Mark your calendar and join the Social Enterprise Council of Canada, in partnership with local agencies, at the sixth annual national Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise in Winnipeg, Manitoba from Wednesday, May 10 to Friday, May 12, 2017.

The 4th International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies, organized by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC, will take place from 10th to 14th May 2017, at the Parque Tecnológico Nou Barris.

Preparations already began and in the early months of 2017 there will be national meetings to decide the themes to be discussed in the second EFSSE (SSE European Forum) promoted by the GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium)

We are pleased to announce that the 2017 Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD) will be held this June 09-11, 2017 at Fordham University Lincoln Center in New York City in partnership with NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives. The ECWD is a biannual conference of nearly 400 people that provides practical tools, networking, and strategies […]

The VI International Gathering of “The Workers’ Economy” will take place in Argentina between August 30 and September 2, 2017. An opening event will be held at the worker-recuperated Hotel BAUEN in the City of Buenos Aires, and the rest of the gathering will continue at the facilities of the Textil Pigüé Cooperative, a worker-recuperated factory in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires. We invite the participation of all workers from recuperated and self-managed enterprises, cooperatives and social and popular economy organizations, as well as trade unions and academics interested in and committed to self-management practices and the project of a new workers' economy.

The second European meeting of Independent Media and SSE will occur from the 9th to the 11th of February 2018 at La Bergerie de Villarceaux (an eco-farm near Paris).

The Innovations in Participatory Democracy Conference will take place on March 8 - 10, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona - presented by the Center for the Future of Arizona, the Jefferson Center, the Katal Center, the Participatory Budgeting Project, the Participatory Governance Initiative at Arizona State University, Phoenix Union High School District, and the Policy Jury Group.

This week hundreds of activists will gather in Wigan for ‘CTRLshift: An Emergency Summit For Change’ – a three day conference exploring the uncertainties and opportunities of our times, convened by around 20 grassroots, social change organisations.