Author: Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

The Association originates from the discussions held in the first two international conferences on Complementary Currency Systems, in Lyon in 2011 and in The Hague in 2013, and was founded in Salvador da Bahia, in 2015 The mission of the Association is to promote academic research on diverse monetary and social exchange systems. The Association will particularly focus on innovative schemes that contribute to economic diversity, social cohesion, democratic participation and environmental sustainability, like complementary and community currencies.

[ RAMICS Online Roundtable ] Follow-up

Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

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!

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[Conference] Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit

Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

Friday, 5 March 2021 – 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm GMT. Please register at the Meetup event by clicking here.

Tomaž Fleischman will present his paper, ‘Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit: An Effective Monetary Innovation for SMEs in Times of Crisis’, followed by questions and a general discussion.

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RAMICS Online Roundtable on March 5, 2021

Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

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.

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RAMICS Conference 2019 awarded by JNTO

Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems

Dear IJCCR readers,

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).Read More »