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SERIOUS GAMES AND GAMIFICATION AS LEVERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF (COOPERATIVE) SKILLS
The potential of (serious) games or gamification for achieving greater learning successes – targeting also, but not exclusively young persons – is increasingly recognized by educators and training providers. Also in the field of skills development these elements are being increasingly used and a large variety of games/gamified elements has been or is being introduced…
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2021: A YEAR OF ACTION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMY – STATEMENTS BY REPRESENTATIVES OF EUROPEAN CITIES AND REGIONS
[:en] Despite all challenges and uncertainty at the beginning of this new year: local/regional governments and social economy enterprises won’t give up their vision of and initiatives for positive change and European solidarity. Here you are with a series of new year messages in which REVES Board members share their belief in the power of…
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An alternative approach to skills, employability and job creation: Women and territories at the centre
Webinar, 12 November 2020, 10-12 am Nothing brought them to light more clearly than the pandemic: The essential needs of territories, on one hand (social services, mutual help, access to medical equipment, food…), but also the enormous – and often untapped – potential and capacities cities, regions and their inhabitants are able to mobilise in…
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International alliance supporting position paper on digital transition/platform cooperatives
Digital transition is at the centre of proposals linked to the EU Recovery Plan, Cohesion Policy and other policies. But do we know which direction this transition should follow? A European alliance of commons activists, social economy networks and academics (La Coop des Communs – France ; Smart – Belgium ; Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya –…
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Covid-19: EU measures/Potential support and obstacles for the social and solidarity economy
In the current Covid-19 context, the European Commission has tabled a number of proposals to adapt EU legislation in order to rapidly make (financial) support and assistance available to all Member States. In this context, the European Commission decided, for instance, to loosen state aid rules and set up a State Aid Temporary Framework. The Coronavirus Response…
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TOWARDS A EUROPEAN ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTING THE EUROPEAN PILLAR OF SOCIAL RIGHTS: WORK-LIFE BALANCE: MASTER PARENTING IN WORK AND LIFE
Despite a number of recent (policy) initiatives at European level and in EU Member States, parents – and in particular mothers – still face a number of difficulties in combining (access to) work and family life. Moreover, the general employment rate of women is still considerably lower than that of men (by 11,6% in 2018). …
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European Parliament: Social Economy Intergroup re-launched!
On Tuesday 21st January 2020, the first internal meeting of the renewed Social Economy Intergroup (SEIG) took place at the European Parliament in Brussels to appoint the co-Chairs and vice-Chairs of the Intergroup and to draw up a strategy for the next five years. Five Members of the European Parliament were appointed as Co-Chairs of…
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THE SWEDISH ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES PROMOTES COOPERATION WITH THE SOCIAL ECONOMY
[:en] In the framework of a skills development project for Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) Anders Bro, Region Örebro County, has been commissioned to write a handbook with the aim of promoting municipalities and regions’ cooperation with social enterprises in Sweden. The handbook is intended to clarify the added value of municipalities…
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New European Commission will launch Action Plan for the Social Economy
[:en]A new European Commission took office on 1 December 2019. In front of the European Parliament, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had pledged to set the fight against climate change and a Green Deal for Europe at the very top of the EU policy agenda next other principles/elements such as the support for « an economy…
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INTEGRAL ECOLOGY FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN BRESCIA (IT)
[:en] Integral ecology for children’s rights is a project of experimentation and implementation of complex policies to address the issue of child educational poverty, starting from the pre-conditions that determine it. The complexity (in the literal sense) of these policies does not only refer to the type of interventions needed, but also to those who…
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