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At the conclusion of the PIE News project, the main results and interesting issues of the Commonfare project will be presented and discussed during the Commonfare Final Conference that will be held in Trento (Italy) between the 29th May and the 2nd June 2019 at the...

Three days of intense debate and comparison between different European and international visions of the "occupied and recovered factories". This term, which became famous after the Argentine experience at the beginning of the millennium, is intended to represent the...

The Commonfare project will be presented at the Macro Asilo in Rome the 9th April 2019 at 10 am, within the event "For an innovative, plural, open and supportive right to the city. Cultural work, widespread precariousness, social cooperation, collective undertaking"....

"New Monetary and Financial Models for New Economies" On 28 March 2019, in Barcelona, the workshop "New Monetary and Financial Models for New Economies" was held, organized by Novact with the collaboration of the Municipality of Barcelona, Finance Watch, the...

On March 28th in Barcelona the Italian partner BIN Italia will held a public presentation of the Commonfare project. The meeting is organized in collaboration with the Novact Association and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunia, and under the patronage of the...

Commonfare project partners will be attending the Sharing & Caring COST Action International Interdisciplinary Symposium "Exploring the Aspects of the Collaborative Economy" taking place at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics on March 15th in Zagreb,...

The Macao appropriation of the commonfare.net core element for a circular economy, the Commoncoin, is under discussion around Europe! Emanuele Braga will present the Macao experimentation of a circular economy and basic income for the internal community based on...

In the article "No land for youth", popular news portal kulturpunkt.hr reviews the research on the situation of young people on the labour market in Croatia, noting the feelings of hopelessness and apathy towards improvements in their situation, and calling on young...

Friday, December 21st, Chiara Bassetti (University of Trento) and Mariacristina Mk Sciannamblo (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute) presented Commonfare at the workshop "Post-start Up Cultures", which took place in Naples on December 20th and 21st, 2018. The...

How to co-operate, make some money, bake a pancake and listen to some music? Together with the keyholders of Egberts Lent, artist Henry Alles has recently organized a flea market that wanted to be just a bit more than just a way to make some money. Commonfare partner...

Commonfare was proud to present the 6th National Conference on Precarious Work in Slovenia, entitled "Modern slavery: precariousness on the labour market" held on Wednesday, November 28th from 16:00 to 19:30h at Mestnega Hall, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and attended by...

Commonfare joined the Web Summit 2018, held in Lisbon from from November 5th to November 8th, as part of the Social Innovation Village. The Web Summit is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The topic of the conference is centered on internet technology...

The #commonfare presentation tour continues. This time we did a stop in Milan at the ANPI section of the Town Hall 1. The appointment was for Wednesday, October 10th, from 21:00 to 23:00, at the Association of the Municipal House of Volunteers, Via Marsala 8, Milan....

Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Commonfare pilot partner BIN Italia presented the Commonfare project in Athens (Greece), at the Connect Athens youth center. CONNECT ATHENS is a center born at the beginning of 2014 thanks to a group of volunteers with the aim of...

The Commonfare.net research program met the summer school of Euronomade, from 13 to 16 September 2018 at Passignano sul Trasimeno (Italy), during the panel entitled "The welfare of the common". In front of a careful audience of about one hundred people, the main...

Thursday 5 July in Milan, at Piano Terra, a social center managed by different Milanese collectives operating on the territory and on the subject of precariousness, a dissemination events took place with the presentation of the Commonfare.net platform. The meeting was...

Commonfare leveraged on the collaboration with the Families-share project to better attract and meet people during the Festival of Economics in Trento, 1-3 June. The two CAPS projects funded by the European Commission have been promoted by Fondazione Bruno Kessler,...

Commonfare will join the forthcoming Festival of Economics 2018, which will take place in Trento (Italy), from May 31st to June 3rd! The Commonfare partner FBK CREATE-NET will manage an infopoint to share information about commonfare.net with local population and the...

We announce that the new release (R3) of the commonfare.net platform is online since the 30th of April 2018. The new release is actually only in English, multilanguage will be available during the next days, briefly what is new: A revised graphic interface and many...

