PRESERVE AND DEVELOP THIRD PLACES BASED ON THE LOGIC OF THE COMMONS.Seminar returns and interpretations dedicated to Third Places, Fablabs and EAC from November 26, 2019 in Strasbourg.

PRESERVE AND DEVELOP THIRD PLACES BASED ON THE LOGIC OF THE COMMONS.

SUMMARY

2A seminar on the initiative of Cooperer pour Entreprendre, in the dynamic of "Act through the commons".

4Activate rights in these times of self-employed.

8The Third Places in the heart of democratic challenges.

12Proposals for collective actions to strengthen the logic of the commons.

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2PRESERVE AND DEVELOP THIRD PLACES BASED ON THE LOGIC OF THE COMMONS.

A seminar on the initiative of Cooperer pour Entreprendre, in the dynamic of "Act through the commons"

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On November 26, 2019, Strasbourg, then European capital of the social and solidarity economy, hosted at the Shadok a seminar dedicated to the convergence between Third Places, EAC and Fablabs, on the initiative of Cooperer pour Entreprendre, a national network of activity and employment coopera-tives, with the support of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg and the European Social Fund.

56 participants came from Liège, Lyon, Ma-lakoff, Bordeaux, Paris, Strasbourg, Wor-claw, from the world of research, cooperative companies, cultural places, national fablab networks or EAC, from public establishments or even communities, have thus responded to the invitation.

This day is part of the action research dynamic "Acting through the commons".Co-initiated in 2019 by several actors1, “Acting through the commons” is based on the following premise: Third-Places and fablabs are spaces where action through the commons is expe-rienced.

"The Third Places and the fablabs constitute a dramatic unity (place, time and action) which makes it possible to make visible the difficul-ties crossed by the commons and to observe the practical solutions which are brought to them locally. […] It seems interesting to analyze the way in which third places and fablabs make the commons active."2

On June 14, 2019 in Paris, a first day of work bringing together some forty participants en-abled the first lines of work to be initiated, in-cluding the central question of law.“The question of the law appeared to us to be a key element. To restore the capacity for action to these places and more generally to the com-mons, the law is able to provide answers.Indeed, in the absence of structured reflection on the law, there are today a certain number of precarious local arrangements and ‘do-it-your-self’ which are real brakes on the sustainability of Third Places and fablabs. "

This seminar of November 26, 2019 allowed to deepen the question of law, through the particu-lar prism of social protection of self-employed workers present in Third Places, and drawing on the experience of EAC in terms of social protec-tion.

In a French context marked by:

• a strong institutionalization of Third Places and a consequent territorial and social demand,

• a great diversity of practices claiming the term Third Place,

This seminar also deepened the issues relating to the identity of Third Places, which are part of a logic of general and common interest, as well as possible lines of common action.

A big Thank-youTo the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, SHADOK and all the participants.

Find out more• Consult the guide sent before the seminar,

gathering the first contributions.

• "Acting through the Commons" carries out a documentation mission and draws on all the meetings and work carried out by the initia-tors and any actor interested in a subject. All documents linked to it, including taking notes on 26/11, are available at: https: //pad.lamyne.org/cget-tilios-rfflabs-agir-communs

• The content of the publication was poured in creative commons on Movilab, resource site around Third Places: https://movilab.org/wiki/Contenu_publication_post-seminaire_Stras-bourg_26/11/2019

1 - Le pôle“stratégie de recherche et d’innovation” du CGET, le “Réseau Français des FabLabs”, le réseau des « Tiers-Lieux Libre et Open Source » et artfactories/ autresparts.

2 - Intention note on « acting through the commons », on May 13, 2019.

