Social Solidarity Economy

In this episode we discuss on the effects of the suspension of social activities had on the operation of ventures providing consulting to other Social and Solidarity Economy projects. We speak with Manolis Britzolakis from the Heraklion Support Center, Chrysostomos Galanos from the Chania Support Center and Georgia Bekridaki from the Support Center operating in Athens.

The Social Cooperative Enterprise Eklektik promotes products of cooperative enterprises and fair trade in Thessaloniki. We explore the impact of the pandemic on this enterprise (both positive and negative developments) as well as the future aspirations of its members.

Tzoumakers is a workshop in the village of Kalendzi where people design and manufacture machines for their local small scale agricultural production by using open technologies.

This video talks about the things that a welfare state should offer: support for everyone from birth to old age, affordable housing, public spaces, culture, healthcare, and job training.

The Social Cooperative Enterprise Wind of Renewal promotes green and social innovation. As one of its activities is the operation of a hostel in the centre of Athens, we can see the problems caused by the pandemic to the sustainability of the project as well as the challenges that innovative ventures face in terms of access to funding in Greece.  

For whom is Thessaloniki today? Could it become in the future a city that offers quality of life, employment opportunities, and prospects for personal development? How do different communities coexist? What does the degradation of public, especially green, spaces signify? These pressing questions were the focus of an open discussion about the city’s needs, the changes it requires, the challenges it currently faces, and the priorities it must set for the future to reverse the trend of people leaving or the underutilization of its potential. (available in Greek) 

In this episode we speak with Christos Manoukas from the cooperative bookstore, cafe and publishing house Akyvernites Polities and Telemachos Doufexis-Antonopoulos from Sinadelfon Publications on how the activities of cooperative bookstores and publishing houses were affected during the time of restrictive measures and how they managed though this unprecedented situation.