ENTI 2010 – Strasbourg

F. BAULARD

Non-profit making home help and care in Franche-Comté.

Services associatifs d’aide et soins à domicile en Franche-Comté.

Asociación de servicios de apoyo y asistencia a domicilio en Franche-Comté.

The sector of the home help knows a strong development for some years, in reason in particular of the ageing of the population. In Franche-Comté, associations created the first regional professional collective of France. It represents more than 4000 employees. The employment is there mainly feminine and (…) Read more…

C. SÉLIMANOVSKI, Université de Montpellier, France

This communication deals with the necessity to build theories on the spatial dimension of poverty so that we can use analysis and action charts for more social equity and territorial efficiency. As Europe is a vast region of the world, it is both a question of developing a theory which permits us to grasp the model of the spatial inscription of poverty and of determining its local regional or national variations. In that way, innovation consists in showing the importance of the effects of place associated with poverty and highlighting the “unthought of” about territory as regards the implementation of public policies dealing with poverty.

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Jean-Guy HENCKEL, , social entrepreneur, National Director of Network Cocagne, director of the Laboratory of Social Solidarity Economy – entrepreneur social, directeur national du Réseau Cocagne, administrateur du Laboratoire de l’Économie Sociale et Solidaire

Fifty proposals for the alternative development affirming the centrality of the human being.

Cinquante propositions pour un autre mode de développement affirmant la centralité de l’être humain.

Cincuenta propuestas para el desarrollo alternativo afirmando la centralidad del ser humano.

In the 70s, then a educator in a shelter center, Jean-Guy Henckel becomes a “social entrepreneur” by founding a carpentry shop with some colleagues for insertion of excluded people. He creates the first “Jardin de Cocagne” which combines the principle of short distribution channels, that of work integration for persons in great difficulty and the specifications of organic farming. The network currently has more  100 gardens (jardins de Cocagne), which employs 3,000 people, half of them find a job or vocational training of their choice. It provides weekly to 20,000 families of members-consumers a basket of organic vegetables.

The social and solidarity economy (SSE) brings together a wide range of economic initiatives which comes within neither the public sector nor the capitalist field. Claude ALPHANDERY, honorary president of France Active, has launched as part of the Laboratory of Economic and Social Solidarity, with support from the Fondation Charles Leopold Mayer for the Progress of Man, a broad reflection in this perspective that led to the report “50 proposals to change course”.

Jean-Guy HENCKEL will summarize:

• From reflection to a development alternative fueled values and best practices from the ESS and which affirms the centrality of man rather than the state or capital
• From 50 operational proposals to shift the economy as a whole.

www.reseaucocagne.asso.fr

www.lelaboess.fr

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