10 March 2025
If one thing becomes clear during the Green Faith Rites symposium, it is the need for it. On Monday evening 10 March 2025, the Lutheran Church in Utrecht is full. Several experts tell about the role and meaning of rituals and there is also room to participate together in old and new rituals.
20 February 2025
On 20 February 2025 organized Socires and FoodFIRST a think session on the geo-economic positioning of the Netherlands. The conversation was initiated by Ruth Mampuys. Then we talked to the participants about the geopolitical context and the implications for the Netherlands.
23 January 2025
On 23 January 2025 the third and last meeting of the Socires Young Leaders in Ecology program 2024-2025. We were thinking about the third dimension of the soul Integral Ecology, besides climate (Soil) and society (Society). What's gotten into us to act? Does that have to do with spirituality, faith, mystery, complexity or anything else? NRC journalist Wouter van Noort shared his personal experiences and talked to the participants about his search for symbiotic journalism.
12 December 2024
In November 2024, Carmody Grey, the new professor of medicine, brought Integral Ecology at Radboud University Nijmegen, her first visit to the Netherlands. The special chair is an initiative of Socires. Socires-workers Ward Huetink and Ellen Klaver interviewed her for magazine Volzin about the relationship between ecology and spirituality, her personal motivations and the importance of the humanities.
4 December 2024
Young Leaders started in Finance 2024-2025 on 26 November 2024. Julia van Boven and Jelle van Baardewijk spoke to ING about Moral ambition under the direction of moderator Annemarie Wehmeyer.
2 December 2024
Organised on 21 November Socires the second meeting of the Young Leaders in Ecology. Young professionals talked to Heleen van den Berg, CEO of Cordaid, about the social dimension of Integral Ecology.
30 November 2024
On November 30, 2024, the new book Zin in Society was presented in the Walkart community in Zeist. The book is one of the results of the first year of the Socires-Program Structures of Sense. In this program Socires in collaboration with Vrijzielen Nederland research into the emergence of new social connections and contemporary forms of meaning.
11 November 2024
Young Leaders in Finance (YLF) is the leadership program for young professionals in finance and goes to autumn 2024. The series of seminars is about important economic and social developments in life of the young professional who wants to develop further in personal, professional social leadership and strengthen their network with industry leaders and other motivated high-potentials. You can sign up at Dooitze de Jong (d.dejong@Socires) or in your participating youth organisation.
6 November 2024
FoodFIRST, one of the programmes of Socires, organises a symposium on 29 November in collaboration with the NICC and the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University to look back at 75 years of international cooperation for food security and agriculture. You can login via: https://lnkd.in/gBpgX7eS.
24 October 2024
On 1 October, the group of 25 ambitious young professionals gathered for the first meeting of the Young Leaders in Ecology. The guest was Marianne Thieme, sustainability strategist, publicist and theologian. Gerard Kuperus, a million-dollar philosopher at the Laudato Si' Institute in Nijmegen, gave an introduction.