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ACTIVATE RIGHTS IN THESE TIMES OF SELF-EMPLOYED

"WE LIKE TO CALL IT ONBOARDING"

EAC, RIGHTS ACTIVATOR IN GRAY EMPLOYMENT AREAS

A few weeks before the seminar, Ken Loach's “Sorry we missed you” room was released. A fi lm of a hundred minutes during which the spectator watched, helplessly, the sinking of

Ricky, a deliveryman dependent on a payer now exempt from all managerial responsibility, all under the Orwellian control of an imposing platform an inhuman cadence.

Courtesy of Why not Productions, the Ricky job interview reproduced above was screened to introduce the fi rst work sequence dedicated to workers’ rights in Third Places. Not that Ricky seems to us representative of the current users of Third Places - it seems unlikely to us that he naturally pushes the door -, but because

it shows us the absence of social protection from which today in Great Britain as in France and elsewhere, the workers of the poor on so-called uberized platforms suffer, forced into self-entrepreneurship, isolated and deprived of any protection historically associated with employment.

The incentive to self-enterprise without a net predates "Sorry we missed you" or even the ar-rival of platforms, as do its alternatives. The fi rst activity and employment cooperatives (EAC) thus date back to the end of the 90s, with a great originality a modelclaiming access and retention in the right for workers living on their own activity:

• Social rights: The status of salaried entre-preneur gives them access to the protection attached to salaried work: unemployment be-nefi ts, retirement, mutual health insurance, management of professional risks, as well as access to derived rights: access to housing,

access to a bank loan, priority access to the crèche for example.

• Right to support: learning, the right to test and to error for all is at the heart of the EAC, whose primary mission is support.

• Right to decision: As a cooperative, the EAC gives right to decision. Salaried entrepreneurs are not customers but have the vocation to be-come EAC partners, to participate to the go-vernance bodies of the EAC and to debate the orientations of their common working tool.

"You don’t get hired here. You come onboard. We like to call it "onboarding".

You don't work for us, you work with us. You don’t drive for us, you perform

services. There’s no employment contracts. No performance targets. We

meet delivery standards. There’s no wages, but fees. […] No clocking on, you

become available. […] Like everything around here Ricky, it’s your choice."

Sorry We Missed You, Ken Loach

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Is access to rights the only impact of the EAC? Cooperer pour Entreprendre has been carrying out a national experiment since 2019 in order to develop the capa-city of EACs and Third Places to produce impact studies. Among the other effects currently analyzed are notably the qua-

lity of life at work, the acquisition of so-cial or civic skills, the revitalization of ter-ritories. The experiment is supported by the European Social Fund, the Brittany, Grand-Est and Nouvelle-Aquitaine re-gions.

Although the EAC represents a “form of institutional inventiveness in terms of social protection” by allowing access to rights, the phenomenon of non-use of rights still exists. The research project "Activity and Employment Coopera-tives (EAC) grappling with social pro-tection issues, Proposals for a qualita-

tive analysis model applicable to gray employment areas" currently carried out in EAC by researchers Flora Bajard and Maya Leclercq will provide a better understanding of why, even under fa-vorable conditions, the phenomena of non-recourse to the rights associated with employee status remain frequent.

Study the phenomenon of non-use of rights in EAC

EAC AND THIRD PLACES, STRONG COMPLEMENTARITIES AND ONGOING SYNERGIESEAC and Third Places are today two complemen-tary solutions for the self-employed. Nearly half of the entrepreneurs supported in EAC (CPE es-timates) work in Third-Places. Conversely, the business of supporting the entrepreneurial pro-ject becomes an axis of diversifi cation for many Third Places hosting freelancers.

In France, the fi rst convergences are at work to-day and can take the form of common structures. The cultural EAC Consortium Cooperative thus partici-pated in the creation of the third place Les Usines nou-velles (Ligugé) and hosts its headquarters there. The EAC Oxalis and the third place La Myne (Lyon) have created the shared struc-ture Oxamyne. Finally in

Strasbourg, Cooproduction, a SCIC bringing to-gether 3 EAC, is co-leading the third place Kaléi-dosCOOP, which will see the light of day in 2021.

