Integrating the values of Transformative Economies into our daily way of life is essential to make real changes and support local initiatives. In the face of our detractors, we want to show that the paradigm proposed by Transformative Economies is not only desirable but also viable. That’s why the YITEG partnership gathered a list of […]
Transformative Economies Blog
What is Agroecology ?
Within the YITEG project (Youth Impacting Transformative Economies through Game-design), we want to explain and enlighten different branches of Transformative Economies. Feminist economies, Communitarian economy, Commons, Social and Solidarity Economy have been identified by the local groups which worked on the Transformative Economies. But why is agroecology a part of the social and agricultural transformation? […]
5th Transnational Webinar: create impact with the YITEG game
On June 11, we held the 5th International Webinar of the YITEG project, which was attended by 20 people from the different countries involved in the project. Under the title “How to create impact with the YITEG game“, we were able to reflect together on the new phase in which we find ourselves and the […]
The Communitarian Economy
With the YITEG project (Youth Impacting Transformative Economies through Game design), we want to put the light on the branch of the Communitarian Economy, as an alternative to the capitalist paradigm. Overall, the Communitarian Economy refers to all activities that are developed without depending on the state or the market, i.e., through self-management. We refer […]
Social and Solidarity Economy
The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is an innovative economy anchored to the territory, which generates co-production of knowledge, goods and social services on the basis of cooperation (rather than competition) between different actors and sectors. The social and solidarity economy is a broad concept used to indicate organizations and businesses working in the field […]
Meeting in Saint Etienne !
The purpose of this meeting Halfway into the YITEG project, we decided to get together for 2 days, on April 11th and 12th, in order to evaluate our work so far and at the same time agree on how to keep going together. Being in a consortium of 5 partners from different countries is very […]
4th Transnational Webinar : let’s talk about The Change!
The 4th Transnational Webinar, entitled “Let’s talk about The Change”, has taken place on March the 5th to reunite all local groups together and discuss about the game. It was also the occasion for new participants in the project to meet the other members belonging to this international community. As usual, we began the session […]
What are Commons?
Within the Erasmus+ project YITEG (Youth Impacting Transformative Economies through Game-design), we consider the Commons and commoning as one of the main branches of Transformative Economies. Commons are shared resources of any kind. The goal of the commons and of commoning is to provide goods and ideas to everyone, without any discrimination. The concept of […]
Game Design as an educational tool – international training in Reggio Calabria
The training course in a nutshell! The first week of November, the consortium of the YITEG project developed a transnational training course in Reggio-Calabria (Italy) opened to young people involved in the different local groups of the project. Through non-formal methodologies and a learning-by-doing approach, the participants were able to tackle the subject of Transformative […]
Third transnational webinar
The 3rd international YITEG webinar was held on December, 5th Tuesday. It was titled “At the crossroad! Reconnecting international community and preparing for the new YITEG year” and the idea was first to play a little and remember the days of the training in Reggio Calabria, so to reconnect our YITEG community. Then, we had […]