IV. International Forum - Globalisation of Solidarity

April 22-25, 2009  Schifflange / Kulturfabrik (Luxemburg)

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The objectives of Lux'09, the 4th international meeting

Here are the significant advances already made that Lux'09 will mark.

  • We are called upon to implement solidarity.
  • We are required to confirm the sense and the reality of being in a network.
  • We must ask ourselves how each of our experiences respect people and the environment and look at the means we use to achieve this.
  • We must strive to experiment at a wider level with the innovations introduced naturally by the SSE, so as to develop them, to make them better known and to launch future forms of cooperation.

LUX’09 will provide all of the participants with the opportunity to benefit from the potential inherent in experience that has already been acquired, to gauge its scope and to implement it more widely. Improving the way in which we share our knowledge and our know-how and making them accessible to everyone, is the best way to progress the forward-thinking approach and philosophy of which we are the proponents. That is why the workshops will have four transversal objectives:

  1. To focus on the realities faced by practitioners, to combine ideas with practice in order to be as pragmatic as possible, to learn from other people’s experiences, through the way in which other people think and do things;
  2. To give a sense and meaning to functioning in a network and to consider the way in which this can be achieved;
  3. To reinforce links, to improve the quality of the relationships that exist between the various actors. This type of event provides us with the opportunity to do this, whether it be at a regional level or between regions, at a national level or between different countries, at a continent level or between continents, so as to devise new initiatives together;
  4. To further develop the innovatory dimension of our activities and to explore the challenges that awaits us.

Finally, we will also have to address a fifth element, one that will be key to our future: how can we guarantee the economic survival of these initiatives and their networking within RIPESS. The social and solidarity economy offer sustainable prospects for the world’s future and as such should be given greater consideration in economic policies.

 There remains a great deal of work to be carried out together in order to develop our initiatives and to consolidate our network! … and to write many more new chapters.


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