Germany

3 publications

• Patterns of Commoning

  The Commons strategy group

  coedited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, The Commons strategy group and Off the Common Press, 2015

• Occupy money: Creating an economy where everybody wins.

  Margrit Kennedy, New Society Publishers, United States, October 2012

• People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies

  Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer, John Rogers, Triarchy Press, UK, July 2012

10 Videos

• SOCIAL SOLIDARITY ECONOMY in Europe - For a better future

  May 2021

  RIPESS Europe

• Democratizing money for a stable, sustainable and fair future | Christian Gelleri | TEDxKassel

  October 2019

• Spreefeld Housing Cooperative

  April 2017

• Food policy councils (INKOTA)

  Susy Project

  June 2016

  SUSY

• Solikon 2015: Solidarische Ökonomie-Initiativen und -Netze in Südeuropa

  September 2015

• Solikon 2015: Alternative Finanzierungsinstrumente auf Gegenseitigkeit

  September 2015

• Commons, Economy for the common good and Solidarity Economy: What do they share?

  Degrowth conference, Leipzig 2014

  September 2014

• Car reduced living in Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

  June 2014

• A flaw in the monetary system

  2013

  Monneta.org

• Ludwig Schuster – A New Monetary Pluralism from a recombination of regional economic circles to investing in a sustainable future.

  Ludwig Schuster, June 2009

31 pedagogical tools

• The Community Compass. An aid to orientation for community projects.

  Der Gemeinschaftskompass, April 2021

• Training template A toolkit for strengthening VET trainers’ competences on the Social Solidarity Economy

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  Coord. Laura Aufrère, Jason Nardi, 2021

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 8 : Self-evaluation questionnaire

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 3 - PowerPoint 2 - Bilateral sharing experience

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 7 : PowerPoint 4 - Intellectual output 2 Presentation

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 7 : Working Group - Training community

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 7 : Working group - action-research

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 6 : powerpoint 3 - Write a case study

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 2 : Co-design national trainings

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 4 : PowerPoint 3 : Towards national trainings

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 3 : PowerPoint 2 : From knowledge to analysis: managing a participatory process

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 3-4 : Synthesis of experimentation area questionnaires

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 2: Powerpoint 1 - Interpreting our observation

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Working Group - Common matrix IRIS

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 4 : Working Group - Common matrix

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 3: PowerPoint 3 - Capability approach

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 2: Working Groups - Case studies

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 1 : Skills/Competences

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 1: Powerpoint 2 : Competences in VET

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 3 : Working Group - SSE and IVET

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 2: Powerpoint 2 : Social Solidarity economy

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 1 : Powerpoint 1: Introduction

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 1 - Presentation game

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 1 : Powerpoint 1: Mapping of VET skills and competences: Field research

  October 2019

  SSE-VET2

• Unit 1: Power point 1 : Presentation of the project

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2019

  SSE-VET2

• European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

  2019

  SSE-VET2

• SSE.E IVET : Training module 3. Ethical and Solidarity Finance and Resources

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  August 2018

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V., Solidarius Italia, RIPESS Europe, CRIES, APDES

• SSE.E IVET : Training module 2. Democratic Management in the Social Solidarity Economy

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  August 2018

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V., Solidarius Italia, RIPESS Europe, CRIES, APDES

• SSE.E IVET : Training module 1. Social Solidarity Economy Values and Principles

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  August 2018

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V., Solidarius Italia, RIPESS Europe, CRIES, APDES

• Unit 2: Powerpoint 3 : The impact of Social Enterprises

  Karl Birkhölzer, 2013

  SSE-VET2

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work

  Reader for the ILO Academy on Social And Solidarity Academy 2011

  Nancy Néamtan, Mathieu de Poorter, Leandro Pereira Morais, Bénédicte Fonteneau, Fredrick Wanyama, Carlo Borzaga, Giulia Galera, Tom Fox, Nathaneal Ojong, October 2011

  BIT/ILO

9 case studies

• Weiberwirtschaft, a cooperative of women for the setting up of women’s businesses in Berlin

  Article of RIPESS Europe NL, november 2020

  Günther Lorenz, November 2020

  RIPESS Europe

• ExRotaprint Project Description

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  April 2020

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• Rural social and solidarity economy initiatives from Central and Eastern Europe – In contexts of peripheralisation to what extent may participation be a reality?

