Dear Ramics members

We wish you a joyful, healthy and peaceful 2023. 

It is our great pleasure to announce the venue for the next Congress. The 7th RAMICS Congress will be held in Rome in 2024. Exact topic and dates will be communicated in due time, when we circulate a Call for Papers. 

In the meantime, we thank the members who sent us proposals to host the congress and especially acknowledge the organisers of the next Congress in the eternal city of Rome. Thank you, Luca Giachi, Chiara Caravallo, Fabrizio Tuzi and Francesca Proia at the CNR in Italy.  

Ramics Management Commitee

Dear members

Thank you for joining us in the association and in our great congress in Sofia.

We will send you a lengthier report in the next newsletter in the beginning of 2023. However, at this point we wanted to share a few highlights and one of them is that we are going to resume the circulation of newsletters twice a year. You can find the old ones here.

We wanted to quickly update you on the composition of the 4th Ramics management Committee, its activities and resources. We held our first meeting immediately after the general Assembly in Sofia on October 29th, 2022. By this message we would also like to inform you on who to address for your various interests.

• Georgina Gómez (Erasmus remains as President of the MC
• Eduardo Diniz becomes Co-president
• Jérôme Blanc continues as Treasurer
• Ester Barinaga continues as Secretary
• August Corrons continues as Secretary and Co-Editor of the IJCCR
• Jens Martignoni becomes Chief Editor of the IJCCR journal
• Masayuki Yoshida takes responsibility for communication. This includes the Newsletter and Announcements
• Ricardo Orzi and Rossitsa Toncheva continue as members of the Management Committee

Rolf Schroeder continues to curate the CC-Lit but he has retired from the Ramics Management Committee. Yannick Lung was responsible for communications and has retired from the Management Committee. We thank both of them for their contribution and hope they continue to support the association as members and participating in conferences.

More news will follow!

Dear RAMICS members, 

Dear IJCCR readers,

Thank you so much for taking part in our first online roundtable! It was a great success with more than 50 participants from all over the world. Your pro-active involvement raised a lot of fruitful discussions!

You can find the the recorded video (YouTube, TubEdu), the text file of the chat (click here), and the speakers’ presentations (click here).

See you at the next RAMICS event!

At a time of uncertainty about the future and increased precarity in the present, we at RAMICS believe that complementary and community currencies have become and even more relevant tool to build community resilience and hopefully help us transition towards a more sustainable future. So, while the pandemic has forced the bi-annual RAMICS conference to be postponed, we see the need to keep the conversation alive. For this reason, we are organizing an online Round-table on March 5, 2021.

The round-table will focus on the question: What ideas, technologies and practices are conducive to the development and institutionalization of complementary currencies?
Presenters will be Chikako Nakayama, Manabu Kuwata, Fabienne Pinos, Rolf Schroeder and Marcus Petz.
They will help us advance the conversation on ideas, technologies and practices advancing efforts to implement complementary currencies.

Mark the date in your calendar, stay tuned, and join the conversation on

March 5, 2021

• 17.00-19.00 Japan time, or

• 09.00-11.00 Central European time.

Click on the link to join the round-table https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/63626993784.

Dear RAMICS members,

We are glad to announce that our last RAMICS Conference, which took place in Japan (Hida-Takayama) in 2019 (RAMICS 2019), won the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) Award for Contribution to the Attraction and Hosting of International Conferences in the category of hosting international conferences (small-to-medium size).

RAMICS 2019 is one of the eight winners (four for the large size events and four small-to-medium ones) in the category of international conferences in 2020. It seems that the initiative to issue community currency in Takayama during the conference was highly evaluated. This initiative was based on the community currency markets at previous conferences in Brazil and Spain.

This award recognises not only RAMICS 2019, but also the way RAMICS conferences have been organised in the past. The people of Sarubobo coin and Enepo are also very happy about this award.

The press release can be found here in Japanese only.

Thank you for reading and for your support,

Best wishes

Here is a reminder on the call for papers for the 5th RAMICS Congress, to be held in Japan, Sept. 11-15th.

The deadline has been postponed to May, 14th.

Proposals dealing with community and complementary currencies, under digital forms or not, and with monetary innovation, are welcome.

Don’t hesitate to visit the website of the congress and of RAMICS association.

The Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems (RAMICS), in partnership with the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) and the Bibliography Databank of Community Currency Research (CC-literature), announces the launch of the first edition of the RAMICS’ Best Paper Award on monetary innovation and complementary currency systems.

