We define the Social and Solidarity Economy as a collective of non-state companies (in the sense of structured activities involving women and men engaged in a common project) based on equality, democratic management, non-profit, but also, according to our conception, consciously engaged in a movement of social and ecological transformation.

From India to Quebec, from Japan to Italy, the Social and Solidarity Economy gathers citizens’ responses to the economic, social, environmental and cultural needs of populations and forms the basis for democratic alternatives.

Intercoll Social and Solidarity Economy, like all Intercoll working groups, initially engages in the inventory of digital tools derived from, or able to participate in, Social and Solidarity Economy movements involved in social and ecological transformation. The identification and regular publication of significant articles of the movements in progress, with a view to building up a vast network of exchanges around the Social and Solidarity Economy in order to co-construct an international thought from the perspective of emancipation.