RIPESS Europe

Ripess Europe General Assembly
2024-06-13 09:00 - 2024-06-15 20:30 (Europe/Paris) | L’ Espace, Chem. du 23-Août 1, 1205, Genève, Switzerland
The 13th Ripess Europe General Assembly 2024 will be held on 13-15 of June in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the most important yearly meeting for the Solidarity Economy Europe Network since it is a unique opportunity to meet and inspire each other through structured and more convivial moments. This year the topics will revolve around a new shared-governance proposal scheme, uptakes on decided priorities and projects, ways to strengthen our contribution to the communities and societies, advocacy procedures and policies with citizens’ decisive participation.
This year is also a festive time since our hosting member APRES-GE is celebrating its 20 years of Solidarity Economy activism and networking, thus we will actively participate in our members’ celebration moments.

RTES MEETING: “LAND & SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY (ESS)”
2024-06-07 09:30 - 16:30 | Métropole du Grand Lyon, Lyon, France
The Network of Territorial Communities for a Solidarity Economy (RTES) invites you to a national meeting around the theme “Land & Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS)” organized at the Métropole du Grand Lyon on Friday June 7, 2024.
To accompany the upcoming updated reissue of our RepèrESS “Access to land for ESS stakeholders – Issues and levers for local authorities” (March 2019) , the RTES is organizing a dedicated day, an opportunity to discuss together on the place of the ESS in public development strategies, but also on more specific themes such as solidarity land (public and private), financing, etc.

Economy for The Common Good International Conference - ECGIC 2024
2024-06-03 08:00 - 2024-06-05 17:00 | Municipal Theatre De Harmonie, Ruiterskwartier 4, 8911 BP, Leeuwarden, Fryslân, Netherlands
During three engaging days, we will the most impactful future-fit economic models, learn from successful sustainable practices and tackle the question: “How can regions leverage a multi-stakeholder perspective to shift from quantitative GDP-led growth towards sustainable growth of their non-monetary ‘area capital’?”

Together, we will develop a manifesto containing concrete steps that can be taken by businesses, governments and civil organizations to future-proof their regional economics, complementing the ideas of the recent Beyond Growth 2023 conference by providing more tangible insights.

1st International Prosumer Economy Conference
2024-05-29 08:00 - 2024-05-31 17:00 | Kadir Has University, Cibali, Kadir Has Cd., 34083 Cibali, İstanbul, Turkey
As the Prosumer Economy Society, in collaboration with Kadir Has University, we are coming together in Istanbul on May 29-30-31, 2024, to shed light on the future of the economy. At this conference, you will have the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of the Prosumer Economy and its distinguishing features from alternative economic models. We look forward to having you among us to strengthen and grow our community.
Stay updated with the latest news by following our social media accounts!
We look forward to welcoming you to Istanbul in May 2024!

Discover the Marseille encounters
2024-04-26 - 2024-04-28 | Friche de la Belle de Mai, 41 Rue Jobin, Marseille, 13003, France
For three days, dozens of workshops, conferences and debates will be held at the Friche and in nearby venues. It will also be an occasion for Marseille’s associations to showcase their work, and a place where unexpected encounters will be possible, particularly on the roof terrace, which offers a magnificent view over the city and the Mediterranean.

How to and why campaign for the European elections
2024-04-25 16:00 - 18:00 | online
Would you like to engage in the campaign for the European elections? Are you looking for ideas on how to get involved? Would you like to learn from other activists and NGOs about their plans for the campaign?
Join ECOLISE and our members online on 25 April 16:00-18:00 (CET) to discuss why and how to campaign for the European elections.
This session is a capacity-building and networking opportunity for ECOLISE members and campaign partners of the Time for Collective Action Manifesto, open to all interested parties. You can expect to learn and exchange insights on:

Political campaigning (how to) at local, national, and European levels
ECOLISE’s Time for Collective Action Campaign and our members’ citizen-led initiatives
The significance of European elections for climate and biodiversity action
Synergies with other campaigns targeting the European elections

Anniversary Webinar for the UNGA Resolution
2024-04-18 13:30 - 14:45 | online
On April 18, 2023, The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the resolution “Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development ”. One year later, the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy is hosting an online webinar on April 18, 2024 from 1:30 – 2:45 pm CEST to highlight progress that has been made at the international and regional level. Presentations will be followed by a brief discussion. Simultaneous translation will be available in English, French and Spanish.

