by JoseJuan | Jun 26, 2024 | Highlights
The UN General Assembly, at its meeting on June 19th, declared 2025 as the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC2025), to be celebrated under the theme “Cooperatives Build a Better World”, following the theme of the first ‘CoopsYear’, held in...
by JoseJuan | Jun 26, 2024 | Highlights
Juan Antonio Pedreño was re-elected for the fourth time as president of Social Economy Europe (SEE), an organization that encompasses 2.8 million entities, represents about 8% of the European GDP, and employs more than 13.6 million people. In Pedreño’s words,...
by JoseJuan | May 29, 2024 | Highlights
A hundred participants gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 11 and 12, 2024, for the Annual General Assembly of the European Disability Forum (EDF). The Slovenian National Disability Council – NSIOS – hosted the event, which included a pre-conference on...
by JoseJuan | May 29, 2024 | Highlights
After several years of intense negotiations, the EU institutions have agreed on the reform of the Union’s fiscal rules, which could signal a return to the austerity policies of the past decade. For Social Platform, the main platform for European social...
by JoseJuan | May 29, 2024 | Highlights
Micro and small social economy enterprises often lack resources and opportunities to engage in green transition processes. The transnational initiative “Skills for Transition: Increasing the Impact of Small Social Economy Enterprises (SKI.F.T.)” aims to...
by JoseJuan | May 29, 2024 | Highlights
CIRIEC International, the Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) of Costa Rica and CIRIEC-Costa Rica are pleased to convene the 34th CIRIEC International Congress on Public, Social and Cooperative Economy. The Congress will be held on 16, 17 and 18 October 2024 at the...