Along With the main forum, the 2 ^nd  General Assembly of GSEF was held and Important items Agenda of the association : such as deciding the next hosting city GSEF2018 Were formally approved through the General Assembly. Below is the list of key decisions made by the GA approval.

▶ Host City for the Next General Assembly 2018

GA elected Bilbao City, Spain; The leading SSE city in Europe as a host city of the GSEF2018.

▶ Election of Chair-city & Co-chair of GSEF for 2016 - 2018

The city of Seoul has renewed its mandate as the Chair-city of GSEF (Seoul Metropolitan Government: Greater Won-Soon Park, Seoul Social Economy Network: Rev. Kyong Yong Song).

▶ Approval of New Membership Applications

GA formally approved 10 new membership applications The list of new GSEF members are

RIPESS (International Network), The Mont Blanc Meetings (International Network), City of Bilbao (Spain), Taichung City Government (Taiwan), City of Bamako (Mali), Mexico City Council (Mexico), Maison du Millénaire , Institut des nations, INDC (Tunisia / Morocco), Network of Civic Education (DRC), Network of Social Economy (Ecuador)

▶ Election of New Steering Committee Members for the period 2016-2018

RIPESS, the Mont-Blanc Meetings, City of Bilbao  are approved to be the new GSEF Steering Committee members (full membership) and current GSEF SC members Their Renewed mandate for the period of 2016-2018.

▶ GSEF joined the leading SSE Networks: RIPESS, Association of the Mont-Blanc Meetings (MBM) and International Leading Group of the SSE

GSEF RIPESS joined as a member, a board member of The Mont-Blanc Meetings and an observer of  the International Leading Group  of the SSE.

Moreover, other agenda items such as approval of GSEF 2017-2018 activity plans, charter amendments, achieving the legal status were discussed. To check out all items Agenda Discussed During the GA GSEF2016 you can download the booklet and the outcome GA report  on the GSEF website .