Georgia Bekridaki lives and works in Athens and has been involved in Social Solidarity Economy since 2011, in the field of social cooperative business consulting. She is a founding member and employee of Dock - Cooperative Space for SSE, where she supports new and existing cooperative groups to set up and grow. At the same time, she is doing research on the topics of Civil Society, Social Solidarity Economy, Cooperativism and Collective Action. She is a graduate of the Department of Sociology (BSc) and the Department of Psychology, Social Psychology of Conflict (MSc), Panteion University. She is continuing her studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete.