---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ana Margarida Esteves <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:24 AM Subject: ECA at UniverSSE 2017 To: [email protected] Good evening, everyone, Ruby, Laure and myself had a very good "harvest' at the Assembly and Workshop we coordinated at UniverSSE 2017 in Athens. We not only managed to attract Enrique Duran and John Restakis to our list (they seemed very enthusiastic and said they would enroll), but we also got from the discussions some gourmet food for thought that we should "digest" together in the coming weeks and months: - What do we exactly mean when we talk about "public policies" and "regulations"? - Which public bodies are our natural partners? The European institutions? National governments? Municipalities? Given the prominent role progressive municipal governments, such as that of Barcelona an Naples, are gaining in the Commons/SSE field, shouldn't we give more attention to the development of alliances with municipalities, as well as the diffusion at the European level of "best practices" regarding collaboration between Commons/SSE actors and municipal governments? - How to promote the sustainability of Commons/SSE initiatives by developing "ecosystems" based on synergetic funding and the establishment of supply chains and economies of scale among participants? - How to attract to the ECA and promote collaboration between "state-oriented" and "autonomist-oriented" Commons/SSE actors? - What is the position and role of ECA members who represent themselves, as well as those who represent organizations? Should we develop different rules and methodology for participation? - How to further involve academics in the ECA and Commons/SSE movement and give them the tools to influence the public opinion and give credibility to our movement? - How should we develop connections with Commons/SSE movements and organizations outside of Europe? - Should we draft together a kind of charter/guiding document in which we define basic concepts, goals and methodologies? Besides all this, it is worthy to mention the solid convergence that is happening between the Commons and SSE movements in Greece. In October this year, there will be a Solidarity Economy and the Commons festival in Athens. Best, Ana Margarida -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/