In addition, the membership of EAC and a growing number of Third Places in the coope-rative movement (SCIC or SCOP) could in the future accelerate these rapprochements. The “EAC and Third Place” study carried out at the end of 2018 by Aurélien Denaes, co-mana-ger of the cooperative third place CASACO, for the General Confederation of Scop notes “a na-tural link [of the EAC] with Third Places or so-called cooperatives spaces” and thus already identifi ed 42 existing or planned cooperative Third Places.Referring to Oxamyne’s experience, Nicolas Lou-bet invites us to consider, through the rappro-chement between EAC and Third Places, that of "commoners and cooperativists".Le

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WHAT PERCEPTION OF PROTECTION FOR WORKERS IN THIRD PLACES?What protection needs are expressed today by self-employed workers residing in Third Places? Do they put the need for protection in the same terms? Finally, what place should be given to the people concerned, more rarely present in this kind of event?

We had entrusted to Olivia Martinet, podcasts producer on crafts and entrepreneur of the EAC Artenréel, the task of meeting 8 people, working mainly as freelancers in different Third-Places

of the Grand-Est region: Ophélie (24), Virginie (50), Loïc (35), Julia (26) and Flo (29), Céline (40), Aurore (43) and David (40). From these meetings, footprints were born, in podcast on soundcloud.

Three podcasts were given to the participants reunited on November 26; (it was) up to them to listen to what is said and what is not said, the hollows and shadows, and to ask food for thought around the following questions:

• Does the person address the issue of quality of life at work?

• What seems to be a priority, important in his daily life?

• Does the person spontaneously approach the question of their rights?

• Do elements in the speech suggest that the col-lective, the Third Place generates protection?

Find out moreFind all podcasts on soundcloud https: //soundcloud.com/coope-rerpourentreprendre/setsSOUNDCLOUD

THE COLLECTIVE, ONLY SOCIAL PROTECTION OF WORKERS OF THIRD PLACES?At the end of the sequence, the same observa-tion prevails: the question of rights and social protection are rarely used by interviewees, even when they address the risks to which their self-employed status would expose them.Conversely, the collective is spontaneously and very widely approached by all people, "contact with colleagues" can be a means of protecting oneself against isolation feared in its multiple consequences: loneliness, loss of skills due to lack of emulation, loss of professional opportu-nities, low social recognition of one's activity…

“When you start a business, there is a lot of so-cial pressure at the start, people do not unders-tand why you leave a large group to embark on an entrepreneurial adventure that is risky, to create a company is an irrational act that 'we do it rationally […]. To fight against this social pres-sure, we must not remain isolated, we must try to surround ourselves. Working in a Third Place contributes to this. " Loïc

"When the person approaches the galleys that he would likely encounter as an entrepreneur, he first thinks of the various

administrative procedures (Urssaf, tax declaration, etc.), but she doesn’t ask herself the question of health, sick leave”

A participant.

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TIMES OF SELF-EMPLOYED

DOES THE COLLECTIVE NECESSARILY CREATE A COMMON?This listening exercise gradually led us to ques-tion the balance between individual interest and collective interest in Third Places, but also in activity and employment cooperatives, a ba-lance sometimes in tension. summed up by one participant: "Common yes ... for myself !" "

An important distinction then emerges between collective and common: the collective does not spontaneously produce the common, just like a collection of entrepreneurs who coexists, can-not be enough to form a community.

CollectiveIf we stick to the dictionary definition, the collec-tive designates a limited set (of things or people), but of a certain extent, characterized by common features or considered as such. The people who make up this whole can possibly be linked by a com-mon situation or concerns."

The commonsAccording to the article “An introduction to the notion of commons” published on the commons portal, “Common goods, or simply the commons, are resources, managed collectively by a commu-nity that establishes rules and governance in the aim to preserve and perpetuate this resource.”

