Local Needs, Global Lessons: How the Social and Solidarity Economy Works, Gets Funded and Is Reinvented by Young People — Session 13 Research Book

Research book prepared for EYES Session 13 (11 September 2026). Six parts: what Session 12 fed into Session 13; how the SSE is defined, recognised and funded (ILO 2022, EU Social Economy Action Plan 2021, OECD 2022, UN resolutions 77/281 and 79/213, Council Recommendation 2023, African SSE laws); the networks that support it (RIPESS, RAESS, ICA, UNTFSSE, GSEF); six themes with real cases (Kudumbashree, Mondragón, Kuapa Kokoo, Kenyan SACCOs, SEWA…); digital platforms and cooperatives; and young people in the SSE. Every source is listed in a link register with a five-pass verification annex.

The record contains the English and the French edition (two PDFs).

Produced within EYES – Empowering Youth: Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange for Active Citizenship and Social Inclusion (grant agreement 101193489, ERASMUS-EDU-2024-VIRT-EXCH), coordinated by ABARKA ONGD (Spain), with WEBDEV FOUNDATION (Cameroon) leading the Quarter 3 thematic block on the Social and Solidarity Economy. Partners: Associazione Stella Marina (Italy), EKO (Greece), Karaman Youth Club (Türkiye), ONG SIFOS (Gabon), ITO (Nigeria), AIESEC Alumni Ghana. Platform: www.eyesnetwork.org.

Use of artificial intelligence. Drafting, translation and source checking were assisted by Claude (Anthropic), based on the project's primary data (session transcripts, attendance registers, surveys, quiz exports) and on the authors' direction; the authors reviewed the text and are responsible for its publication.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.