Events

The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School in New York City (USA) and MONDRAGON Co-op. & MTA-MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY Mondragon, Gizpuzkoa (Spain) jointly offer an emergency online course to introduce, incubate, and accelerate platform cooperatives. The course consists of two parts. Part 1 is an introduction to the gig economy, blueprints for political imaginaries, an introduction to cooperatives and case studies of platform co-ops. Part 2, aimed the incubate platform co-ops, is offered in collaboration with international partners in many countries in a local language.

WiseLifeLab - Call for Partnership for EUvsVirus Panhackathon On April 24th to April 26th the WiseLifeLab research group of the Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics of UNiTo participated in the Hackathon Eu Versus Virus (see: https://euvsvirus.org/), an initiative supported by the European Parliament, the Committee of Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, aimed at collecting projects to tackle the challenges deriving from the Covid-19 crisis. More than 20.000 people were involved in the event from all over Europe, over 2000 projects have been submitted. We applied with two projects, both competing within the domain Digital Finance. The Commonshood web-app (www.commonshood.eu), developed by the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Turin, is considered as a potential platform for the implementation of both projects. The first one named Co3 Crowdfunding as Wise Commoning, competed for the challenge Enable crowd to help financially. This project, which directly involves the CO3 consortium, is focused on the implementation of crowdfunding initiatives for the current healthcare and socioeconomic crisis and post-crisis. The second one named A Peer to Peer solution for health insurance was competing for the challenge Availability of emergency health Insurance; it concerns the implementation of blockchain technology via the webapp Commonshood to create a peer-to-peer solution for the insurtech, which is aimed at overcoming the shortfalls of the industry with respect to health-related emergencies. he second project was selected as a finalist.   If these projects are of interest to you, we would be happy to provide you with more information and possibly to have you as supporters and partners within the Matchaton before 21 May or for other opportunities beyond that event.   For contacts:   Vincenzo Giorgino:   vincenzo.giorgino@unito.it   Sowelu Avanzo: soweluelios.avanzo@unito.it  

In response to COVID-19, Global Sharing Week 2020 will see a coordinated online effort to ensure that those living in poverty will receive the vital resources they need to survive the crisis.

The conference will be held for five days from June 1 to 5 at the multipurpose hall of Seoul City Hall, and will be broadcast live online to connect the world. Join our executive director, Neal Gorenflo on Wednesady June 3 from 6pm- 7:30pm Seoul time (11:00am- 12:30pm CET) for the Sharing Cities, Resiliency and Sustainability session.

Celebrate the second annual Global Degrowth Day with us on 6th June 2020! Be part of a diverse movement for global justice, sustainability and well-being. Public events will be held all over the world in order to share alternatives to a growth based society. We want to show: a good life for all is possible!

Organize an event in your neighborhood and connect with us on https://www.degrowth.info/en/globalday/

The ACE Institute "Sustainability and the Co-operative Difference" is approaching! This year's edition promises to be an exciting conference. Join us in Vancouver, BC (Canada) at the University of British Columbia from June 10 to 12 and discover how the co-operative movement is playing an important role in the development of the region.

This event is now an online event due to COVID-19. Learn more here. The fourth Open Co-op conference has a new theme for 2020. On the 11th and 12th of June 2020 they will be focusing on: Practical solutions to co-create a collaborative, regenerative economy that puts people and planet before profit.

A world-changing programme of inspirational talks, interviews, films, humour and music