Transformative Economies Blog

In the Poble–sec district of Barcelona, ​​we had a delicious dinner. The activity has been stimulated by the Motor Group made up of 10 fantastic women. It was an activity of Social and Solidarity economy that generates a lot of social benefit almost without the need for money. 35 volunteers recovered and prepared the food […]

Adel is carrying out a project to allow access to sports practice for audiences who do not necessarily have the financial means to register in a sports club or a sports hall. There are issues of health, nutrition for a sport without getting injured. Katia works in schools and leisure centers with children. Its role […]

The local group in Barcelona from SEEds project met for a cooking workshop of a typical Senegalese dish: the Mafé! The team had all the necessary ingredients to have a good time; good mood, sunshine and a motivated group curious to learn about the Mafé recipe! The recipe is simple; * Start with a mime […]

Why is poverty so difficult to eradicate? Why are plans to counteract it almost always ineffective? Fragility, vulnerability, adult and educational poverty are the not obvious, but very probable, outcome of the concomitance of two factors: the weakness of the individual’s “internal capacities”, and the lack of resources, materials and immaterial, to which they have […]

Kaléido’Scop is a cooperative company, named in France as” SCOP” (Société Coopérative et Participative = Participative and cooperative enterprise). A long history is behind this old movement of SSE but still the economic model of SCOP remains marginal. In the family of cooperative companies, we also have SCIC (Société Coopérative d’Intérêt Collectif = Cooperative enterprises […]

The group of local young people from the SSEds4youth project in Barcelona visited the Top Manta space in March. During the visit, they interviewed Lamine Bathily, spokesman for the Mantero Union. The origins of the Mantero Union date back to the summer of 2015, the Manteros fed up with the police persecution decided to organize themselves to face the situation. They joined […]

Thanks to the reputation acquired, and to the growing mobilization of Italian society on the themes of sustainable development, the Sustainable Development Festival represents a further step to encourage Italy to achieve the 2030 Agenda. The Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), that brings together almost 300 organizations from the economic and social spheres, organizes […]

At the end of March, the Greek group of SSEds project had the chance to meet “The Beehive Community” (https://the-beehive.org/en/), a newly formed cooperative active in Athens. Our intention was to learn about why they chose to start this path together, how they took the first steps and what helped them in this process. The […]

The group of local young people from the SSEds4youth project in Barcelona visited the Mescladís space on February 16. During the visit, they interviewed Martín Habiague, founder and director of the social project that celebrated 15 years of work for social justice and the right to migrate. Many years ago Martín migrated from Argentina to […]