Who we are
RIPESS Europe – Solidarity Economy Europe, was born from the synergy produced by the meetings of the Globalisation of Solidarity organised by the intercontinental network RIPESS Intercontinental, the first of which took place in Lima in 1997. The 4th International Forum of “Globalisation of Solidarity”, Lux’09, which took place in Schifflange in April 2009, led to the launching of a dynamic by establishing trust and shared-knowledge between networks of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) at continental and intercontinental levels. During this meeting, Eric Lavillunière (INEES) and Christine Gent (WFTO) initiated the structuring of a European RIPESS platform.
In Barcelona, in 2011, RIPESS Europe was born. It included representatives of networks from Belgium, Catalonia, France, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania and Germany.
News from Europe—
Ripess Europe deepens its roots in the continent after the general assembly
Country representatives [France (APES, MESS Occitanie, UFISC, Université Paris 8, MES France), Portugal (REDPES), Luxembourg (INEES), Poland (FAIRTRADE POLSKA), Germany (CSX), Italy (RIES Italia), Switzerland (Après Genève; Après Vaud), Norway (Nedenfra / From below CO/Tøyen Unlimited), Czech Republic (EKUMENIC ACADEMY), Croatia (ZMAG), Hungary (KIFESZ / FAKETE) and Greece (DOCK)]; together with representatives from GSEF, Social Economy Europe, SSE International Forum [...]
Green and fire; commons, ruralities and mountains in FESS23
Ripess Intercontinental returns from Sort with a heart full of admiration and desire after having travelled last Saturday to the Pallars Sobirá, an area in the Pyrenees watered by the Noguera Pallaresa River in Catalonia. In Sort, theXES (Xarxa d’Economía Solidària de Catalunya), together with the local SSE networks XES Pirineu i Aran, XES Garrotxa, XES Ripollès, XES Empordà and [...]
Towards the strengthening of SSE ecosystems at all levels: Co-construction of public policies for the promotion of SSE, and advocacy strategies and tools from local to global.
On Tuesday 14th of December, RIPESS members and other SSE actors from around the world got together to exchange on advocacy strategies and collaboration with local, national and international policymakers for co-constructing public policies to strengthen SSE ecosystems around the world. The Director of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation, Carme Gual, together with Shigeru Tanaka, joint-coordinator of RIPESS, officially [...]