What can Europe learn from Mexico' s social and solidarity-based economy?[¿Qué tiene que aprender Europa de la economía social y solidaria de México?]

This article is based on a presentation delivered at the IV Congress of the Economy of Francis and Clare in Latin America and the Caribbean, held at the Ibero-American University, Mexico City, on October 24–25, 2024. Its purpose is to answer the question: What can Europe learn from Mexico's Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)? To this end, three ideas are presented. First, the (Western) European SSE has much to learn from the Mexican one in terms of territorial rootedness and the self-organizing ca-pacity of civil society. Second, it must also reflect on the difficulties faced in Mexico, particularly regarding economic challenges, governance issues in SSE experiences, and forms of struggle in complex and conflictive territorial contexts. Finally, both the European and Mexican SSE have much to learn from each other. This circulation of models is already underway and does not necessarily occur from center to center but rather from periphery to periphery.