed light on CSOs in Europe, on their contribution to society and democracy, and on their needs.
This working group was tasked with detecting European CSOs knowledge needs, drawing a state of the art, and issuing recommendations for a European research agenda on CSOs.
We are thrilled to present the results of this working group and to think about advancing knwoledge on CSOs during a webinar that will be held on the 14th of April!

Insights into ECOLISE’s policy flagship project: Communities and the European Green Deal – and how you can contribute
2023-04-20 16:00 - 18:00 | online
ECOLISE’s policy flagship project
The 10 theses towards transformative community-led local development have been in a consultation phase since September 2022, with over 300 persons from almost 70 organizations contributing. We will continue to work on this policy flagship project in 2023 and will give an insight into our plans for this year- with the hope of attracting your contributions as partners and members!
Agenda:

Presentation of our goals and plans for 2023, including a review of 2022
What are joint benefits – and how you can contribute to our flagship project?
Next step: deepening phase May – June 2023 on localization and leverage points for advocacy within the European Green Deal, including 2 workshops by our partner The Good Lobby
Discussion on a joint advocacy campaign (launching in autumn 2023 at ECOLISE’s main policy event & targeting the elections for the European Parliament 2024)

Speakers:
ECOLISE Policy team
Nina Klein & Amelie Krug

Voting Rights for ALL Residents/ VRAR
2023-04-26 | online
A new INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AGENDA DAY will be held on April 26, 2023.
On April 26, 1914, the women’s movement in France organized a historic public event to demand Equal Rights in Politics. On April 26, 2023, a major breakthrough in the exercise of democracy will be celebrated with the 3rd International Day for the Right to Vote for ALL residents – regardless of nationality.
The European network – Voting Rights for ALL Residents / VRAR – invites you to participate in the event online, please send us an email, so we can send you the program and the link of the event.
The event will be held in English, but we will provide simultaneous translation into French, Italian and German.
Please let us know via contact@votingrightsforall.net your name, city, country.

Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents - April - June 2023
2023-04-26 - 2023-06-28
Seminar Room 1, SPGI Department, via del Santo 28, Padua – Italy & online

As part of the Master’s degree program in Human Rights and Multilevel Governance (HRG) of the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua (SPGI), the seminar series Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents will run from April 26 to June 28, 2023. The seminars, aimed at students in the International law of human rights course (Prof. Paolo De Stefani), is open online to all people interested in the defense of the right to housing.

The series, in collaboration with the International Alliance of Inhabitants, consists of webinars and in-person workshop meetings on housing issues from a human rights perspective, in which the coordinators of the IAI and experts from Spain, Argentina, Tunisia, Brazil, and India, aimed at learning more about the role of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in defending the right to housing.

Meetings are held on Wednesdays always in Seminar Room 1 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. CEST (maximum capacity 20 seats)

and via Zoom platform at the following link:
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/89673210654

Interpreters: IT/EN/ES/FR/PT

Information: Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents.

PROGRAM OF MEETINGS

Wednesday 26.04.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html… )

Using international human rights law procedures to defend housing rights
* Cesare Ottolini, International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), global coordinator, Italy

Wednesday 03.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html… )

Right to housing and “zero evictions”. Communications to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
* Paco Morote, Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), España

Wednesday 17.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=IDPs,+Slums,+COVID-19+India&iso=20230517T15&p1=5654&ah=1&am=30 )

IDPs, Slums, COVID-19, international human rights standards, and housing rights in India
* Varghese Theckanath, Montfort Social Institute (MSI), director, Hyderabad, India

Wednesday 31.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Derecho+a+la+vivienda+y+a+la+tierra,+Argentina&iso=20230531T15&p1=5654&ah=1&am=30 )

The right to housing and land: the case of Argentina
* Cristina Reynals, International Alliance of Inhabitants Cono Sur, coordinator, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Wednesday 14.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html… )

Housing Rights in the Mediterranean Space
* Soha Ben Slama, IAI and International Tribunal on Evictions (ITE), coordinator, Tunisia

Wednesday 28.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Despejos+Zero,+direito+%C3%A0+moradia+e+democracia+no+Brasil&iso=20230628T15&p1=5654&ah=1&am=30 )

“Despejos Zero”, right to housing and democracy in Brazil
* Getulio Vargas Jr., Bartiria Lima da Costa, Confederaçao Nacional Moradores (CONAM) and Campanha Despejos Zero, Brasil

Special series

Wednesday 10.05.2023 and Wednesday 24.05.2023
Building a task force on housing rights at HRG

* Cesare Ottolini, Paolo De Stefani

* Scientific director: Paolo de Stefani, University of Padua.

Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents
2023-04-26 - 2023-06-28
Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Strategic Struggles and Disputes on Four Continents
April – June 2023
Seminar Room 1, SPGI Department, via del Santo 28, Padua – Italy & online
In the framework of the Master in Human Rights and Multi-Level Governance (HRG) of the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua (SPGI), the seminar series Housing Rights. Strategic Struggles and Disputes on Four Continents will take place from April 26 to June 28, 2023. The seminars, intended for students of the course of International Human Rights Law (Prof. Paolo De Stefani), are also open online to all those interested in the defense of the right to housing.
The cycle, in collaboration with the International Alliance of Inhabitants, consists of webinars on housing issues from a human rights perspective, held by IAH coordinators and experts from Spain, Argentina, Tunisia, Brazil and India, as well as workshops, in presence, aimed at deepening the role of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the defense of housing rights.
Meetings are always held from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. CEST on Wednesdays:
Seminar Room 1, SPGI Department, via del Santo 28, Padua (maximum capacity of 20 seats).
Online, through the Zoom platform https://unipd.zoom.us/j/89673210654
Interpreters : IT/EN/ES/FR/PT
SEMINAR PROGRAM
Wednesday 26.04.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)
Using international human rights law procedures to defend the right to housing
Cesare Ottolini, International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAH), Global Coordinator, Italy
Wednesday 03.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)
Housing rights and zero evictions. Communications to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Paco Morote, Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), Spain
Wednesday 17.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)
IDPs, slums, COVID-19, international human rights standards and housing rights in India
Varghese Theckanath, Director, Montfort Social Institute (MSI), Hyderabad, India
Wednesday 31.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)
Right to housing and land: the case of Argentina
Cristina Reynals, International Alliance of Inhabitants Cono Sur, Coordinator, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wednesday 14.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)
The right to housing in the Mediterranean Area
Soha Ben Slama, AIH and International Tribunal of Evictions (ITE), Coordinator, Tunisia
Wednesday 28.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)
Despejos Zero’, housing rights and democracy in Brazil
Getulio Vargas Jr, Bartiria Lima da Costa, Confederaçao Nacional Moradores (CONAM) and Campanha Despejos Zero, Brazil
SPECIAL SERIES
Wednesday 10.05.2023 and Wednesday 24.05.2023
Creation of a task force for the right to housing within the HRG
Cesare Ottolini, Paolo De Stefani
Scientific leader: Paolo de Stefani, University of Padua.
Information: Seminar series on the right to housing. Struggles and strategic disputes on four continents
Info
FB World Assembly of Inhabitantas
FB World Zero Evictions – Cero Desalojos – Zero Evictions
www.habitants.org
media.iai@habitants.org

GSEF DAKAR 2023
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-06 | Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Welcome to the Dakar GSEF2023 Forum

Every two years, the GSEF holds a Global Social Economy Forum, in partnership with member cities around the world. It has become a key event for the social and solidarity economy (SSE), demonstrating how this concept is embodied today. At each edition, a declaration is adopted, binding the host city and participants and formalizing the commitment to work towards this human-focused economy, an indispensable tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This event represents a privileged platform for shared learning and exchanging knowledge and perspectives on all aspects of the SSE. The GSEF is a global network of local governments and civil society stakeholders committed to promoting the SSE as a path to a “different economy” for the benefit of all, a means for empowering local development, centered on social and environmental issues.

World Localization Day
2023-05-23 - 2023-06-21 | WORLDWIDE
A month of local celebrations all over the world, each year.
World Localization Day, on June 21st, celebrates the worldwide localization movement–not only on the day itself, but during the entire month of June. In 2023, for the fourth year in a row, people all over the world will come together to explore the power of localization, and to honor the many initiatives, old and new, that foster ecological economies, thriving communities and healthy local food systems. Stay tuned for 2023 updates, and browse past events below.
World Localization Day is an annual celebration of the worldwide localization movement.
It’s more than just a day: it’s an invitation to see the world in a new way. To gain an awareness of place by participating in small-scale, local economic exchanges. To create change locally as part of a global movement for healthier communities and economies.

