Skip to main content
European Union flag
EU Proximity and Social Economy Platform

Time to Act: Cooperatives Gather to Tackle Global Crises

Events & Trainings

03 July 2025

Time to Act: Cooperatives Gather to Tackle Global Crises

Financing the ecosystem

Partnerships

Regenerative Green Transition

+33 more

Login / create an account to be able to react

  • 2

road sign at sunset

GICS 2025 brings together cooperative and social economy leaders to tackle urgent global challenges through innovation and local action.  

-
Torre Vedras, Portugal
Content source
Find out more
Authors

Editorial Team: Euricse

Topics
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

Other

Organisation Type

Academic / Research and VET Institutions

Business Support Organisation

Company with 250 or more employees

Cluster Organisations

Consumer Organisations

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 / Journalist Organisations

National authorities

Networks and Federations / Confederations

NGOs / Non-profits

Notified Bodies

Regional Authorities

SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)

Social Economy Entity

Trade Unions

Other

  • 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

    • Digital

  • Action areas and keywords

    • Access to Finance

    • Addressing capacity and skills gap

    • 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

    • Digital social innovation

    • Economic democracy

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

    • Internationalisation

    • Local employment

    • Local Markets

    • New business models

    • New European Bauhaus

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

    • Responsible (Public) Procurement

    • Social Finance

    • Socially oriented territorial regeneration

    • 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

Share

Cooperatives and social economy leaders will gather this 27-28 October in Torres Vedras, Portugal, for the 2025 Global Innovation Coop Summit (GICS). Held during the United Nations’ International Year of Cooperatives, the summit arrives at a time when communities everywhere are seeking fresh answers to old problems.  

Under the theme “Facing the Tipping Points”, this year’s edition invites practitioners to reflect on how cooperatives can respond more boldly to today’s interconnected crises: from climate instability to rising inequality and the erosion of social economies.  

With sessions focused on rebuilding trust, acting on values, and transforming work, GICS 2025 is designed as a space to connect, share what is working, and build momentum for change that sticks.  

Book your place and help shape what comes next at globalinnovation.coop

Comments (0)

See also

Did you find this useful? Please rate this page or, give us more feedback