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PSE Platform Ambassador highlight: Erdmuthe Klaer, REVES

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24 March 2025

PSE Platform Ambassador highlight: Erdmuthe Klaer, REVES

Financing the ecosystem

Partnerships

Regenerative Green Transition

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This article is part of a series of introductory pieces for the Ambassadors of the EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform. Ambassadors play a pivotal role in bridging connections among the ecosystem’s stakeholders. Today, we introduce Erdmuthe Klaer

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Editorial Team: Diesis

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Geographical descriptors

Albania

Armenia

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

EU-27

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Türkiye

Ukraine

Organisation Type

Academic/Research and VET Institutions

Business Support Organization

Company with 250 or more employees

Consumer / tourist organisation

Cultural and Heritage Organisations

Destination Management & Marketing Organisations

EU institutions

Financial Institutions and Investors

Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce

International Organisations

Local authorities

Media/Travel Journalist Organisations

National authorities

Networks and Federations / Confederations

NGOs / Non-profits

Regional authorities

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Social Economy Entity

Trade Unions

  • Thematic area

    • Financing the ecosystem

    • Partnerships

    • Regenerative Green Transition

    • Skills

    • Transformative Digital Transition

    • Urban and Rural Wellbeing

    • Working conditions and governance

  • Interlinkages with other sectors

    • Proximity and social economy

    • Agri-food

    • Construction

    • Cultural and creative industries

    • Digital

    • Electronics

    • Energy intensive industries

    • Energy-renewables

    • Health

    • Mobility, transport, automotive

    • Retail

    • Textile

    • Tourism

    • Aerospace and defence

  • Action areas and keywords

    • 15-minute city

    • Access to Finance

    • Access to technology

    • Addressing capacity and skills gap

    • Advancing gender equality and safety at work

    • Blue Economy

    • Boosting digital skills by - and in the social economy

    • Buy social

    • Certification, labelling and self-regulation

    • Circular Economy

    • Clusters (including Cluster of social and ecological innovation)

    • Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

    • Creating financial incentives and supportive regulation for green and circular social economy business models

    • Data Maturity and data driven business models

    • Data sharing, Data management & Code of Conduct

    • Digital Platforms

    • Digital social innovation

    • Economic democracy

    • Education

    • Future workplaces

    • Greening infrastructures and business operations

    • Housing

    • ICP rights & workers involvement

    • Industrial relation and social dialogue

    • Innovation

    • Innovation as enabler for green transition and business development in the social economy

    • Internationalisation

    • Local employment

    • Local Green Deals, green business communities and citizens’ initiatives

    • Local Markets

    • Micro mobility

    • New business models

    • New business models – the platform economy

    • New European Bauhaus

    • Other action area

    • Public and private tech partnerships and support

    • Reinforcing Business to Business collaboration for greener and circular value chains

    • Responsible (Public) Procurement

    • Smart mobility

    • Social Finance

    • Socially oriented territorial regeneration

    • Strategy for Data

    • Supporting Digital Social Innovation & Tech for Good entrepreneurship

    • Sustainable Finance

    • Tech for Good

  • Ecosystem focus

    • Proximity economy

    • Social economy

  • Scope of activity

    • International

    • Local/neighbourhood

    • National

    • Regional

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Erdmuthe Klaer is Deputy Secretary General of the European Network of Cities and Regions of the Social Economy (REVES), but also in her private life involved in several social economy-related organisations and community initiatives.  

REVES is the European network which promotes partnership between cities/regions and the social & solidarity economy.  Social economy is considered, by REVES member cities and regions, as an important cornerstone of local development and co-design of related policies and actions a key of success for the latter.  

Their thematic focus would therefore mainly be on urban and rural wellbeing as well as on partnership.

Topics they are interested to discuss with the wider network on the PSE Platform include, for instance:

  • New ways and means for local communities to re-appropriate and use urban and rural space (and the role local/regional governments can play here);
  • Inter-cooperation between different players of the social economy (including the role of informal community initiatives and their relation to the social economy, on one hand, and local/regional governments, on the other);
  • The role of local/regional governments in counteracting “green washing” and “social washing” in a time where “green”, “social” and “participation” are successfully used in marketing strategies of an increasing number of new commercial initiatives (mainly, but not only, in urban areas);
  • Third places, Incubators, Clusters of social and environmental innovation, etc. – many interesting initiatives have been set up recently in different cities and regions and stimulate cooperation between social economy organisations and other actors. However – how can they better reach out from these places to the local communities around them and encourage citizens, including most marginalised groups, to get involved? 

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"We will encourage our members and partners to use the Proximity and Social Economy Platform as a networking space, but also and above all a tool allowing to extend ongoing discussions in working groups and events to a wider community, share their own practices and know-how, and acquire knowledge by learning from the experiences made by others."

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