Deadline extended to June 15: 3rd International Conference Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons Decolonizing the Solidarity Economy and Commons: Enacting the “Pluriverse”
2023-05-31 - 2023-06-15 | Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal
We would like to inform you that the deadline for submitting proposals was extended to June 15 2023.

The event’s webpage (https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt ) contains updated information on the keynote speakers, parallel cultural activities, etc.

Any questions regarding organisation of the conference or participation can be sent to ssecommons.cei@iscte-iul.pt.

On behalf of the organizing committee of #SSE&Commons2023,
Ana Margarida Esteves

Register for the events organized by ATES during the International Tourism Week for All, Solidarity and Sustainable
2023-06-05 - 2023-06-11
On the occasion of the International Tourism Week for All, Sustainable and Solidarity (from 5 to 11 June 2023), an event organized annually by the International Organization for Social Tourism (ISTO), the Association for Fair and Solidarity Tourism (ATES) of France wishes to offer a space in which fair and community tourism actors from different countries can exchange with their peers and share their experiences, challenges and successes.
For the first time, on 5 and 9 June 2023, ATES will host two remote round tables open to all, which will allow Spanish- and French-speaking fair and community-based tourism agents to compare their perspectives. In addition, on June 6 and 7, ATES will organize two webinars, in Spanish and English, to help discover the principles and fundamentals of fair tourism, its applications and some inspiring practices to take action.
05.06.2023
Round table in Spanish
How to create a national brand of fair and solidary tourism?
What are the challenges of marketing and commercialization of this type of tourism offer and how can they be overcome?
What can we learn from the initiatives of fair, community and solidarity tourism brands that are being carried out in Latin America?
06.06. 2023
Fair Tourism I Webinar in Spanish
Exploring new paths, a step towards fair tourism!
What is fair tourism?
What are its principles and how can they be put into practice?
What inspiring examples can be reproduced and under what conditions?
07.06.2023
Webinaire of fair tourism I in English
Exploring new paths, a step towards fair tourism!
What is fair tourism?
What are its principles and how can they be put into practice?
What inspiring examples can be reproduced and under what conditions?
09.06.2023
Round table in French
How to accompany and bring together non-professionals around fair tourism?
How are these people organized to cooperate, develop their skills and promote an attractive tourist offer?
What can we learn from initiatives to structure rural tourism networks around the world?
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/ates-association-pour-le-tourisme-equitable-et-solidaire/evenements/mesa-redonda-como-crear-una-marca-nacional-de-turismo-justo-y-solidario
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/ates-association-pour-le-tourisme-equitable-et-solidaire/evenements/explorando-nuevos-caminos-un-paso-hacia-el-turismo-justo

ISHF 2023 event – Housing policies from below: local co-production strategies for housing justice
2023-06-08 15:30 - 18:30 | online
How is housing policy shaped by local actors inside and outside public institutions? How do these practices respond to the housing emergency with short and long-term actions? How do they vary across the globe? What alliances are driving them, particularly between local governments and civil society?
Information and Registration
In order to address these and other questions, we invite you to join the activity “Housing policies from below: local co-production strategies for housing justice”, to be held in the context of the 2023, International Social Housing Festival, taking place in Barcelona, from the 7th to the 9th of June. The event will take place on Thursday 8th of June, between 15:30h and 18:20h at Comissions Obreres de Catalunya (CCOO) (see map here).
Please register here by clicking on the event. Participants must be registered to the festival in order to join the activity. Registration is free and can be done here until May 29th. The event will count with interpretation in English and Spanish.
MORE INFO : https://www.right2city.org/events/ishf-2023-event-housing-policies-from-below-local-co-production-strategies-for-housing-justice/

