Themes: Citizen participation

Presse

Reform of the banking system – horizon magazine

We need to return to a diverse, small-scale banking system in order to reduce the risk of another financial crisis, according to Professor Eckhard Hein. He was interviewed by the European Commission’s magazine dedicated to research and innovation: Horizon.

 

Projet

EUROVIP: Valuing volunteering commitment

EuroVIP “European Volunteer Inclusion Program” is a European project led by a consortium of 5 partners from different Member States. The project aims to promote the professional integration and employability of young people aged 17-30 through the recognition of their skills developed during volunteering experiences.

Publication

Involvement of companies in the fight against gender-based violence in Belgium

One of the main activities of the “CARVE – Companies against gender violence” project consisted in carrying out qualitative national studies that aimed at presenting the national legal and social backgrounds as well as the way violence committed against women is treated by companies. In this national study, POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ presents the results of the field investigation carried in Belgium.

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PLS on social media

Find POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ – PLS on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr and issuu and join our think & do tank!

Evénement

Impacts of Financialisation on Society, Environment and Economy

POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ – PLS will participate to the fourth annual conference of the European project FESSUD (Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development), on 15-17 October 2015, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Actualité

Stand up for transnational innovation in the Mediterranean

Launched in 2013, the CITEK project aims at developing innovative capacity in the Mediterranean area, relying on strategic cooperation between public and private actors and social economy organizations. CITEK capitalizes the results of the MED Programme, whose ouputs were set out during a final event in Brussels in March 2015. PLS is pleased to present three innovative tools from this project.

Actualité

Inviting marginalized groups to challenge the structures creating marginality in the financial sector

The European think & do tank POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ – PLS is in charge of coordinating a participatory research activity on Financialization and Wellbeing where civil society organizations (CSOs) from 9 different countries participate. The activity aims to elicit the perspectives of economically disadvantaged on the financial system and on the reforms that these envisage in order to better tailor the financial sector to their needs.

Evénement

Financial sector and wellbeing – a participatory reflection

Between 11th and 13th of February, PLS organises in Brussels a workshop with representatives of civil society organisations from ten different countries on the relationship between the financial sector and wellbeing. The workshop aims to build up the capacity of participant civil society organisations to carry out research on financialization and wellbeing.

Projet

FESSUD – Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development

FESSUD brings together expertise from 14 leading universities across Europe and South Africa and one civil society organisation to look afresh at how the financial system affects the world around us. We need to know what can be done to make the financial system work for society, the economy and the environment and not – as has sometimes been the case – the other way round.

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