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Da das Webinar auf Englisch stattfindet, ist auch die Beschreibung auf Englisch.

As part of a two-day workshop in Vienna, Dr Jonathan Dolley of the University of Sussex is hosting a webinar to introduce the Hansalim Cooperative Federation. With over 800,000 members, Hansalim is Korea's largest multi-stakeholder food cooperative and brings producers and consumers together in a unique example of economic democracy for sustainable food and farming. Hansalim's journey from a single rice store in 1986 to a national federation of organic and eco-friendly producer and consumer cooperatives can provide an inspiring example and useful lessons for those in Austria and beyond who are seeking sustainable transformations in food systems. This webinar provides a first step in building bridges between Hansalim and the European alternative food system movements and is organised in collaboration with RCE Graz, BOKU Vienna, Morgenrot Vienna and the Mosim and Salim Research Institute, Hansalim, Korea.

This event is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 892403.

Webinar participants are also invited to attend an in-person workshop hosted at the Morgenrot shop at Dornerplatz 6, Vienna on Friday 5th July 15:00-18:00 followed by an opportunity for informal socialising. The goal of the workshop is to identify practical ways to promote economic democracy in food systems in Austria, taking inspiration from Hansalim's experience and the innovative solidarity-based food system initiatives in Europe.

Please complete this form to register for the event and a link will be sent to you by email the day before the webinar.

Agenda and speakers:

09:00: Ok-ja Kwon (President of Hansalim Federation)

• Introduction to the federation.

• Her personal journey with Hansalim.

09:20: Q&A with Ok-ja Kwon.

09:30: Dr Jonathan Dolley (University of Sussex).

• Rethinking the cooperative identity from the margins - interpreting New Cooperativism in the light of the Hansalim experiment in democratic solidarity-based food systems.

10:00: Dr Miseong Cho (Mosim and Salim Research Institute, Hansalim).

• Examples of transformative learning in the Hansalim Life Movement.

10:30: Martin Gerstl (Morgenrot).

• Ambitions for food system transformation in Austria.

• Collection of written questions - gathering questions from webinar participants. 1) Questions for Hansalim. 2) What questions do you want researchers to help answer?

11:00 END.

Ok-ja Kwon: Ok-ja Kwon joined Hansalim as a member in 1995, and has served as the President of Hansalim Seoul, Director of Activities, and Executive Director of Seoul Food Solidarity. She has focused her efforts on local activities and solidarity activities centred on food based on her rich experience in local movements. She was elected as President of Hansalim Federation in 2023.

Jonathan Dolley: Dr Jonathan Dolley is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit), University of Sussex Business School. Since 2009 he has been researching the impacts of urbanisation and industrialisation on farming and food systems. Through case studies in Wuhan and Delhi he studied the impacts of urbanisation and changing food systems on resilience and social justice. Since moving to Korea in 2020 his focus is on how technical and social innovations in food systems can enable transformative change toward sustainability. He is currently completing a 3 year research project looking at Hansalim as a case study of solidarity-based food system transformation.

Miseong Cho: Dr Miseong Cho is a senior researcher at the Mosim & Salim Research Institute and a guest lecturer of Seoul National University. After spending many years working as an educator in alternative schools in Korea, she received her master’s degree with a research dissertation titled: “A qualitative case study on forming and learning process of a community for energy transition initiative.”(2016, SNU). Her doctoral thesis “Citizen participation and transformative learning in energy transition: the case of a zero energy housing complex" (2020, SNU). Her main research interests include climate change education, scientific-technological citizenship, deliberative democracy in cooperatives.

Martin Gerstl: Martin Gerstl is a business consultant for new food systems and speaker of the Vienna Food Policy Council. He worked for 15 years for an international grocery chain and uses his experience to support alternatives to the existing food system. He is a board member of Morgenrot eG in Vienna which is a cooperative that follows the Hansalim approach of bringing together producers and consumers. He is also co-owner of LotzApp, which provides ERP-systems for food system actors and is currently working in a pilot project together with the city of Vienna, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and Thinkport Vienna to implement a decentralised logistics network for the greater Viennese area to support alternative food systems.

Here is the scheduled zoom meeting link:

Topic: Solidarity-based Food System Transformations

Time: Jul 4, 2024 08:45 AM Vienna for a 09:00 start.

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https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98884717240?pwd=Dh09RaFabl2qfF8NcM0YlvhTUa13G7.1

Meeting ID: 988 8471 7240

Passcode: 228061

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