[Devisus E+ project] Meeting around social utility and social impact
2023-06-13 15:30 - 18:00 | Bruxelles, Belgique
Impact and social utility of the social and solidarity economy (SSE): common issues and benchmarks at the heart of the evaluation
The question of social impact and utility (IUS) in the SSE sector is a current issue throughout Europe.
Taking into account the diversity of evaluation tools and approaches, all the partners of the DEVISUS project share the importance of building evaluation methods that take into account the specificities of the SSE and that are supported by the actors themselves, hence the resulting training challenge.
At the end of this project, we invite you to a meeting to present some common benchmarks and collective orientations as part of the evaluation of the IUS. It is also about exchanging with you, stakeholders of the SSE ecosystem, to feed our future reflections.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Audience : national and European SSE actors, administrations, public authorities, institutions, etc.
Date : Tuesday, June 13, 2023 (3:45-6pm) + drink
Address : Mundo-Madou, Av. des Arts 7/8, 1210 Brussels
Cost : free participation
DEVISUS PROJECT
Through times of exchange of practices, knowledge, experiences, skills and resources, the partners of the DEVISUS project (Development of an Ecosystem for the Valorization of Social Impact and Social Utility) wished to work on the co-construction of a shared vision, by sharing their experiences and lessons on the subject.
Interested? Mark your calendars for this meeting and check THE ONLINE PAGE and PROGRAM (in French) !

Sustainable mobility against pollution, energy and time wastage
2023-06-22 16:30 - 18:00 | online
Less polluted cities on a human scale, flexible services for getting around, innovative, territorially integrated and efficient transport: this is sustainable and intelligent mobility, that which increases the quality of life.
Unfortunately, the organisation of the ever-growing transport system and land planning often do not go hand in hand, even in Trentino.
Developing sustainable mobility projects therefore means working simultaneously on the environmental impact and on people’s quality of life.
Is Trentino sustainable in terms of mobility? How can an area like ours be connected? How can the concept of the 15-minute city be adapted to our province? Which direction should the future of sustainable mobility take?
We talk about this on Thursday 22 June at 4.30 p.m. in this online talk with:
Giuseppe Grezzi | Valencia’s mobility councillor
Jacopo Nespolo | Physicist and cycle activist
Elisa Nicoli | Eco-narrator
Moderator: Andreas Fernandez, communication sociologist and ecologist

URGENCI: Advocacy for Agroecology Partnerships"
2023-06-28 - 2023-06-29 | ND du Chant D’Oiseau, Brussels, Av. des Franciscanes 3A, Belgium
Final event of the SALSIFI (Supporting Advanced Learning for Stakeholders Involved in Sustainable Food systems Initiatives) – an Erasmus+ Project aiming to develop and implement an innovative transnational education programme reinforcing the capacity of CSA networks and civil servants at local, regional, national and EU levels to engage in collaborative public food policy-making processes.

Here is the programme.

ADVOCADO – Advocacy learning platform

Four courses have been developed through the partnership of 10 organisations. Each course concentrates on a specific advocacy topic. You’ll find the descriptions of each course below. The courses are open-access and available in English.
Each course consists of an online self-paced online learning module, recordings from live sessions and downloadable course materials. The materials of the courses that finished running in May 2023 are being compiled and will be available below in the next weeks.
The partnership consists of: AMAP IdF – France, AMPI – Czechia, ASAT – Romania, DEAFAL – Italy, GASAP – Belgium, ICLEI – Germany, Solawi Netzwerk – Germany. TVE – Hungary, URGENCI – France and Zambra – Spain

GEN EUROPE ECOVILLAGES GATHERING
2023-07-12 - 2023-07-17 | Germany
AN ESSENTIAL FESTIVAL FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN COMMUNITY LIVING AND REGENERATIVE LIFESTYLES.

Co-organised in 2023 by GEN Europe, GEN Germany and Nature Community, the Gathering is the annual ‘homecoming’ of the European ecovillage movement and a celebration and exploration of the rich variety of ecovillages and the possibilities they hold for the wider world.

RIPESS Europe is collaborating with GEN Europe for the second year and will be co-organising sessions during the next European Ecovillages gathering, taking place in Germany in 12-17 July 2023. Members are invited to participate!

Tickets for the European Ecovillage Gathering 2023 are now LIVE! Be careful not to miss out on the EARLY BIRD discount, only available for a limited time. We are also very excited to offer discounts for youth, children, Eastern Europe participants, groups and delegates.
The theme for this year is: TOGETHER IN A CHANGING WORLD.

Infused with Nature community’s values of love trust and cooperation, as well as space for more of us to celebrate together, this years’ gathering will be one not to miss!

Discover the programme and book your tickets at ecovillagegathering.org or the link in our bio!

