{"id":80658,"date":"2025-01-16T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epeka.si\/?p=80658"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:13:05","slug":"monday-talk-beyond-business-as-usual-how-to-cooperatively-advance-a-local-democratic-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/monday-talk-beyond-business-as-usual-how-to-cooperatively-advance-a-local-democratic-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Talk &#8211; Beyond business as usual: how to cooperatively advance a local democratic economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">June 23, 2025<br \/>\nWeb<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Representatives of the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, will participate in an online seminar from the Monday Talks series: Beyond Business as Usual: How to Contribute to the Advancement of the Local Democratic Economy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cMonday Talks \u2013 Beyond Business as Usual\u201d<\/strong> is a three-part series aimed at opening up collaborative and democratic dialogue in the Western Balkans. Through practical discussions, interactive tools, and success stories, we will explore how cooperative entrepreneurship can promote a sustainable, democratic, and inclusive local economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This initiative is part of the #coops4devprogramme, jointly led by Cooperatives Europe and ALDA, and is in line with the objectives of the International Year of Cooperatives 2025, proclaimed by the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why participate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Discover how cooperatives can promote social and economic change.<\/li>\n<li>Learn directly from successful cooperative projects in the fields of tourism, youth entrepreneurship, and cultural heritage.<\/li>\n<li>Network with actors from the cooperative sector and the local democracy sector.<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to shaping future actions in the Western Balkans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1.jpg\" class=\"themewich-lightbox\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal alignnone wp-image-85809 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1-740x370.jpg 740w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Organizatorji-1-600x300.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Printscreen of the webinar:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-300x205.png\" class=\"themewich-lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal alignnone wp-image-80672 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-1024x699.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-1024x699.png 1024w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-768x524.png 768w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-1500x1023.png 1500w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-740x505.png 740w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk-600x409.png 600w, https:\/\/epeka.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Monday-Talk.png 1511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23, 2025 Web <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Representatives of the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, will participate in an online seminar from the Monday Talks series: Beyond Business as Usual: How &#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/monday-talk-beyond-business-as-usual-how-to-cooperatively-advance-a-local-democratic-economy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":85724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,42,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-izobrazevanje-en","category-events","category-first-page"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monday Talk - Beyond business as usual: how to cooperatively advance a local democratic economy - EPEKA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/monday-talk-beyond-business-as-usual-how-to-cooperatively-advance-a-local-democratic-economy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monday Talk - Beyond business as usual: how to cooperatively advance a local democratic economy - EPEKA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"June 23, 2025 Web Representatives of the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, will participate in an online seminar from the Monday Talks series: Beyond Business as Usual: How ... 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