Training Academy 2023 : Social Economy to advance a socially and environmentally just economic model SOLIDAR members from the Social Affairs Forum and other partners celebrated the Training Academy 2023 on 12th and 13th June. The event revolved around the topic of Social Economy (SE) and was co-organised with SOLIDAR’s Belgian member Pour la Solidarité,…
The acceleration of extreme weather events highlights more than ever the need for a transition towards a carbon-neutral economy and society. Yet, such a transition, which is needed within a span of just a few decades, is not without risks. Such upheavals could mean that workers in sectors undergoing rapid change could find their jobs threatened if nothing is done. As…
SOLIDAR at the Beyond Growth Conference 2023 – How to build a socio-ecological welfare state? What does it mean concretely to move towards a socio-ecological state? What social and fiscal policies are needed? And how can it guarantee all the elements necessary to a good life in sustainable economic systems? On 15 May 2023, SOLIDAR’s…
As the EU prepares to publish its European Voluntary Review of the SDGs (EUVR), representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs) from a broad range of sectors across Europe came together to assess Europe’s SDG progress by contributing to the finalisation of a civil society spotlight report. More than 40 civil society organisations from across Europe…
Today the European Year of Skills (EYS) kicks off with the European Year of Skills Festival. The EYS will run until May 2024, and aims to tackle the mismatch between unemployment and education. SOLIDAR Foundation applauds the attention that EYS will bring to education, training and lifelong learning. However, SOLIDAR deplores the way the European…
What are the solutions to the environmental, social and democratic crises? Which alliances and campaigns progressive movements should put in motion in the context of the 2024 European elections? These questions guided the visit of SOLIDAR’s member organisation La Ligue de l’Enseignement, one of France’s largest organisations in non-formal education, to the SOLIDAR network in Brussels,…
Every year, since the year 2000, SOLIDAR organises its Silver Rose Awards in the European Parliament in cooperation with the Socialists & Democrats Group in the European Parliament (S&D), an occasion to celebrate Civil Society Organisations and individuals whose extraordinary struggles contribute greatly to social justice and solidarity throughout the world. This year, the Silver Rose is organized by SOLIDAR in…
Ahead of the vote in the plenary session of the European Parliament on 18 April 2023, 17 entities, including NGOs working on social and climate issues and green business, published a joint statement in support of the Social Climate Fund, the first EU Fund specifically dedicated to provide financial support to vulnerable households, transport users and micro-enterprises in the…
In March 2023, SOLIDAR, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the Open Society Foundations organised a workshop on ‘Empowering Vulnerable Groups in the Green economy’ with experts from a wide range of organisations to identify relevant gaps in research and policy and to propose measures to better support people in vulnerable situations and underrepresented groups in…
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