  3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminarn Welfaire societies in Transition, Roskilde, April 2018

  Melinda Mihaly, April 2018

  EMES

• TIME AND TERRITORY. TIME POLICIES OF THE CITIES

  Revista Papers N.49 –

  Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona1

• Creating decent jobs for migrants and refugees through social enterprise in Berlin

  ILO Spotlight on Cooperatives

  ILO, February 2017

  BIT/ILO

• Oekogeno

  2016

  FEBEA

• Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)

  Sustainability 2015, 7(2), 1900-1931

  Thomas Hoppe, Antonia Graf, Beau Warbroek, Imke Lammers, Isabella Lepping, 2015

• GOOD PRACTICE IN SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT APPROACHES TO VERIFICATION FROM ACROSS EUROPE

  The LANDMARK consortium

  Ana Teresa Santos, Martina Hooper, Natalie Evans, 2012

• Chiemgauer, Germany and Banco Palmas, Brazil

  Social money for sound community development

  Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota, January 2009

34 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Exploring SSE and its initiatives among european members

  Consultancy project 2021 for the Labo de l’ESS

  Prepared by Léna Mamalis, Clara Schouler, Jeanne Parmentier, Charlène Castagna, Juliette Vazzoler, August 2021

  Le labo de l’ESS

• Multimedia Tools

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  Coord. Laura Aufrère, Jason Nardi, July 2021

  SSE-VET2

• Action Plan for affirming Social Solidarity Economy in trainers’ curricula

  2021

  SSE-VET2

• Cooperatives and the ILO ober 100 years : A selection of 12 articles

  Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

  AA.VV., September 2020

  CIRIEC, BIT/ILO

• SSE-VET2 Transnational participatory training Programme

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Mapping VET trainers’ competences and existing SSE training programs

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Flyer Erasmus project SSE-Vocational Educational Training (SSE-VET2)

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Action Plan for affirming SSE in IVET curricula

  2019

  SSE-VET2

• Mapping VET trainers’ competences and existing SSE training programs. Final Report.

  Final Report

  2019

  SSE-VET2

• Investing in the future through Social and Solidarity Economy

  Policy brief - April 2018

  2018

  SSE-VET2

• Mapping opportunities and constraints for affirming the Social Solidarity Economy in Initial Vocational Education and Training curricula

  Final Report form the project “Social and Solidarity Economy in Europe: affirming a new paradigm through IVET curricula innovation” (September 2016 – August 2018)

  Jason Nardi, Josette Combes, June 2017

  RIPESS Europe, APDES

• Initiatives, Chains and Networking for Transformation

  Degrowth in movement(s): Solidarity Economy

  Dagmar Embshoff, Clarita Müller-Plantenberg,, Giuliana Giorgi, January 2017

• Unifying commons-based projects in a self-organised solidarity economy

  Commons Institute Christian Siefkes, Johannes Euler, Gunter Kramp, Nikolas Kichler, November 2016

• Cultures of Community Energy International case studies

  Neil Simcock, Rebecca Willis, Peter Capener in association with Lancaster Environment Centre – Lancaster University, May 2016

• Social Economy. STUDY.

  Directorate General for Internal Policies. Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy of the European Parliament, May 2016

• Key competences in Vocational Education and Training GERMANY

  Cedefop ReferNet thematic perspectives series

  K.A Hensen, U. Hippach-Schneider, 2016

• Mapping Women’s Social Entrepreneurship in Europe.Synthesis Report.

  WEstart Emily Usher Shrair, September 2015

• Review of impact assessment methodologies for ethical finance

  Giacomo Pinaffo, Malcolm Hayday, Aurora Prospero, January 2015

  FEBEA

• Social enterprise models in Germany

  ICSEM Working Papers No. 2015-15, Liege: The International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project.

  Karl Birkhölzer, 2015

• Social Enterprise in Germany: Understanding Concepts and Context

  ICSEM Working Papers No. 14. Liege: The International Comparative Social Enterprise Models(ICSEM) Project.

  Karl Birkhölzer, Nicole GÖLER VON RAVENSBURG, Gunnar GLÄNZEL, Christian LAUTERMANN, Georg MILDENBERGER, 2015

• The institutional space of community initiatives for renewable energy: a comparative case study of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark

  Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014

  Marieke Oteman, Mark Wiering, Helderman Jan-Kees, 2014

• Solutions to the crisis? The Green New Deal, Degrowth, and the Solidarity Economy: Alternatives to the capitalist growth economy from an ecofeminist economics perspective

  Ecological Economics, 2014, vol. 102, issue C, pages 60-68

  Christine Bauhardt, 2014

• Report on results on action research: barriers to the use of alternative (‘beyond GDP’) indicators in policy making and how they are being overcome and can be overcome.

  BRAINPOoL deliverable 3.1, A collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme (Contract no. 283024). nef (the new economics foundation),

  Charles Seaford, November 2013

• Summary of phase 1 of the web forum to prepare for the RIPESS meeting in Manila - Theme 2: SSE initiatives in the territories

  5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Martine Theveniaut, October 2013

  P’Actes Européens - European Pacts

• Review report on Beyond GDP indicators: categorisation, intensions and impacts.

  Final version of BRAINPOoL deliverable 1.1, A collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme (Contract no. 283024). CUEC Prague

  Tomáš Hák, Svatava Janoušková, Charles Seaford, Saamah Abdallah, Sorcha Mahony, October 2012

• Solidarity economy between a focus on the local and a global view Regional currencies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

  International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France

  Krister Volkmann, February 2011

• Banking as if Society Mattered: The Case of Triodos Bank

  Katrin Dr. Käufer, January 2011

  MIT Colab

• Banks and microfinance in Europe

  MicroFinance Europe n°7, June 2010

  June 2010

• Energy cooperatives and local ownership in the field of renewable energy technologies: A literature review

  RiCC – research report 2010/4

  Anna Schreuer, Daniela Weismeier-Sammer, April 2010

• The Economics of Solidarity: A Conceptual Framework

  Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 73-89, February.

