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Sustainable economic models in the focus of the international conference: ECGIC 2024


International GWÖ Conference | 3rd-5th June 2024 in Leeuwarden, NL

The movement for the common good economy is organizing its 3rd scientific conference on sustainable economic models and their regional implementation together with two universities and a research institute in North Holland.

The search for future-proof, ecologically and socially sustainable economic models is in full swing. Six of the new planetary boundaries have been crossed, inequality is reaching new record highs, and democracy is on the defensive worldwide. What is now needed are economic models and practices that are part of the solution and enable sustainable ways of living, producing and consuming.

Following on from that Beyond Growth Conference in the EU Parliament in May 2023 with more than 2.000 participants on site and at least as many in the live stream is organized by the internationally growing movement of the common good economy June 3rd to 5th their 3rd international scientific conference - after 2019 at the University of Bremen and 2022 at the University of Valencia, now in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden, together with the two of them Universities Groningen and NHL Stenden as well as the Wetsus Research Institute. 

The focus of the conference is on sustainable economic models, their convergence and interaction. The conference is divided into theory (day 1), sustainable practices (day 2) and regional implementation (day 3).

The highlight of the conference is a roundtable on the evening of June 3rd with representatives of five sustainable economic models:

  • DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS | Kate Raworth, UK
  • POST GROWTH | Paul Schenderling, NL
  • CARE ECONOMY | Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, SA
  • SOCIAL AND SOLIDARY ECONOMY | Jason Nardi, IT
  • COMMON GOOD ECONOMY | Christian Felber, AT

The co-initiator of the conference is Austrian author and economic reformer Christian Felber, who will hold a keynote on the comparison of alternative economic models (“Future-fit economic models: What do they have in common – how can they join forces?”), a workshop on “Limited individual ecological consumption rights” and also at the roundtable for the economy for the common good.

Christian Felser is available for background discussions and interviews.

All information about the conference: https://www.wetsus.nl/ecgic-2024/ 

Austria: press-austria@ecogood.org | https://austria.ecogood.org

Germany: press-gemany@ecogood.org | https://germany.ecogood.org

ECOnGOOD international: press@ecogood.org | www.ecogood.org

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The Economy for the Common Good (GWÖ) was founded in Austria in 2010 and is now represented institutionally in 14 countries. She sees herself as a pioneer for social change in the direction of responsible, cooperative cooperation.

It enables...

... companies to look through all areas of their economic activity using the values ​​of the common good matrix in order to show common good-oriented action and at the same time gain a good basis for strategic decisions. The "common good balance sheet" is an important signal for customers and also for job seekers, who can assume that financial profit is not the top priority for these companies.

… municipalities, cities, regions to become places of common interest, where companies, educational institutions, municipal services can put a promotional focus on regional development and their residents.

... researchers the further development of the GWÖ on a scientific basis. At the University of Valencia there is a GWÖ chair and in Austria there is a master's course in "Applied Economics for the Common Good". In addition to numerous master's theses, there are currently three studies. This means that the economic model of the GWÖ has the power to change society in the long term.

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