This definition is based on the concept developed in 1990 by the American political scientist and eco-nomist Elinor Ostrom3, and represents both speci-fic “goods” as well as the systems of rules framing collective actions. “Goods” should not only be considered for themselves, but also in their rela-tionship with the social groups which participate in their good management.

Find out more→ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons_commons→ journals.openedition.org / economierurale / 581

3 - The governance of the commons: towards a new approach to natural resources

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THIRD PLACES AT THE HEART OF DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES

PLACES TO "MAKE CULTURE"

The notion of Third Place was introduced in 1989 in the United States by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg to "designate places not related to home or work".

The Third Places seem to take their source(s) from the mutations of the work of the transfor-mations of urban and social spaces at work since the 90s, with for faces and memory the first was-teland, squats and other cultural factories.

Third places are emerging in an urbanized society in crisis.

In 2001, Fabrice Lextrait, former administrator of the cultural wasteland “La Belle Mai” publishes a re-port on the intermediate

spaces, very strongly marked by their artistic and cultural dimension: “These “organizations” do not emerge randomly, but they have nothing to do with the big social cohesion policies which systematically fail in this area of integration. In fact, these movements concern “the hollows of the city”, “interstitial spaces” in which different social worlds intersect."

Present at the exchange "Regards croisés", Hugues Bazin is an independent researcher in social sciences and the animator of the Labo-ratory of Social Innovation through Action Re-search. His numerous researches in what he names "third spaces" or "intermediary spaces of existence" lead him to identify the crucial role that culture, which "when installed in a place or when it acts with a place, has the capacity to

favor construction with the inhabitants, the users and a diversity of audiences ”.

“These spaces are places of recomposition in which the user actors develop their common tools and resources. They produce original knowledge there. By creating its own areas of autonomy, cultural work questions norms and insti-tutional arrangements. He

reconstructs new relationships with society. In fact, cultural work institutes a new world of so-cial and imaginary meanings. However, without imagination, no collective. Without imagination, no society. "

These analyzes echo those of Fabien Lextrait, who also observed the capacity of cultural places to participate in reconstruction of poli-tical spaces: “Faced with the depoliticization of our societies, artistic and civic mobilizations combine in a specific way around each expe-rience in order to refuse a certain fatalism and to build a political space where art is questioned in its capacity to reproduce social ties and reno-vate the city. "

They also refer to reflections on cultural law and cultural identity, understood as "the set of cultural references by which a person, alone or in common, defines himself, constitutes himself, communicates and intends to be recognized in his dignity"4.

4 - Friborg Declaration on Cultural Rights, 2007

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INVESTING IN LANDLESS TERRITORIES AND CREATING NEW POPULAR CENTRALITIES

These new practices are facilitated because formerly industrial spaces are then available. In Strasbourg, after the relocation of the milk col-lection cooperative, the premises are gradually being reinvested in student accommodation and cultural halls (exhibitions, concerts, etc.), inclu-ding the DAIRY. The SHADOK, a place dedicated to digital, takes place in a former commercial warehouse, previously used for port equipment.In these neglected or no-hold territories, more than elsewhere can develop "new systems of exchange, self-organization, self-training and

self-manufacturing that help meet their needs". New popular centralities.

From the observation of a working-class neighborhood de Roubaix, le “Collectif-Ro-sa-Bonheur” thus analyzed how the economic and social marginality of individuals had pushed them "to learn other forms of popular organi-zation in the territory, other forms of exchange and economic valuation of available resources, [which] often takes place at market margins. " 5

Also present at the round table “Re-gards croisés” Matei Gheorghiu, Socio-logist and CS coordinator of the French Network of Fablabs has notably illus-trated popular centralities through the post-war cooperative self-construction movement, the Beavers.

"At the end of the Second World War, the question of housing was left in the background in favor of the re-habilitation of the production tool.