International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
2023-09-10
The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), which forms the core of the WTO’s food and agriculture trade policies, continues to wreak havoc on people’s lives. Over the past 30 years, La Via Campesina has consistently highlighted the negative and devastating effects of WTO policies on both people and the planet. Whenever the WTO convened its ministerial meetings to advance these harmful policies, La Via Campesina’s organized peasant groups took to the streets to expose its falsehoods and deceit. As the World Trade Organization subsequently entered a state of limbo, numerous regional and bilateral free trade agreements began to proliferate, with many of them resembling the highly detrimental Agreement on Agriculture. Thus, whether with or without the WTO, global trade remains entangled in these opaque agreements, frequently negotiated behind closed doors without public consultation or debates.
During the last Ministerial meeting in Geneva in 2022, La Via Campesina declared that the time had come to dismantle the WTO, discard the Agreement on Agriculture, put an end to harmful free trade agreements and establish a new trade framework for global agricultural trade based on principles of food sovereignty, solidarity, and internationalism. A new framework that respects and upholds the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)!
It called on World Trade Organization member states, particularly those from the Global South, to lead the charge in creating this framework and establishing it as the bedrock of global trade. The global food crisis, resulting in increasing global hunger, exacerbated by speculative commodity trading practices, pandemics, conflicts and wars, is glaring evidence of a flawed global food system that primarily benefits transnational agribusiness. Numerous reports have highlighted how, even in the face of growing global hunger, a handful of large agribusiness corporations continued to accumulate profits through speculative practices. The Agreement on Agriculture serves as a pact to secure perpetual profits for agribusinesses, disregarding the suffering of peasants, individuals, and the environment.
For this reason, as we commemorate the International Day of Action against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements on September 10th, La Via Campesina will intensify this struggle for an alternative. We will lead the effort to construct this new framework through direct involvement of peasants and numerous other small-scale food producers. We will collaborate with our governments and civil society partners to generate political pressure in support of this new paradigm.

9th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise
2023-09-11 08:00 - 2023-09-14 17:00 | Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt (Germany), Nibelungenplatz 1 D-60318, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The EMES International Research Network, in partnership with Competence Center for Social Intervention Research at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences are pleased to announce the 9th EMES International Research Conference on the theme Act locally, change globally: Social enterprises and cooperatives for more resilient economies and societies at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
Act locally, change globally: Social enterprises and cooperatives for more resilient economies and societies.

RIPESS Europe GA 2023
2023-09-19 08:00 - 2023-09-21 17:00 | La Bergerie de Villarceaux, 95710 Chaussy, France
The 12th Congress and General Assembly (GA) of RIPESS Europe – Solidarity Economy Europe will be held from the 19th to 21th September 2023 at La Bergerie de Villarceaux (Paris, France), with the support of the FPH (Foundation for human progress). This GA is the opportunity to meet again and celebrate the 12th Anniversary of the network in a convivial atmosphere and to continue planning together following the Strategic orientations approved in September 2022.
As climate and ecological issues are becoming more and more central to our choice of destination, we thought of holding the GA every two years in Villarceaux : because of its location – easy to reach from most European countries – relatively central as well as the possibility of arriving in PARIS by train / bus / plane (if necessary) from most European cities.
The meeting focuses on the development of the European network 12 years from its foundation. New members are expected from different European countries and guests from other networks and organisations. Since it is a residential meeting, participants are expected to stay the whole time. Places are limited.

Babelica
2023-09-20 10:00 - 2023-09-22 21:30 | online
Babelica, the international online book fair of independent publishing, will take place from 20 to 22 September – 21 September is the Bibliodiversity Day!
Babelica is a unique and original project to promote bibliodiversity, conceived and hosted by the International Alliance of Independent Publishers.

European Day of Sustainable Communities 2023
2023-09-23 | online
The European Day of Sustainable Communities (EDSC), celebrated every September since 2017, showcases thousands of transformative initiatives across Europe.
This year’s campaign #JoinTheBigTable will bring the EDSC to the digital landscape for the first time, spreading the word to a wider audience. Citizens out there want to do something about the ecological emergency and we hope this campaign brings inspiration to learn more about communities and the crucial role they play for a sustainable future for all.

