Social and solidarity enterprises participating in the panel on November 4

Acção para a Justiça e Paz – AJPaz – is an association seeking to build a peace culture, based on the respect for the rights of all persons, the parity, inclusive and participatory democracy, the cognitive and social justice and a healthy environment capable of giving and preserving life. Its goals are the following: promoting the dialogue between feminism, peace and demilitarization, reinforcing actions of struggle against poverty and violence and developing anti-hegemonic connections between the local and the global. AJPaz develops projects which attempt to combine the Solidarity Economy dimension with other emancipation perspectives, such as the education for citizenship, gender equality and respect for diversity.

AgriCabaz is a network of people working together to support the development of small local productions, based in Coimbra. These people are farmers, artisans, micro-entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and consumers.
AgriCabaz aims at selling quality products which allow to prepare healthy meals, contributing towards the distribution of small productions, promoting local economies and, also, participating on the solidarity economy movement, reinforcing the commitments to society, environment, culture and justice.

The Social Incubator of the Faculty of Economics (ISFEUC) is an innovative academic initiative which promotes activities of interaction between the community and the academic space, releasing the knowledge, teaching and the research in order to strengthen the social organizations of Coimbra. Its framework lies in the broader thematic scope of articulation between the academy and the community, seeking to establish and strengthen the network relationships between different social agents, favouring the exchange of knowledge and competences between the University and the Third Sector Institutions.

Coisas do Vizinho is a Project which aims at creating a community based on the exchange of second-hand goods, as well as locally produced goods and services, and inviting all neighbours who buy and sell in that community to gather in a group of people aware of the power that the community can have. The project attempts to contribute towards the reduction of carbon emissions, both through the idea of Reuse that the second-hand store represents and through the support given to the Project Horta do Vizinho, which promotes the production and consumption of local/regional and most likely biological agricultural products, with consequences to the reduction of energy consumption.