Call for contributions
Appel à contributions / Convocatoria de comunicaciones
Deadline for applications: 20 December 2024
The Global Social and Solidarity Economy Forum, to be held in Bordeaux from 29 to 31 October 2025, will be an important step on the
road towards achieving the sustainable development goals.
With five years to go until the 2030 Agenda, it should enable us to bring civil society and local and regional authorities together to get things moving, challenge decision-makers and speed up the transition.
This is all the more crucial given the numerous threats facing the world today: wars, authoritarian regimes, economic disorder, social conflicts, ecological disasters and so on. The aim is to show that another world is possible and that it already exists. The SSE is the bearer of a new narrative that it is up to citizens to write through their initiatives.
The scientific committee, made up of national and international researchers and players has defined a general theme opening the door to various sub-themes, the content of which will be fed by contributions from all over the world.
GENERAL THEME:
“The SSE, a precondition for a just transition towards resilient territories1 and the well-being of their inhabitants“
Contributions due for 20 December should be particularly attentive to:
→ integrate an international dimension, in particular North/South dialogue
→ mobilize young people, who are one of the main forces for change
→ strengthen democracy and empowerment in our economies and societies
They must relate to one of the themes below.
- Territory: a space which can be on different scales, covering various dimensions such as economic, political, cultural, geographic and demographic ↩︎
SUB-THEMES
PART 1: ACTING FOR THE TERRITORIES
1. Just transition
- Commons, conflicts and democratic governance
- Ecological transition, nature based solutions and SSE sectors
- Agri-food systems, transition and sovereignty
- Energy transition equity
- Digital commons and data collection
2. Financing
- The blended finance of SSE (sponsorship, CSR, private sector/SSE partnerships, etc.)
- The role of public and local authorities in financing the SSE (subsidies, public procurement…)
- Sustainable finance and SSE (solidarity finance, impact finance, ethical finance, inclusive finance, etc.)
3. Co-construction and innovations of public policies
- Public sector/SSE partnerships, development of networks and public policies from local to international level
- Territorial Responsibility of Enterprises and place-based strategies
- International partnerships, NGOs and capacity-building
PART 2: ACTING FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS
4. Inclusive prosperity
- Dialogue construction, peace and migrations
- Solidarity, social justice and fight against inequalities
- Health, social protection and care services
5. Decent work
- Workplace democracy
- The job guarantee and creating decent jobs
- From informal economies to SSE
6. Empowerment
- Education, training and economic citizenship
- Gender and SSE
- Knowledge and capacities of vulnerable people
- Collective empowerment of young people
PART 3 (transversal): FORESIGHT
7. Foresight and research
- Social innovations and participatory research
- Socio-environmental indicators, measuring and monitoring social impact and SSE
- Post-growth scenarios, utopias and SSE narratives