Planet Local Summit
2023-09-29 08:00 - 2023-10-01 17:00 | Bristol, UK
About

The Planet Local Summit is a project of Local Futures, an international nonprofit and pioneer of the localisation movement. The Summit will shine light on localisation as a solution-multiplier and bring attention to the worldwide grassroots movement that is unfolding. Central to this movement is a focus on the local food economy, but it also embraces local business alliances, decentralised renewable energy systems, local finance and more.
Building on Local Futures’ networking and movement-building endeavours over four decades, the Summit will bring people together face-to-face from every continent, with the aim of forging a broad, international and visionary agenda for change.

check the programme

UNTFSSE 4th Technical Symposium
2023-10-02 - 2023-10-03 | MONTREAL, MONTREAL, Canada
The 4th UNTFSSE technical symposium will take place on October 2-3, 2023, in Montreal, Canada, in partnership and through the support of the city of Montreal, the province of Quebec, and Caisse D’Économie Solidaire Desjardins. The event will contribute to strengthen UNTFSSE’s team and actions and build on the different members’ and observers’ broader expertise to promote the SSE and implement the UNGA Resolution. The symposium will bring together about 50 participants, including representatives of UNTFSSE member and observer organizations, partner invitees, and high-level representatives of Member States leading the charge on SSE.

Short Term Team Volunteering in Hungary
2023-10-17 - 2023-11-20 | Nagyvázsony, Hungary
For young people aged 18-30 who enjoy creative teamwork. We are seeking 12 volunteers for a 24 days period (21 Nonember – 14 December)

MedTOWN final conference
2023-11-07 08:00 - 2023-11-10 17:00 | Seville, Seville, Spain
MedTOWN final conference in Seville, Spain: Co-production & social and solidarity economy, permeating social policy in Mediterranean countries through social innovation.
This final conference marks the culmination of the European MedTOWN project , funded by the EU through the ENI CBC Med Program. It aims to bring together professionals, researchers, policymakers and stakeholders from Mediterranean countries to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices in the fields of social innovation, social policy, and the social and solidarity economy.

Making the European Green Deal strong and real: Harnessing the power of community-led initiatives and local governments
2023-11-07 14:30 - 18:00 | European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, Belgium
The event is ECOLISE’s main policy event, co-organised by ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability and the European Economic & Social Committee (EESC).
Local levels and citizens – especially marginalised people in the global south – are most impacted by the planetary crisis. This is the case also in Europe: local governments and citizens are the ones that will need to change most to answer the planetary crisis, but also to live with the impacts that cannot be undone. At the same time, European local governments and community-led initiatives have a huge – largely untapped – potential for impact through radically changed lifestyles and collective sustainability action.
The event will present a grassroots and local government perspective on the European Green Deal, with ECOLISE and ICLEI Europe sharing insights into the handprint of community-led initiatives and local governments in addressing the planetary crisis. We will discuss the need for radically different lifestyles and the political frameworks needed to ensure a good life within planetary boundaries for everyone. In deep conversations with policymakers, we will explore the systemic changes that are a prerequisite to harnessing the power of collective action and local governments, enabling local green deals that can lead to new socio-ecological contracts between citizens, local governments and nature.

European Social Economy Conference 2023
2023-11-13 09:00 - 2023-11-14 17:00 | Donostia-San Sebastian, Donostia-San Sebastián, España
The Ministry of Labour and Social Economy organize in Donostia-San Sebastián – Social Economy Capital of Spain 2023- on November 13th and 14th 2023 the European Conference “Social Economy: People, Planet, Action”, within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Recent years events at both European and global level, have highlighted the need for models of economic and social management that include economy, welfare, and environment. In this context, one of the strategic priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union is Social Economy, to build an economy centred on people and the planet.

Social Economy Konferenz
2023-11-23 13:00 - 19:30 | Universität Graz, Austria
Social Economy refers to economic practices that pursue social and/or environmental goals. It also includes democratic and participatory decision-making structures. The focus of the “Social Economy Enquete:Democracy” is the question of how the democratization of the economy can be advanced, especially in times of the erosion of democracy and the increase of authoritarian developments, and what contribution the Social Economy can make to this, what challenges the actors of the Social Economy are confronted with and what approaches to solutions would facilitate the implementation?

OECD Webinar: How can the social and solidarity economy help refugees along their journey?
2023-11-24 09:30 - 11:00 | online
As the number of forcibly displaced people and asylum seekers keeps growing around the world, new OECD work sheds light on how the specific values and characteristics of social and solidarity economy (SSE) entities provide high-quality responses to their needs and facilitate integration in host communities. The SSE can support access to rights, empowerment, social and labour market inclusion of refugees. Join this webinar with the UNHCR, SINGA and NESsT Poland to discover how the SSE plays a role in the steps along the way of refugees’ journey.