  Alexander S. Kritikos,, Friedel Bolle,, Jonathan H. W. Tan,, 2007

• The Third System as innovative force : an attempt at a definition of its function

  Karl Birkhölzer, 2004

• The concept of social capital in the social economy to local economic develoment in Western Europe

  Conscise Research project 2000-2003

  2003

• Social capital

  Information paper

  Karl Birkhölzer, 2003

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• SSE VET2 : Training in Action Course

  Final version

  Coord. Soana Tortora, Chiara Bonifazi, February 2001

  SSE-VET2

6 public contributions

• Unit 5 - German tools

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Online cultural exchange

  Social Solidarity Economy in Europe : affirming a new paradigm trhough IVET curricula innovation

  2020

  SSE-VET2

• Buen Vivir and Beyond Searching for a New Paradigm of Action

  Paper in Venice 2012 Degrowth Conference, Workshop Real Utopias. From Solidarity Economy to the ,Buen Vivir’

  Ana Agostino, Franziska Dübgen, 2012

• Social work and community-based social economies: reflections on the task of socio-political development

  Xe Rencontres du RIUESS - Luxembourg - 2 au 4 juin 2010

  Susanne Elsen, June 2010

  RIUESS

• How a social economy organisation promoting festivals and selling beer contributes to a wider vision of social inclusion and solidarity? The case of the Workers Beer Company in the UK and Germany

  VIIemes Rencontres du Réseau Inter-Universitaire de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Rennes (2007)

  Nick Dolezal, Alex Murdock, May 2007

  RIUESS

• Development and perspectives of the Social Economy or the Third Sector in Germany

  paper for the 1st European Conference EMES, 27 to 29 of April 2005, ParisFrance,

  Karl Birkhölzer, January 2006

16 articles

• Drawing boundaries: Negotiating a collective ‘we’ in community-supported agriculture networks

  Leonie Guerrero Lara, Giuseppe Feola, Peter Driessen, February 2024

  Journal of Rural Studies

• Public policy news from SSE in Germany

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, December 2023

  Günther Lorenz, December 2023

  RIPESS Europe, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• Ecovillages meeting: A spectacular experience

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, September 2023

  Jason Nardi, September 2023

  RIPESS Europe

• Preparing for the event “Social Economy, the Future of Europe” – Strasbourg, May 2022: TechNet contribution

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - March 2022

  March 2022

  RIPESS Europe, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• “Let’s embrace Riace and Mimmo Lucano”

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - December 2021

  Elisabeth Voß, December 2021

  RIPESS Europe, NETZ

• The climate crisis is racist… – a closer Cooperation is necessary

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - November 2021

  Elisabeth Voß, November 2021

  RIPESS Europe, NETZ

• RESET, cooperation between SSE and regional / local governments in Europe

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - October 2021

  Günther Lorenz, October 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• More Mentors for Stronger CSA Networks Webinar Report

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - October 2021

  Urgenci, October 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Urgenci

• Webinar report : “How to Keep Food Community Members Involved?”, 22 April 2021

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - May 2021

  May 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Urgenci

• Meet Günther Lorenz from Technet (Germany): member of Ripess Eu

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - April 2021

  Günther Lorenz, April 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• Social Economy Berlin : Development of a common ecosystem for the social entrepreneurs and the social and solidary economy in Berlin.

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - December 2020

  Günther Lorenz, December 2020

  RIPESS Europe, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

• Berlin, cooperatives need more democracy

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - October 2020

  Elisabeth Voß, October 2020

  RIPESS Europe, NETZ

• Doughnut Economy for Berlin

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - October 2020

  Elisabeth Voß, October 2020

  RIPESS Europe, NETZ

• Community-led responses to the pandemic #2

  Article from Ecolise,April 16, 2020

  Nara Petrovic, April 2020

  Ecolise

• Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the Grassroots

  Article of Dissent Magazine, Fall 2018

  H. Jacob Carlson, Marnie Brady, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, November 2018

• In Berlin, a Model for Creative and Affordable Housing (Spreefeld)

  Article of Yes! Magazine, April 12, 2017

  Sarah van Gelder, April 2017

  Yes! Magazine

An organization RIPESS & SDGs

• A cooperative of women to promote women"s businesses in Berlin

  2021

  Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V., RIPESS Europe, RIPESS Intercontinental

• Resilience through SSE in Brandebourg, Germany

  TechNet Berlin -Germany, January 2022

  RIPESS Intercontinental, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.

Web sites :

• Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e. V.
• Wuppertal Institute, Germany,
• Heinrich Böll Foundation
• SÖ - Initiative für ein Netzwerk Solidarische Ökonomie
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• Kontext TV
• OYA
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