{"id":5465,"date":"2019-06-24T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2019-06-24T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:00:24","slug":"the-way-forward-for-our-future-next-stop-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/the-way-forward-for-our-future-next-stop-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"The way forward for our future\u2026 next stop, Lyon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jason Nardi (RIPESS Europe coordination)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back to all that we\u2019ve done, as a network (of\nnetworks), in the last year and a half\u2026 we can say that it is quite an accomplishment,\nthanks to the work of many engaged people and organisations.  Beyond the many meetings, different projects,\nnew alliances, participation in campaigns, online training as well as peer\neducation activities, we\u2019ve started to have more recognition by public\ninstitutions, foundations, academia and professional education structures who\nare interested in working with the network of solidarity economy initiatives\nthat RIPESS Europe represents. From the Global Social Economy Forum last\nOctober in Bilbao, to the next UN SSE Task Force conference in Gen\u00e8ve this\nmonth, to the European elections campaigns with allied networks (Europe we want\nand Fair Times) and the Transformative Cities Award (which is going to launch\nthe Atlas of Utopias in Lyon during our General Assembly conference), or the\nUrban Alternatives mapping\u2026 to many other local and regional initiatives that\ntook place throughout the whole year in which RIPESS Europe and its members\nwere involved.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take for instance the North Europe Solidarity Economy Meeting\n(NESEM) in Helsinki \u2013 with people coming from Russia as well, a first attempt\nto bring together and network SSE in the Nordic countries. Something similar is\nnow starting in Central Eastern Europe, with the Erasmus+ project BUSSE: Building\nUp SSE.  Another project is continuing\nthe work on Vocational Education and Training in several European countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or take the independent, cooperative and alternative media\nmeeting in Villarceaux (near Paris) \u2013 connecting some of the many magazines and\nother media who give visibility and voice to the \u201cother economies\u201d and are\nthemselves in most cases SSE enterprises, discussing about their different\nbusiness models and sustainability as well as possible collaborations and\nexchanges.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During last year, a group of members worked together on a\nReport to promote the culture of SSE in Greece \u2013 as technical assistance to the\nGreek government, and today our Greek member DOCK has become one of the support\ncenters of SSE in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our communities of practice and social solidarity economic\ninitiatives are multiplying and spreading all over Europe, in very different\npolitical and legal contexts. The challenges and difficulties we are facing\ntoday are related to global issues (such as climate change, migration and\nfinancial crisis, the future of work\u2026 and of the planet), but find similar\nsolutions in many territories, where relocalising the economy and\nco-constructing public policies have become more than experimental practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we need to deepen and broaden the trans-local exchanges\namong these communities and also foster the convergence and collaboration among\ndifferent social economic actors, grassroot movements, public institutions,\ncultural and artistic \u201ccommoners\u201d, systemic change funders and investors, and\nall those who are actively engaged in the necessary transformation of our\nfinancial and economic system.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not by chance that RIPESS Europe is one of the main promoters of the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies (WSFTE Barcelona 2020). And it is not by chance that our next General Assembly will be in a city like Lyon, which is actively promoting SSE in many different ways (see it\u2019s sustainable development report<\/a> (in French) and the Label \u201cVille equitable et durable\u201d). It will be connected to an international meeting called \u201cDialogues en Humanit\u00e9\u201d and preceded by a \u201cTown hall debate\u201d (4th of July \u2013 see program here<\/a><\/strong>) on Cities and SSE – how to inspire and learn from each other and develop municipal policies which are transforming our communities by changing economic practices in many sectors such as food, energy, trade, transportation, housing, tourism, health, finance, culture, production and consumption circuits, etc. The road ahead is long and uphill, but we are getting better at paving the way(s) and sharing the ride. Next stop, Lyon.\u00a0 Will you join us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jason Nardi (RIPESS Europe coordination) Looking back to all that we\u2019ve done, as a network (of networks), in the last year and a half\u2026 we can say that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7596,"featured_media":5211,"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":[598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edito-es","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\/5465"}],"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\/7596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}