All over Québec, communities are spearheading initiatives that meet their needs, and often bring new ways of doing, seeing and conceiving local development. These initiatives feature business models that combine economic, social and environmental development. Through their way of doing things, they lead us to think and organize differently in order to reconcile these 3 priorities. These projects are inspiring their communities, and offer ways of doing things that can inspire the whole of Québec. In this sense, innovation comes from communities. So, in the face of global challenges, how can we rethink the way we do things in terms of housing, food security, environmental preservation and the reuse of materials? The social economy is an excellent vehicle for doing just that! Let’s develop a collective reflex and work together towards other economic logics.

*Conference in French

A conference by Béatrice Alain, executive director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale 

Béatrice Alain is executive director of the Chantier de l’économie sociale, an organization whose mission is to bring together actors and partners in the social economy to promote and develop collective entrepreneurship in Québec.

With a background in economics and political science, Béatrice is particularly interested in the implementation of diversified strategies to facilitate collective action in order to strengthen the development of the social economy. She held various positions in national and international organizations from 2001 to 2010. A member of Chantier’s permanent team since 2010, she assumes the general management of the organization in 2018. As responsible among others for international affairs and relations with regional actors in Québec, he has contributed over the years to position the Chantier as a point of convergence of the social economy. Among others, he was part of the organization of the International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy (2011) and led the Global Social Economy Forum -GSEF2016, co-organized with the City of Montréal. In addition to her duties at the Chantier, Béatrice is co-president of TIESS, a liaison and innovation transfer organization in the social economy, president of the Fiducie du Chantier de l’économie sociale, a patient capital fund for collective enterprises, member of the Conseil de l’innovation in Québec and participates in several international networks for the exchange and promotion of the social and solidarity economy.

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