3 Days of deep conversation, experimentation and connecting.

Radicals, rebels and revolutionaries: it’s time we join forces, cities are where we can make change happen.

OuiShare Fest is an international event that gathers entrepreneurs, thought leaders, activists and communities to lay the foundations of the future of cities.

3 Days of deep conversation, experimentation and connecting.

Radicals, rebels and revolutionaries: it’s time we join forces, cities are where we can make change happen.

OuiShare Fest is an international event that gathers entrepreneurs, thought leaders, activists and communities to lay the foundations of the future of cities.

3 Days of deep conversation, experimentation and connecting.

Radicals, rebels and revolutionaries: it’s time we join forces, cities are where we can make change happen.

OuiShare Fest is an international event that gathers entrepreneurs, thought leaders, activists and communities to lay the foundations of the future of cities.

The XVI Biennial Conference, ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will take place in the historical city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 10th to 14th July 2017.
The conference is expected to attract over 600 participants from all over the world: academics, practitioners, and others interested in the field of commons, common-pool resources, and cooperatives.

For further information visit http://www.iasc2017.org/.

Social Farming is a concrete process of cultural innovation spreading all over Europe and around the globe to fight against rising inequality and different form of social, cultural and economical exclusion. It is a collective process of democratisation able to attract my young adults who chose to go back to land, but with the mission to produced high  quality product and at the same time promoting human rights for those vulnerable people the in agriculture find a place of integration, rehabilitation, working inclusion.

The Euro+Med Agri Social Forum, to be held in Brussels on 11th July, shall facilitate free and democratic participation of all interested parties and citizens, supporting cultural, economic and social forces, as well as institutions at all levels, to gain a prominent role. Euro+Med Agri-Social Forum aims at the creation of a space for discussion and constructive dialogue on a European level as well as with the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean, among all entities and networks that operate in different ways in the field of Social and care farming.

The Forum want to be the place where to meet, to exchange, to develop long term strategies and joint initiatives, starting by the First sector, by agriculture, by the respect of all human being, promoted in their dignity. Today social farming is giving a concrete answer to old and new rising needs such as the process of social and working inclusion of refugees or what in Italy we call “after us” what is going to happen to our disables people after the death of their parents? .

The Event will be chaired by the Vice president of Eu parliament Davide Sassoli and will be attends amongst the other by Georgios Dassis | President of  EESC and Our Vice Minister of Agriculture on. Andrea Olivero and  by representatives coming from different organisation and countries.

In the afternoon from 2 pm to 4 pm at the CIA headquarters in Brussels Rue Philippe Le Bon 46, 1000 Brussels (Belgium) is planned a sharing round table in order to confront together about Euro + Med Agri Social Forum.

EURO+MED AGRI-SOCIAL FORUM aims at the creation of a space for discussion and constructive dialogue on a European level as well as with the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean, among all entities and networks that operate in different ways in the field of care farming. A space for political and cultural discussion and research that shall be able to:

1- Further spread the practice of care farming throughout European Countries as well as the Mediterranean area as a whole;

2- Promote care farming among Institutions as well as among European bodies dealing with Agricultural, Economic, Social, Healthcare and Work policies;

3- Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and good practices among different European entities;

4- Develop an efficient communication strategy aimed at raising awareness among citizens regarding the values, ethical principles and opportunities of this innovative welfare system.

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The XVI Biennial Conference, ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will take place in the historical city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 10th to 14th July 2017.
The conference is expected to attract over 600 participants from all over the world: academics, practitioners, and others interested in the field of commons, common-pool resources, and cooperatives.

For further information visit http://www.iasc2017.org/.

The XVI Biennial Conference, ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will take place in the historical city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 10th to 14th July 2017.
The conference is expected to attract over 600 participants from all over the world: academics, practitioners, and others interested in the field of commons, common-pool resources, and cooperatives.

For further information visit http://www.iasc2017.org/.

