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6th Int. Conference “Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons”

from 4. November 2026 to 6. November 2026, Lisbon, Portugal

Hacking Our Common Future: Transnational cooperation between community-led initiatives in a fragmented world Call for Contributions The conference will take place from the 4th to 6th of November 2026 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte) in Lisbon, Portugal. This year’s theme is “Hacking Our Common Future: Transnational cooperation between community-led initiatives in a fragmented world“. The […]

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New Economics Foundation, England

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British ‘think tank’, which promotes economic and ecological justice. NEF has been the UK’s leading research organisation for money, credit and complementary currencies since 1986. www.neweconomics.org

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Sharing Economy and Gift Economy

The American philosopher Charles Eisenstein has popularized the idea of ‘living in the gift’. This means a culture in which people share with each other without expecting something in return. Large areas of our lives only work through the gift economy: most work done in families works on the principle of the ‘gift economy’, for […]

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fairventure

Fairventure is „an initiative and a network for ‘cultural-creative’ people to come together undogmatically and learn about each other“. The goal of Fairventure is to create an overview of the commonalities between various disciplines and specialisms and make them visible. The idea of Fairventure was substantially inspired by the ideas of Paul Hawken, who described […]

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