Faced with the housing shortage, wor-kers organized themselves into self-help cooperatives construction and take charge in their spare time of buil-ding their homes. And, we can still see it today, the large complexes built by the Beavers are often much more wel-coming than the districts built later by “expert” architects, urban planners, who sometimes obey more industrial and economic logics than conviviality."

Beavers, an example of popular centrality

5 - Collectif Rosa-Bonheur, « Centralité populaire : un concept pour comprendre pratiques et territorialités des classes populaires d’une ville périphérique », SociologieS [En ligne], Dossiers, Penser l'espace en sociologie, mis en ligne le 16 juin 2016

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Minister of Culture from 1997 to 2000 and a figure committed to interme-diary places, Catherine Trautmann intervened at the end of the seminar to emphasize the many so-cial challenges that Third Places could help to meet.

“The Third Places meet a social demand. There is a lot of loneliness and it is fundamental to reconnect distant (or not frequenting) envi-ronments. Third places are not only places of service but also of reception, sharing, answers to problems. Not everything happens in Totem places. We need to create open spaces, spaces of non-judgment, welcoming. "

SPACES FOR INNOVATION IN PUBLIC ACTIONThe sociologist Antoine Burret, member of the TiLiOS collective, described the Third Place at the beginning of 2017 as a “social configuration” which most often materializes in a “physical and / or digital place” in which a “singular process” is activated which will allow "people from different universes", even contradictory, to meet, talk and thus create a "3rd language" allowing them to build (in) "common" projects. In other words by Arnaud Idelon6, the Third places have in com-mon "a reflection on more shared and more ho-rizontal governance, agile organizational models and working methods able to support the muta-tions in the worlds of work, a close relationship with the territories in which they are located. "

Committed from the 2000s on in the wake of digital developments, the acceleration of the Third Place movement led to their gradual ins-titutionalization. According to Arnaud Idelon, “these places tend to be thought of as new pu-blic spaces capable of bringing together diffe-rent audiences, of taking advantage of the mix (of practices, actors and audiences) to generate territorial added value and social ties. They thus participate in a recasting of the game of the ins-tances by being done - on various scales and by summoning various devices - potential echo chamber for civil society, spaces for engage-ment, participation and circulation of knowledge and know-how. "

6 - Arnaud Idelon, “Third places, from initiative to order”, 2019

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KALEIDOSCOOP PROJETThis future cross-border Third Place located on the former COOP site at the Port du Rhin in Stras-bourg, questions these issues: "Coming from the cooperative, we arrive at the Third Place with the intention of making the city differently, "explains Stéphane Bossuet, co-sponsor of the project.

While the project is still to come, different ac-tions have been carried out outside the walls since 2019: a presence every Tuesday to make the link with the neighborhood and its inhabi-tants, events to raise awareness of the SSE, the development of youth service cooperatives with young people and ephemeral cooperatives with unemployed audiences.

Spaces accessible to allTo accommodate a variety of audiences and which would give everyone the means to contribute to the common

Spaces for learningAnd relearn forgotten gestures, transmit knowledge and learn to transmit it, recognize the right and legitimacy to carry, alongside academic knowledge, pragmatic knowledge no less essential.

Generous spacesWhere volunteer work, patronage, time exchange, loan of places, pooling of tools ... would be practiced

Spaces to learn to cooperateBecause cooperation is not innate and is built by doing collectively. It all takes time, the time for people to learn to work together, to trust each other.

Experimental spacesWhich would preserve a part of the unforeseen essential to make possible the crossroads of practices, crossroads of audiences and crossover of knowledge.

The intervention of Catherine Trautmann gave rise to fi nal and fruitful exchanges on what could be the Third Places of general interest, which we propose to summarize as follows:

THIRD PLACES AT THE HEART OF DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES

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PROPOSALS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTIONS TO STRENGTHEN THE LOGIC OF THE COMMONSDISTINGUISHING THIRD PLACES THAT ARE PRIVATE AND THOSE THAT ARE COMMONOn October 8, 2019, "Main d'oeuvre", an em-blematic association of the Intermediate Third Place, was closed by decision of the Municipality of Saint-Ouen.

