{"id":2397,"date":"2016-10-07T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2021-02-24T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:16:42","slug":"uemssi-in-besancon-a-space-to-build-convergences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/uemssi-in-besancon-a-space-to-build-convergences\/","title":{"rendered":"UEMSSI in Besan\u00e7on, a space to build convergences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer University of the Social Movements and International Solidarity (UEMSSI) organized jointly by Attac France and CRID, \u00a0took place from 6 to 9 July 2016 in Besan\u00e7on, under the heading &#8220;From utopias to alternatives: let&#8217;s act together&#8221;. The report of the whole meeting <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/france.attac.org\/actus-et-medias\/salle-de-presse\/article\/universite-d-ete-des-mouvements-sociaux-et-de-la-solidarite-internationale-2016\">can be seen here<\/a><\/strong> (in French).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1,000 people gathered to participate in more than 80 workshops, debates or training offered during these four days, built around a common theme: the transformation of our utopias in alternatives. Partners from 15 countries have also responded to our invitation.<\/p>\n<p>RIPESS Europe, thanks to its french member, the MES Movement for solidarity economy, contributed to the development and animation of a seminar (a series of three workshops) with other networks, also\u00a0dedicated to social transformation.\u00a0The module titled &#8220;Alternatives, their construction and their implementation&#8221; received a good turnout, with about 50 people from different organizations, and a dense and lively discussion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2323\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2323\" class=\"wp-image-2323 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/europe.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/Crid-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"crid\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/Crid-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/Crid-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/Crid-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/10\/Crid.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the workshops took place on the grass&#8230; because of the heat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Josette Combes for the MES spoke about\u00a0&#8220;what democracy and what emancipation in alternative initiatives.&#8221; Jason Nardi intervened with examples of ethical finance initiatives\u00a0and, finally, a summary on the strengths and challenges emerging from the seminar (see here\u00a0an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/france.attac.org\/actus-et-medias\/les-videos\/article\/alternativons-nous\">interview<\/a><\/strong> with Jason at\u00a0the University).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">These forms of cooperation within a temporary grouping of structures that are all dedicated to the social, environmental, and economic transition, open to participation on\u00a0the convergences present in both action plans of MES\u00a0and RIPESS Europe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>[Article by Josette Combes]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer University of the Social Movements and International Solidarity (UEMSSI) organized jointly by Attac France and CRID, \u00a0took place from 6 to 9 July 2016 in Besan\u00e7on, under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[660,795,796,217,794,668],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-attac","tag-besancon","tag-convergences","tag-social-movements","tag-summer-university","tag-universite-dete","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}