This initiative aims to promote research that improves the present understanding of the state, the development and the potentialities of monetary innovation, complementary currency systems and any case of money-based social exchange systems as well. It takes place in the framework of RAMICS biennial congresses. In addition, it seeks to facilitate and strengthen the relationships between those who act in the field of complementary currency research and the movements of activists on the subject, articulating research and practice, rigorous academic reflection and promotion of social change.

Consequently, RAMICS’ Fifth International Congress on Monetary Innovation and Complementary Currency Systems, to be held in Japan – Hida-Takayama, on Sept. 11-15^th, 2019, will introduce the first edition of this Best Paper Award, for a paper written in English, considering criteria of originality, relevance, and academic quality.

 Selection process

The selection will take place considering the papers accepted by the international scientific committee of the Congress, and presented during the Congress.

The winner of the award will be announced during the Congress in attendance of the author or at least one author if the paper is co-authored.

The jury may renounce to grant the award if it considers that the competing papers do not meet the expected quality and relevance requirements.

Contest rules

Research norms of an academic paper

Please remember that an academic paper is not a social commentary, an opinion or a “blog”. An academic paper begins with a thesis – the writer of the academic paper aims to persuade readers of an idea or solution to a problem, based on empirical qualitative or quantitative evidence or on theoretical and conceptual analysis. A paper should be structured on a research question that is presented and explained in the introductory section, with reference to the existing literature.

Academic writing should present the reader with an informed argument. The research process is not simply collecting data, evidence, or “facts,” then copy-and-pasting” this preexisting information into a paper. Instead, the research process is about the investigation — asking questions and developing answers through serious critical thinking and thoughtful reflection.

Conditions to be part of the contest

– Articles should be original unpublished material, and not submitted for publication elsewhere.

– Essays will be accepted written English

– Provisional versions or works that have obtained a local, national or international prize will not be accepted.

– The articles must be submitted to RAMICS Congress for presentation, then accepted and presented.

– The applying papers must follow the presentation guidelines that will be circulated in the call for papers of the Congress.

Topics of the papers

– The articles should be based on the thematic areas proposed in the call for papers and guidelines of the RAMICS 5th Congress.

– The work may consist of an analysis of cases and/or theoretical reflections related to the suggested topics.

– Presentations of an individual or collective authorship with no more than three authors will be accepted. In the case of collective essays, the award will be the only one per work.

 The award

The awarded paper will receive an amount of 300 euros. The amount is not per author but per paper, and in the case of multiple authorship, the authors should share this amount.

The awarded paper will be published in the issue of the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) that corresponds with the proceedings of the Congress. It will be indexed consequently in the Bibliography of Community Currency Research (CC-literature).

The winners are committed to delivering the final essays adapted to the editorial standards of RAMICS/IJCCR.

Dear colleagues,

Here is a reminder on the call for papers for the 5th RAMICS Congress, to be held in Japan, Sept. 11-15th.

The deadline has been postponed to April, 30th.

Proposals dealing with community and complementary currencies, under digital forms or not, and with monetary innovation, are welcome.

Don’t hesitate to visit the website of the congress and of RAMICS association.

Regards,

Jérôme Blanc

President of RAMICS

5th Biennial RAMICS International Congress in Japan

“Going Digital? New Possibilities of Digital-Community Currency Systems”

11th-15th September 2019, Hida-Takayama, Japan

Important Dates

Submitting abstracts by March 31st, 2019 April 30th, 2019 (Japan Standard Time) *The deadline extended.

Notification of acceptance by April 30th, 2019 May 31st, 2019 (Japan Standard Time)

Submitting full papers by July 12th, 2019 (Japan Standard Time)

*Abstracts and full papers must be submitted through the online submission system, EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramics2019hidatakaya). You have to make an EasyChair account and log in.

Registration

{ Users from China – Registration }

Call for Papers

• Academic Conference
• Practioner Conference

Contact

ramics2019takayama@googlegroups.com

Senshu University Digital-Community Currency Consortium Laboratory

(Laboratory 1410, Building 1, 2-1-1 Higashi-Mita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8580, Japan.)

Organizing Committee

• Pr. Makoto Nishibe (General Chair)
• Pr. Masayuki Yoshida (Co-General Chair)
• Masahiko Yamazaki (Co-General Chair)
• Shigeto Kobayashi (Secretary-General)
• Kazushige Yamakoshi
• Ken-ichi Kurita
• Masaaki Ikeda
• Yoshihisa Miyazaki
• Ikuma Fujiwara
• Pr. Masaaki Yoshida
• Pr. Takashi Hashimoto
• Hidetoshi Sawa
• Pr. Masahiro Mikami

Location

The Takayama Cultural Hall in Takayama.

1-188-1 Showa-machi, Takayama, Gifu, 506-0053 Japan