23e Rencontres du RIUESS Metz 2024

The climatic, social and economic challenges lead us to question the Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS) about the political role it could play to face them. Ten years after the law relating to the ESS of July 31, 2014, the XXIIIrd Meetings of the RIUESS 2024 propose, in this anniversary context, to take stock of it and to reflect on the social project that the ESS could bring to the time of systemic crises. The political projects of the ESS raise the question of desirable futures and the stories that can be formulated to see them come to pass. It is also with and on the territories that cooperation (in particular with the Territorial Economic Cooperation Centers – PTCE) is deployed, the territories and their translocal links seeming fertile ground for politicizing debates on the economy by potentially considering alliances with structures outside the ESS. Finally, it is through revisited modes of entrepreneurship and modes of economic development that remain to be traced that these futures can be envisaged.