Sandro Gobetti and Rachele Serino from Commonfare Italian pilot partner Basic Income Network Italy will present the Commonfare project and the research “Precarious Generations” (Commonfare Book Series nr. 1) at the event titled "Stories of the Possible, comparison...

On March 17th 2018, Commonfare and Commonfare.net have been presented at the Manifattura Milano Camp within the Milano Digital Week. The event, which took place in the Milano LUISS Hub for Makers and Students, has been organized by the Municipality of Milan and the...

The Dyne.org collective is developing Commonfare's Social Wallet, a participatory budgeting system deployed in cooperation with the Macao squatted social center in Milano and the Fair.coop network. Dyne.org's work is nominated for the Prix-Ars digital communities...

A meeting entitled 'Commonfare. Precariousness, emerging needs, and social innovation' took place on the 9th of November in Rome in one of the most interesting co-working spaces of the city. The meeting was organised by the Italian partner of the PIE News / Commonfare...

On October 28th-29th 2017, a seminar on Commonfare took place in Milan, hosted by Macao, as one of the project’s dissemination events. The seminar was organized jointly by the Effimera network and Bin-Italia under the title: “Social Co-operation, Self-Determination,...

On the 9th of November, a meeting entitled “Precarity, Emerging Needs, Innovation and social co-operation” will be held in Rome at the Co-Work space in Via. N. Odero n. 13 (Metro Garbatella). The meeting is promoted and organised by BIN Italia and it will begin at 6pm...

From 28 to 29 October 2017 two days of meetings and debates will take place in Milan (Italy) under the banner: "Social co-operation, self-determination, commonfare". These activities will take place at the social space Macao, located at V.le Molise 68 in Milano. This...

Over the past couple of months, pilot partner Museu da Crise has collaborated intensely with the Rotterdam Social Alliance (RoSA!) on writing their ‘Manifest Towards a New and Fair Poverty Policy in Rotterdam 2018’. After distributing the Manifest to thousands and...

The dissemination of Commonfare as a new approach to welfare provision from the bottom up has been presented on 11th September at the public conference  EmpoderaLive2017 (http://empodera.org/en/empoderalive-2017/), organised by Fundación Cibervoluntarios in Malaga,...

The interest on Commonfare both as research project and as proposal for a new welfare idea is growing up in Italy. This positive trend is witnessed by the qualified presence and the good results of the meeting held in Milano, October 4th, as the second dissemination...

The 1st of October 2017 'Nòva', the digital innovation chapter of Il Sole 24 Ore (the primary Italian newspaper on economics and finance) published an on-line article on Commonfare.net and the PIE News project. Starting from the presentation of Commonfare at the event...

Looking at the number of European research projects that are developing in its territory, Milan is by all means a European city. In this spirit, the city of Milan is glad to host the official presentation of the European research project Commonfare/PIE News, which...

We are glad to organize a round table about Basic Income and Commonfare, which will be held  Tuesday, September 26, 2017 in the scope of the 17th Basic Income Earth Network(BIEN) Congress in Lisbon (Portugal). Andrea Fumagalli (Commonfare and Bin Italia) and Maurizio...

As people, researchers, workers, and activists engaged in Commonfare, we are committed to building a narrative that represents our goals as well as our ethical and political aspirations. In the spirit of a participatory design project, as Commonfare is, we are drawing...

Four EU Horizon2020 CAPS projects, commonfare, empatia, MAZI, and netCommons, collaborate in the organization of a workshop titled "Participatory Design, beyond the local", hosted at the 8th conference on Community & Technologies, June 26-30, Troyes, France. The...

In mid January we, the Commonfare consortium, met in Zagreb to discuss what we did so far and to organize the next phases of participatory design activities. There, we worked with Croatian participants on the design of the platform and we engaged in collective...

Between the 16th and the 20th of January 2017 the PIE News project partners will meet in Tuheljske Toplice, close to Zagreb - Croatia, for a General Assembly and a project workshop also involving future platform users....