The final week of November marked the International Seminar in Athens titled “May the Change Be With You.” Hosted at the Impact Hub, the seminar brought together over thirty participants, including young individuals interested in Transformative Economies, professionals engaged in the Social and Solidarity Economy, educators, and representatives from various organizations. The primary focus was […]
Following the project
6th Transnational Webinar: Towards a feminist economy that puts care at the center
At the demand of the local groups during the mid-term evaluation of the project, we organised a new transnational webinar to better understand some concepts of Transformative Economies. If Feminist Economies can constitute an alternative to the analyses of conventional economics and to the structural deficiencies of the current capitalist, heteropatriarchal and racist system, the […]
Why Empathy matters ?
Why Empathy matters as we build the road towards positive social transformation & How can we develop it into our organisations? As we dream, plan and create tools for social transformation, it is important to respect all beings and nature and pay attention to the value of relationships between all members of our organisations. Only […]
Sustainable tourism
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 […]
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 […]