The national coordination of intermediary places then detected "in the closing of a pioneering third place, while public action calls for the de-velopment of third places everywhere in France, a shift from the general interest to the private interest"7, and asked that public actors be dis-tinguished "initiatives from civil society to which they support", initiatives that are private.

In Strasbourg, the distinction of Third Places relating to the common of those relating to the private interest is posed. The need to secure

the mission of general interest of the former, while guaranteeing a fair allocation of public funds and a better evaluation of public action, is then consensus and the room seems to quickly agree on the following analysis: concerning third places, the question is not so much to agree on the fact that a standard is relevant, but to know when it will come into being, and by whom. New questions then emerge. How to distingui-sh them, on what criteria and which evaluation systems?

We have also warned of the risk that the most immediately lucrative activities will be reco-vered by for-profit initiatives, thus leaving the burden of developing actions of general interest to the voluntary sector.

TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY GUARANTEE SYSTEM FOR THIRD PLACES?Can participatory guarantee systems constitute a relevant framework for Third Places? Invited on November 26, Viviane Hamon, activist in Par-ticipatory Guarantee Systems, presented the principles, but also the limits. The principle of the Participatory Guarantee System originated in the organic farming movement in the 1960s in order to strengthen citizen participation in the existing guarantee processes. The Nature and Progress Label is the first alternative label to appear in France in 1964.Adopted in 2004, the participatory guarantee system (SPG) is today defined as a certification and recognition system implemented by peers. The process is based on broad, transparent and horizontal participation. Considered by Viviane Hamon as a "common intellectual who

aims for self-assessment.", the SPG is based on a co-constructed assessment benchmark. The evaluation is carried out by peers, under conditions of transparency. Nature et Progrès stakeholders (farmers, customers, distributors) check whether the farmer is in compliance with the standard.There is no doubt, however, that setting up an SPG is a long and often painful process, which necessarily involves solid engineering, espe-cially legal, which may be lacking in emerging structures. The critical size, at which the SPG no longer functions, is also invoked by Viviane Hamon, which would tend to favor local scales of assessment, closer to the territory and better able to grasp its specificities.

7 - On assassine Mains d'Oeuvres ! [call for support], CNLII

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THE LABEL COOPERER POUR ENTREPRENDRE: BACK ON 5 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTATION

TOWARDS AN SPG NETWORK?Viviane Hamon is involved in the participatory gua-rantee system with the En-virobat-BDM association, which manages the "Sus-tainable Mediterranean Buildings" label and is to-day seeking to develop an alliance of organizations

beyond the sole field of sustainable building. "The objective is to legally secure the SPG so that it can be recognized by national and in-ternational institutions as an alternative to the private, third-party certification processes that are now dominant. In addition to organic farming today engaged in a similar approach, the fields concerned could be solidarity finance, health and social establishments, SSE companies etc.

Since 2015, Cooperer pour Entreprendre has been leading and the CPE Label, a mutual improvement process common to its member PPAs. Half of the EACs are now certified for a period of three years. Charlotte Dudignac, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of CPE, presents it to us in three questions.

Why did you set up the CPE Label?

The CPE Label is directly linked to the 2014 ESS law which recognizes EACs. This law contri-buted to raising awareness of the PPA model among administrations, communities but also by a wider ecosystem interested in the status of salaried entrepreneur, such as entrepreneurial collectives, Third Places, structures for integra-tion through economic activity. However, it was not accompanied by a very restrictive definition of what is an EAC. The dimension of vocation of general interest and unconditional recep-tion of all the public, dear to the EAC of CPE, is thus absent. It was also not accompanied by a control-sanction of structures claiming to be EAC and using the status of salaried entrepre-neur. Faced with the real risk of deviating from the EAC model by employing structures which would replace their employees by salaried en-trepreneurs, the member EACs of CPE decided to create their own evaluation process, the Label Cooperer pour Entreprendre.

