Social Solidarity Economy

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A short introduction to the politics of time—or why waste some of your time with us?

This article is an attempt to define time, an attempt to realise that it is a construction with specific implications, both social and individual, for each and every one of us, but also an incitement to reshape the experience of time around, in and out of labour, in directions that produce less inequality and pain.

By Maro Pantazidou and Paris Selinas

Free Besieged Time: Our holidays, the 4-day workweek, and a year otherwise

ARTICLE

The social perception of time is a construct formed over the course of past centuries that was mainly based on the needs of capitalist, commercialised labour. Work and non-work time were radically and violently separated, which had an important impact on our psychology and our very existence. This article points out that time is absolutely central to the debate on the transformation and future of labour.

By Paris Selinas and Maro Pantazidou

Business sustainability tools in SSE: Social Value

TOOLKIT

This valuable business tool helps social solidarity economy initiatives in a simple and analytical way to understand their values and their position in the market, to realise their problems, to evaluate their situation and to plan their prospects. This practical guide includes three volumes: 1. on social value, 2. on economic sustainability and 3. on the strategy of an initiative.

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Business sustainability tools in SSE: Strategy

TOOLKIT

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Business sustainability tools in SSE: Economic sustainability

TOOLKIT

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Handbook on participatory planning for small islands

PUBLICATION

This publication presents a project that was implemented in Samothrace (January-December 2021), in order to contribute to the democratic activation of the local community and to support the co-planning of a proposal for the island's future.

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Συμμετοχικός Δημοτικός Προϋπολογισμός εξώφυλλο νέο

Participatory Municipal Budget

PUBLICATION

A collective study that includes basic concepts on the subject, presentation of international and Greek experience, information on the institutional framework, tips etc.

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The Greek cooperative law. From fragmentation to unification

PUBLICATION

This publication analyses and compares the provisions of each law for the different categories of cooperatives and presents certain proposals for a new legal framework aimed at unifying Greek cooperative law, as urgently recommended by international and European Organisations and Cooperative Associations.

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The legal framework of Social Solidarity Economy in Greece

PUBLICATION

What processes led to the formation of the new institutional framework for the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Greece? What did stakeholders and collectives say during the public consultation process? What is finally in place today? What failures can be identified in the law? Is there room for the co-design of public policies for SSE in Greece?

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Losing time – The zine

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This is a small handmade publication, a zine, that frames and expands through words, colours and images the podcast series "Losing Time", about time, work and their entanglements. It is a mosaic composed of extracts from the podcasts, texts written in digital notebooks by listeners and material created in the context of two workshops in Athens and Thessaloniki in the spring of 2023. This publication is a creative reformulation of all the above material.

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