Complementary Currencies As Social Innovations - Creating Money For Social-Ecological Transformation

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3JpF9Ul Complementary currencies have spread to many places around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Creating sustainable economic cycles and short transport routes are often the goals of introducing them. Due to their manageability, regional currencies can be embedded in debates of regional economics and sustainability. Above all, they are suitable for democratic experiments that can show in real environments whether currency designs work as examples of collaborative communities and research. Read Christian's new article on Creating Monetary Collaborative Spaces for Social and Ecological Transformation here Speaker: Christian Gelleri is a trained graduate teacher of economics and was awarded with degrees in business education at the University of Munich and business administration at the Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences. He has founded the Chiemgauer, the most successful local currency in Germany. As CEO of the Regios social cooperative he has significantly shaped the dissemination of local currencies in Europe and has a broad knowledge of the status and prospects of complementary currencies. His current research focusses on complementary currencies designed to promote sustainable value chains with a low carbon footprint (“Climate Bonus”). He has published in the field of Law & Economics with recent articles on “Reshaping the Future of Europe with Complementary Currencies” (2022) and “The Phenomenon of Complementary Currencies” (2021).