GSEF - Dr. Ilcheong Yi (UNRISD) Public Seminar

24 Feb, Seoul, South Korea

GSEF organised a public seminar on the 'Social Economy and SDGs - Perspectives of UN’. The seminar invited Dr. Ilcheong Yi, who is a senior researcher of UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) as a key note speaker, and the Secretary General of GSEF Laurence Kwark also shared GSEF’s efforts of mainstreaming the strategic importance of social economy as a means to achieve SDGs through a discussion session. For details and the summary of the discussion during the seminar will be documented the GSEF website.

Dr. Yi is in charge of UNRISD-GSEF's two year research project 'Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development: the Case of Social Economy in Seoul' and during his visit, he had a series of meetings with Seoul’s academics, policy makers and practitioners for coordinating the project.