The XVI Biennial Conference, ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will take place in the historical city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands) from 10th to 14th July 2017.
The conference is expected to attract over 600 participants from all over the world: academics, practitioners, and others interested in the field of commons, common-pool resources, and cooperatives.

For further information visit http://www.iasc2017.org/.

The XXVIIth ESRS conference will be held in Krakow, Poland, July 24-27, 2017. The theme for the conference is ‘Uneven processes of rural change: on diversity, knowledge and justice’.

Europe is facing multiple processes of change that affect the rural in many ways: demographic evolutions, migration flows, renewed urban-rural relations, the rise and fall of alternative food networks vis-à-vis the seeming omnipresence of powerful food consortia, the changing power of constituencies of the rural, changing patterns of land use and valorizations of natural resources, rapid technological developments, etc. These change processes do not occur in isolation, but are embedded in a package of often interrelated external meta-trends (such as climate change, geo-politics, global markets) that position rural spaces in broader dynamics and result in uneven processes of change. The European Society for Rural Sociology has explored many of these processes in former conferences.

These uneven processes of rural change are interconnected and multi-level, involving multiple actors and governance approaches. They re-confirm the inadequacy of outdated concepts and dichotomies such as the urban-rural divide, the globalization-localization dichotomy or the disciplinary/academic segmentation of a complex reality. They are no longer able to capture the complex and systemic nature of today’s Europe, its countryside and the ongoing processes of change. We can question how we (in our multiple roles as scientists, citizens, policy makers, members of the business community or NGO representatives) can deal with this.

SIMRA’s partners Maria Nijnik (The James Hutton Institute), David Miller (The James Hutton Institute), Carla Barlagne (The James Hutton Institute), Laura Secco (Padova University), Elena Pisani (Padova University), Catie Burlando (Padova University), Riccardo Da Re (Padova University) and Tatiana Kluvankova (Slovak Academy of Sciences) will take part in the activities of the Working Group 21, titled Evaluation of “innovation” projects and partnerships: challenges, practical experiences and methodological innovations, where they will be talking about Co-constructing a new framework for evaluating social innovation in marginalized rural areas.

You can find the final programme here.

The XXVIIth ESRS conference will be held in Krakow, Poland, July 24-27, 2017. The theme for the conference is ‘Uneven processes of rural change: on diversity, knowledge and justice’.

Europe is facing multiple processes of change that affect the rural in many ways: demographic evolutions, migration flows, renewed urban-rural relations, the rise and fall of alternative food networks vis-à-vis the seeming omnipresence of powerful food consortia, the changing power of constituencies of the rural, changing patterns of land use and valorizations of natural resources, rapid technological developments, etc. These change processes do not occur in isolation, but are embedded in a package of often interrelated external meta-trends (such as climate change, geo-politics, global markets) that position rural spaces in broader dynamics and result in uneven processes of change. The European Society for Rural Sociology has explored many of these processes in former conferences.

These uneven processes of rural change are interconnected and multi-level, involving multiple actors and governance approaches. They re-confirm the inadequacy of outdated concepts and dichotomies such as the urban-rural divide, the globalization-localization dichotomy or the disciplinary/academic segmentation of a complex reality. They are no longer able to capture the complex and systemic nature of today’s Europe, its countryside and the ongoing processes of change. We can question how we (in our multiple roles as scientists, citizens, policy makers, members of the business community or NGO representatives) can deal with this.

SIMRA’s partners Maria Nijnik (The James Hutton Institute), David Miller (The James Hutton Institute), Carla Barlagne (The James Hutton Institute), Laura Secco (Padova University), Elena Pisani (Padova University), Catie Burlando (Padova University), Riccardo Da Re (Padova University) and Tatiana Kluvankova (Slovak Academy of Sciences) will take part in the activities of the Working Group 21, titled Evaluation of “innovation” projects and partnerships: challenges, practical experiences and methodological innovations, where they will be talking about Co-constructing a new framework for evaluating social innovation in marginalized rural areas.

You can find the final programme here.