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.
- Ireland
- Portugal
- France
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Romania
- Greece
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- Germany
- Croatia
- Lithuania
- Bulgaria
- Luxembourg
- United Kingdom
- Hungary
- Austria
- Macedonia
- Spain
- Italy
- Russia
- AAE Cooperative from Ireland
- ANIMAR, REDPES, APDES, CRESACOR from Portugal
- MES FRANCE / MES OCCITANIE / UFISC / APES / CNLRQ / ESSPLICITE / SOCIOECO
/ RIUESS / RTES from France - APRES GE / APRÈS VAUD / MONNAIE LEMAN from Switzerland
- SAW B from Belgium
- CRIES from Romania
- DOCK from Greece
- EKUMENIK ACADEMY / FAIRBIO COOP from Czech Republic
- FAIRTRADE POLAND from Poland
- CSX NETWORK / FORUM SOLIDARISCHE OKONOMIE / TECHNET BERLIN / NETZ from Germany
- ZMAG from Croatia
- GREEN LIBERTY from Latvia
- IDEAS FACTORY from Bulgaria
- TRANSITION MINETT from Luxemburg
- SOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK from UK
- PROFILANTROP ASSOCIATION / KIFESZ / FAKETE / SOLIDARITY ECONOMY CENTER from Hungary
- VSOK from Austria
- OUR GOOD EARTH from Macedonia
- XES / REAS from Spain
- RIES / SOLIDARIUS from Italy
- TRAVA from Russia
- URGENCI / DUNIA – International networks
News from Europe—
Care and those who provide it, the basis of life… And of the social solidarity economy
Published in Spanish in the newspaper El Salto and on the website of REAS red de redes. In the framework of the feminist mobilisations on #8M, and as highlighted in the recent Intergenerational Dialogue on Care and Social Solidarity Economy, organised by the Gender Commission of RIPESS, care is not only an individual responsibility, but a collective and public issue. [...]
Takeaways from Intergenerational Dialogue to Promote Care and the Social and Solidarity Economy
Success at the meeting organized by the RIPESS Gender Commission, with more than 300 registered participants. https://youtu.be/OlqPw8GYAvg https://youtu.be/OlqPw8GYAvg On 29 January, it was held the intergenerational dialogue ‘And for you, what is care?’ . The first webinar of the year on care and the Social Solidarity Economy was organised by the Gender Commission of RIPESS Intercontinental and in collaboration with [...]
‘Play the change you want to see in the world’: Learning and spreading Transformative Economies through playing
Last November, Athens became the place chosen to launch the final version of ‘The Change’, a board game in which nobody wins and everybody learns about Transformative Economies and real projects that have been collected in this virtual map of initiatives. This game is already an educational tool that seeks to bring the principles of the Social and Solidarity Economy [...]
