International Symposium – Thessaloniki, Greece, 22-23 May 2023

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Thessaloniki, Greece

22-23 May 2023

“FACING THE (G)LOCAL EMERGENCIES:
Ensuring the supply of vital goods and services through the social economy and state-owned enterprises”

Debates will focus on:

• How to address the challenges of transition?
• Infrastructure: at the forefront of energy transition
• Urban policies to co-construct the local development
• Public companies, protagonists of integrated models in response to the necessary transitions
• The Social Economy : another way to undertake in the territories
• Partnerships to face global challenges by building local solutions

PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE

Structure Program:

📆 Monday 22 May am

OPENING SESSION

• Kostantinos ZERVAS, Mayor of the City of Thessaloniki
• Bernard THIRY, President of CIRIEC & President of SOCOFE (Belgium)
• Thomas DERMINE, State Secretary for Economic Recovery and Strategic Investments, in charge of Science Policy, added to the Minister of the Economy and Employment (Belgium) (per video)

SESSION 1: How to address the challenges of transition? 

• Linda KUNERTOVÁ, Social and Economic Analyst, „Fair Green and Digital Transitions, Research”, DG Employment Social Affairs & Inclusion, European Commission
• Dimitris DIMITRIADIS, Former EESC President & Vice-President, President of the EESC External Relations Section (REX) (Greece)
• Tarek NEMSI, Strategy & Transformation Director, Luminus (Belgique)

SESSION 2: Infrastructure: at the forefront of energy transition 

• Energy transition: what challenges for distribution system operators (DSO) ? The Case of ORES / Isabelle CALLENS, Head of Public Affairs & Communication, ORES – Operator of gas and electricity distribution networks (Belgium)
• Managing energy infrastructures with community involvement: the role of energy communities / Barbara ANTONIOLI MANTEGAZZINI, Titular professor and Deputy Director of the Institute
  for Economic Research, Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) (Text)
• Infrastructure as driving force behind Vienna’s transition into a climate neutral city by 2040 / Fabian GERNER BA MA, Office for Services of General Interest – City of Vienna (Austria)
• (Texts: Phasing Out Gas Vienna ; Smart Climate City Strategy Vienna ; Vienna Climate Guide) – F.Gerner@wienholding.at

📆 Monday 22 May pm

SESSION 3: Urban policies to co-construct the local development 

• Mobility for everyone / Lisa-Marie STAUFFER, Chief Communications Officer (CCO), Mobility Association Austria (Mobilitätsverbünde Österreich) (Austria)
• Public and social economy dialogue initiatives to strengthen local action / Claude DORION, General Director of MCE-Conseils (Canada)
• Cooperative Banking and Regional and Local Development: the Portuguese case / Paulo BENTO, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)
• Improving the quality of the environment in cities / Beata PATER, University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland)
• To co-construct policy based on the deliberative democracy: The case of Kakogawa-city in Japan / Kazuhiko TABATA, Hyogo University (Japan)

SESSION 4: Public companies, protagonists of integrated models in response to the necessary transitions

• State-Owned Enterprise and the Low Carbon Transition: An Agenda for Research / Eoin REEVES, President of the International Scientific Commission « Public Enterprises/Public Services », University of Limerick (Ireland)
• CSRD and SDGS as drivers for transforming public enterprises / Dorothea GREILING, President of the CIRIEC’s International Council, Johannes Kepler Universität – Linz (Austria)
• Public enterprises: general interest objectives and democratic participation / Pierre BAUBY, Director of the Observatoire de l’action publique (Observatory of public action), Teacher and
  Researcher in Political Science (France)

In parallel, presentation of scientific papers: “El papel de la ESS en el suministro de bienes y servicios esenciales” (spanish session) 

• Economía Social y Resiliencia Económica en las comarcas de la Comunidad Autonómica del País Vasco (CAPV) / Artitzar ERAUSKIN, Aitziber ETXEZARRETA & Julen IZAGIRRE, GEZKI (Institute of Cooperative Law and Social Economy), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain)
• Valores y principios en el cooperativismo de consumidores y usuarios en España / Paloma BEL DURÁN & Gustavo LEJARRIAGA PÉREZ DE LAS VACAS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• Clasificación de las cooperativas multinacionales / Anjel ERRASTI, GEZKI (Institute of Cooperative Law and Social Economy), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) (Spain)
• Conseguir una resolución en la Asamblea General de la ONU es como construir una casa: el caso de la resolución 77/281 “Promover la economía social y solidaria para el desarrollo sostenible / Marion POUZOULET, ESS-Forum International (France)
• The resilience of public–social economy partnerships for food justice: a case study / Alexandrine LAPOUTTE, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
• Theme to be determined / Federico LI BONILLA, Executive Director of CIRIEC-Costa Rica, Universidad Estatal a Distancia – UNED (Costa Rica)

📆 Tuesday 23 May am

SESSION 5: The Social Economy: another way to undertake in the territories

• How the cooperative model, through its mode of governance and decision-making process, can promote local and territorial development with the support of its partners / Yvan ROUILLÉ, Deputy Director General of the Caisse Desjardins des policiers et policières (Canada)
• Fostering territorial innovation through social economy ecosystems / Rafael CHAVES, President of the Scientific Committee of CIRIECEspaña, Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
• Formalization of grassroots enterprises through the social economy / Juan Fernando ÁLVAREZ, President of the Scientific Committee of CIRIEC-Colombia; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá (Colombia)
• For a new paradigm of territorial development: the strength of the SSE promise / Jean-Louis CABRESPINES, General Delegate of CIRIECFrance, Former Member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (France)
• Accompaniment to communities for the creation of Social Economy companies from the approach of the Social Spin-Off / Federico LI BONILLA, Executive Director of CIRIEC-Costa Rica, Universidad Estatal a Distancia – UNED (Costa Rica)

FINAL ROUND TABLE: Partnerships to face global challenges by building local solutions 

• Ana UMBELINO, Deputy Mayor of Torres Vedras, in charge of culture, cultural heritage, social development and citizen participation; President of the Board of Directors of the European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (REVES); Member of the GECES of the European Commission (Portugal)
• Jean-François LALONDE, Director general of PME MTL – Centre Est – business support network of the City of Montreal (Canada)
• Nathalie REY, Senior lecturer in economics, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France)
• Dries GOEDERTIER, Policy Adivsor – Health and Social Care Services, General Central of Public Services – ACOD-CGSP, University of Ghent (Belgium)

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