How can the CPE Label be considered a partici-patory guarantee system?

This label is a voluntary approach by EAC who recognize themselves in advance in a charter of principles and who have decided together to compel themselves to collectively assess the implementation of these principles. All of the tools have been designed for and by EACs: a repository of 120 criteria scans the entire pro-fession, the auditors come from EACs and entre-preneurs can participate in audits. It’s finally a learning process. The benchmark has already undergone several changes to remain relevant to the environment, in particular regulatory, and has already been improved following the feed-back from the audited EACs.

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A common repository for Third Places

In 2016-2017, a working group from Free and Open Source Third Places wondered how to talk about Third Places, what makes Third Places and how to identify them: "How to welcome people who are curious? How do we present the Third Places to people who come by chance? Is this a set of properties that TLs all have to identify themselves? Do we call ourselves Third Place, are we recognized by our Third Place peers? "

Work was initiated on the occasion of the Biennial at the Cité du Design in Saint-Etienne, in November 2017. Since then, 5 criteria constituting a collective certifi cation mark have been defi ned and regularly deepened: free and open source ( freedom / quality), trust and benevolence (time / duration), free appropriation (capacity and skills, emancipation in action (process and resources), and resilience and modularity (scope of my action).

Find the process underway on the La Myne pad : https://pad.lamyne.org/cget-tilios-rfflabs-agir-communs

What are the diffi culties encountered?

Like any participative guarantee system, the label is not a simple process to set up, all the more so for structures operating in a reduced team already in high demand. Logically enough, the audit can pass after the other fi les. Tensions between a necessary flexibility and the need to respect collective rules are therefore inevitable, all the more so when the system is participative, therefore more empathetic.

Another diffi culty: some territories, such as the Normandy region for example, already fully rely on the Label to guide their policies, but this re-cognition is not generalized and largely depends on the appropriation of the Label by the EACs themselves.

All this knowledge acquired, including that of our diffi culties, enlightens us in a new phase of the Label, where we will strengthen the dimen-sion of advice and training in EAC.

Examples of organizations working for public innovation

The Coop des Communs brings together activists from the world of the commons, researchers, activists and entrepreneurs of the social and solidarity economy as well as public actors with the aim of contributing to the construction of an ecosystem favorable to the emergence of commons.

The social innovation hub brings together more than 50 social innovation players. Associations, profes-sional networks, guides, funders, observers, researchers and public actors are members in order to make the capitalization work on social innovation more accessible and to accelerate networking in the regions.

The French Fablab Network is the federated association for most Fablabs on French territory. Under the motto "learning to do together (to change the world)", this association seeks to pool the tools, practices and skills from digital manufacturing workshops, disseminate good practices, promote citizen use of these spaces and maintain permanent watch over the development of the ecosystem through its scien-tific council.

GIVING OURSELVES THE MEANS TO DO NATIONAL PUBLIC ACTIONGiving ourselves the means to do national public actionAnother way of claiming general interest was raised on November 26 by Emmanuel Dupont, then head of the Research and Innovation Strategy Pole at CGET, become the ANCT. For the latter, "innovation is a dynamic of overflow of administrations by civil society. Civil society ac-tors could claim the right to take charge of forms of public action ", thereby helping to perpetuate and institute new relationships and modes of joint regulation with administrations.

How? According to Emma-nuel Dupont, by first and foremost setting up innova-tive organizations, capable of intervening at the natio-nal level and “making re-ference”: “National public

action goes beyond the question of networking. It must enable actors and actresses to acquire a (considered) capacity for collective action ", which cannot alone be achieved "A current mul-titude of undersized networks with a president, a delegate, two project managers when all is right, each of these networks playing their own survival, in permanent search for subsidy… ”

Conversely, the gathering and convergence of structures would make it possible to perpetuate initiatives present in the territories, which today find it difficult to "climb a step", and "to transfer expertise from territory to territory".

