18 October 2024
20 November 2024 — In the field of sustainability, socio-political, technological and economic strategies tend to prevail. Ecology and spirituality must then be undermined. On the Floor Day Ecological spirituality on October 18, 2024, spiritual thinkers stimulated the public from themes such as kinship, confusion, wonder, connectedness and perseverance to shape their lives in practice from a spiritual and ecological sustainability ideal.
7 October 2024
Socires is pleased to announce that Carmody Grey will be appointed special professor at the new special chair on 1 October Integral Ecology of the Laudato SIO-Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen.
12 September 2024
Philosopher Ward Huetink (Socires) and Denker des Vaderlands Marjan Slob are guests at the first episode of a new podcast Freedom and Connectivity presented by Bas Mesters. Marjan Slob talks about increasing solitude in society and Ward Huetink discusses new forms of connectedness and meaning that arise.
27 August 2024
Are you an ambitious young professional and do you want to work on your personal leadership by reflecting on in-depth questions about ecology, society, culture and personal values? Then the Young Professionals Program Integral Ecology 2024-2025 for you. You can register via the online form: forms.office.com/e/AkBLbYkLKK.
8 July 2024
With effect from 1 July 2024, René Peters will be the new President of the Supervisory Board of Socires. He succeeds Pieter van Geel, who after seven years says goodbye to Socires. The current Supervisory Board and staff of Socires are pleased to take over Peters.
15 April 2024
How can we promote this ecological citizenship? What does this require of society, business and politics? And what does this mean for the way in which public administration is directed? This was the subject of the so-called Lubbers symposium on Monday 13 May 2024 in The Hague.
18 March 2024
Socires and Sustainable Finance Lab organised a symposium on the future of Dutch banks on 6 February 2024 at 16:00 in the Thomaskerk, Amsterdam-Zuid, because despite good figures the future of Dutch banks is uncertain.
14 February 2024
Socires has a new director. On January 1, 2024, Kees Buitendijk officially took over the stick of Ewald Wermuth. Kees has been with since 2016 Socires On duty. He has been involved in the financial sector, ethics and society programmes in recent years; thinking of new applications of the Rhineland; and trust and social capital in politics and civil society.
13 December 2023
28 November 2023 — What is the responsibility of the financial sector and the young professional in combating fraud and terrorist financing, and combating money laundering? These and other questions were addressed at the first meeting of the Young Leaders programme in Finance. After the introductions of the speakers Jelle van Baardewijk (VU) and Willem Schudel (DNB), they spoke to each other and the participants under the direction of Annemarie Wehmeyer (Socires).
4 December 2023
Friday December 1st was a special day for Socires: the opening took place of the Para-University of Laudato-Sieb-Institute for Integral Ecology during a festive meeting at the university campus in Nijmegen. This institute was set up on the initiative of Socires and Radboud University. More than 150 people involved and interested from home and abroad had met at the Aula of Radboud University to attend the opening.