Remaking the Economy
2024-04-17 14:00 - 15:30 | online
Remaking the Economy:
How to Change Our Stories about the Economy
What are the stories that we need to tell to better understand our economy, and lay the groundwork for building a more inclusive, democratic world? Storytelling—the construction of spoken or written accounts of a series of events that we tell each other to understand our world—offers critical tools to build movements, upend myths that hold us back, and construct cultures that can sustain a democratic economy.

Let’s Celebrate CSA Day! Call for Stories
2024-02-22 | Fryslân
In the midst of global challenges and uncertainties, CSAs and LSPAs have stood resilient, cultivating not only crops but also hope for a better tomorrow.
While we approach #CSADay 2024, we invite you to share your experience by telling us about your stories, journeys, and triumphs!

Format: Written stories, or short videos.
500 words for written submissions; 5-7 minutes for videos.
Submissions can be in any language, with an English translation if possible.
Deadline: 15/02/204

World Social Forum 2024
2024-02-15 - 2024-02-19 | Katmandu, Nepal
We, the people of the planet, are currently facing an unprecedented environmental crisis coupled with rising inequality, widespread food insecurities, majoritarian violence, after effects of the last pandemic and the threat of a future one, and escalating tensions between major powers. In fact, humanity is on the brink of multi-faceted calamities leading to the destruction of its own survival. Given the threat is real and urgent, the ideals of the new world order that rests upon sustainability, dignity, co- existence, equality, and equity must be enacted and actualized. With the pledge of ‘Another world is possible’ the World Social Forum (WSF) emerges as a beacon of hope, more essential than ever before. Despite the adversities, we believe that change for a just world is possible. The World Social Forum (WSF) will discuss the means of changes in Kathmandu, Nepal in February 2024.

3º Webinar: The SSE at the international level
2023-12-13 16:00 - 17:30 | online
Reas Red de Redes would like to invite you to the webinar that they are organising. This is the 3rd session of the Cycle of webinars that they started in 2022 to deepen on the importance of working in the international sphere, the need to weave alliances and the generation of knowledge from a south-north vision, in a context in which the SSE has been recognized as a driver of change to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
This seminar seeks to make visible the current moment of the SSE in the framework of the United Nations resolution last April “Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development”.
Simultaneous translation will be available ESP/EN and EN/ESP.

Transformations.Talk “MES Occitanie (Mouvement pour l’économie solidaire Occitanie)“
2023-11-30 17:00 - 20:00 | online
For everyone interested in CSX, CSA and Commoning,
on 30 November, we have invited Léopol Dauriac and Bérénice Dondeye to a “Transformations.Talk”. They will tell us about the French network “MES Occitanie” (Mouvement pour l’économie solidaire Occitanie), which is the network of the solidarity economy in the Occitania region of France. It is a member of MES France and co-founder of Ripess Europe

About “Transformations.Talk”
There will be an impulse from theory or practice, followed by a discussion based on the three ways of NOW-NET https://now-net.org/, CSX criteria, other design principles to discuss and move the questions / ideas. Because every organisation, every community, every project brings individual questions that cannot always be solved or discussed within a group. But within a movement they can!

Independant media event: let's free the information!
2023-11-30 | Paris, Paris, France
This initiative, proposed by the Free Press Fund, is a response to the Presidential General Assembly on Information called for by the Élysée Palace. We look forward to seeing you on 30 November for a major public meeting in Paris, which will be followed by regional events.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
2023-09-10 | Fryslân
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.

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!

ICA Committee on Cooperative Research meeting 2023
2023-07-10 08:00 | Centre of Expertise for Cooperative Entrepreneurship, Leuven, Belgium
https://ica-ccr2023.com/

Welcome to Leuven!

KU Leuven is proud to announce that the next ICA CCR Conference will be held from 10 until 13 July 2023 in the beautiful city of Leuven, located in the centre of Belgium, just 25 kilometres from Brussels, the capital of Europe.

The ICA CCR Conference is hosted by the Centre of Expertise for Cooperative Entrepreneurship (KCO KU Leuven), a research and teaching centre that brings together various stakeholders from the field of cooperative entrepreneurship with the aim of advancing knowledge, proficiency, and legitimacy.

The overall theme of the 2023 conference is ‘Innovating in cooperative governance. Governing cooperative innovation’. The conference will bring together academia, researchers, and cooperative practitioners from all over the world, as well as policy-makers at the EU and international level, to discuss the latest research and policy developments in the area of cooperative governance.

We look forward meeting you in Leuven!

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

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