“Local actors must be aware that they also have a national responsibility and that they must now organize themselves accordingly. " Emmanuel Dupont

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Created in 1999 to bring together EACs, Coo-perer pour Entreprendre will change status on May 13, 2020, to become a cooperative society of collective interest. Now positioned on collec-tive entrepreneurship, it will welcome a wider membership and offer demanding shared ser-vices: digital management services, training, advice, innovation, evaluation.

Why does CPE decide today to transform itself?

As a preamble, I think it is important to keep in mind that no transformation falls overnight like a cleaver, but very often results from a more or less long process, more or less shared. The unprecedented health crisis we are experien-cing at the time of this publication (March 2020) is as much the result of public policies long criti-cized as the powerful revealer of our collective flaws.

Coming back to Cooperer pour Entreprendre, we started our transformation in 2017, based on an observation shared with our members. The EAC model that we had created then demonstrated its social utility, but ran up against a glass ceiling that we had to overcome, by strengthening our capacity to influence in public space. This will be the role of the future EAC federation which will emerge within the Scop movement in the fall of 2020.

The idea that "we can't do it alone" was already in the DNA of the EACs and the network: EACs are cooperative organizations based on strong democratic principles, and the majority of them are united in network to be stronger together. In recent years, the complexity of our environment has accelerated.

For example, the EACs and other actors engaged in the general interest are invited to new rela-tionships with the public authorities, based each day more on the funding of specific projects, re-duced visibility and the logic of calls for project in complex consortium, bringing together diffe-rent actors on the territories.

Faced with all this, the temptation to turn inward seems deadly to us. On the contrary, we believe that the resilience of an organization, like that of an individual, can only come about by stren-gthening, through the collective, solidarity and the general interest. In our territories, we will more than ever need to create united ecosys-tems, in which new relationships with living beings, with others and with ourselves will be invented. We will need short food and energy circuits, but also agile organizations capable of supporting changes in employment, structuring self-employment, multi-activity, and building new rights.

Today we want to participate fully in this demo-cratic renewal and, to do this, let us choose to extend our action beyond ourselves, towards collective entrepreneurship. This cooperative society of collective-interest will meet the needs of EACs, but also spaces bringing together free-lancers, freelance collectives, support struc-tures for entrepreneurship, integration compa-nies, etc.

Concretely, what will this future cooperative offer?

This structure, which positions itself as a coope-rative “Do tank”, will imagine and extend inno-vative solutions tested by our members on the territories.

COOPERER POUR ENTREPRENDRE NETWORK BECOMES A COOPERATIVE “DO TANK”

We will ensure the continuity of the services already offered and acclaimed by the EAC, such as digital services, training, the Label, etc. Some services are already adapted to other audiences. This is the case of enDI, our platform for ma-naging the activity of collective entrepreneurs and their companions. Our national impact study program plans in 2021 to extend to EACs and Third Places. The Flashcoop experiment, a short-lived ephemeral cooperative for people far from employment or entrepreneurship, will be extended in 2020.

To do this, we will rely on the network of experts present in the organizations we bring together.

On May 13th, CPE will become a cooperative society of collective interest, with a reinvented and enlarged membership to third places and work spaces, actors of integration, support and training, communities, research laboratories ... In the fall, a second General Assembly will wel-come the first new members and we will change our name. Above all, to make common, we will need structuring projects, conviviality, kindness and proximity. We will need to go fast and take our time!

PROPOSALS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTIONS TO STRENGTHEN THE LOGIC OF THE COMMONS

PRESERVE AND DEVELOP THIRD PLACES BASED ON THE LOGIC OF THE COMMONS.

MARCH 2020

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