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A project that joins Social Economy Forces towards Community development, Connected societies, Co-creation of knowledge and Collaborative education practices.
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The SE4Ces project brought together higher education institutions and social economy (SE) organisations to strengthen cooperation between academia and the SE sector, and to make SE education more practice-based and connected to real community needs.
Overall, the project’s goals were to build long-term collaboration between universities and Social Economy actors, and to develop and implement innovative, collaborative teaching and learning approaches grounded in social economy values (e.g., participation, co-creation, experiential learning). Through joint work across the consortium, SE4Ces aimed to produce educational resources and methods (including open online materials), pilot them with learners and practitioners, and support the creation of a broader community of practice around SE education, so that future SE professionals and organisations can benefit from more relevant skills, tools, and learning pathways.
FEBEA’s role, as a European umbrella network in ethical and alternative finance, was to bring the perspective, needs, and practical experience of the ethical finance field into the project’s collaboration with universities and other Social Economy actors, helping ensure that the project remained connected to real-world practice and to the priorities of financial social economy stakeholders.
Concretely, FEBEA’s contribution would have centred on mobilising and engaging its network, supporting cross-country cooperation and dissemination, and facilitating connections between educators, students, and ethical finance organisations relevant to the project’s aims. By participating as a partner beneficiary, FEBEA helped strengthen the project’s bridge between academic work and the professional ecosystem of social economy finance, supporting the project’s broader objective of building durable university–SE collaboration and increasing the visibility and uptake of SE4Ces results beyond the immediate consortium.