Resilience is more and more relevant nowadays as our todays´ challenges face us to many uncertainties. The ongoing pandemic reminds us how it is important to be adaptable. That is why resilience can play a great role in the process of change. Indeed, to be resilient is the capacity for individual to recover quickly from…
Authored by Paola Campassi (Pro Natura Torino), Translated by Maria Giulia Rosini The Covid 19 pandemic cannot be considered only a painful digression in our existence and in that of the world. It forced us to reflect on the need to change our lifestyle and socio-economic system that the West World built to the detriment…
The covid19 pandemic caught everyone by surprise. There was no time to prepare for it very much, or at all. After restrictions were put into place, there was little space to be outside or even leave the house altogether. Life changed dramatically almost overnight. Now that some restrictions have been lifted, things are still strange,…
“We won’t return to normality because normality was the problem” During the lockdown I bumped into the aforementioned sentence. This statement got me thinking about the meaning that is often attributed to the concept of normality. Does a universal concept for indicating “normality” really exist? Since I was a child, my mum taught me that…
Limited Liability Social Cooperative (Koi.S.P.E.) of Fokida, “Yannis Volikas”, as all the other social cooperatives (Koi.S.P.E.) is a legal person governed by private law with limited responsibility of its members that was implemented by the law 2716/1999. Social cooperatives are productive/commercial units and mental health units which are overseen by the Mental Health Directorate of the Ministry of Health…
Social and Solidarity Economy, through social enterprises and cooperatives, is directly linked to the resilience of vulnerable groups and local communities. The social economy becomes more important in the crisis and post-crisis periods, as in this period of time the quantity of unprotected inhabitants increases, the unemployment growth and special measures should be taken to help…
https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/cooperatives/news/WCMS_744958/lang–en/index.htm – Original post Greetings from the Cooperatives Unit of the International Labour Organization in Geneva. This a moment of great disruption. Full or partial lockdown measures have affected more than 5 billion people around the world. Recent ILO estimates indicate that more than 436 million enterprises are at risk. Millions of workers around the world are…