Announcement

New Editor

The International Journal of Community Currency Research welcomes its new Editor, Dr. Jens Martignoni.

Jens Martignoni was born 1963, trained as an engineer at the Technikum Winterthur, Switzerland, has an MBA in Nonprofit-Management from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland and a PhD in Cooperative Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is a lecturer and senior researcher at ZHAW the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland. He has been working for many years on the development of alternative economic forms and better organizational models for currencies and new money systems. He is the author of the book “Das Geld neu erfinden” (reinventing money) and investigated and invented on complementary and community currencies since 1992.

He has published in the IJCCR: “A new approach to a typology of complementary currencies” and other articles.

Final call for papers – 6th RAMICS Congress, Sofia, October 2022

Submissions to the 6th RAMICS conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 2022 are still possible. 

We were  made aware of some misunderstandings. In consequence the deadline for abstracts has now been extended until July 4th, 8am.

We would like to clarify the following:

  • The congress will be hybrid: participation is possible both in person AND online (via Zoom), the latter at a reduced fee (from 50€).   
  • The congress is open for academia, practitioners and policymakers, all invited to share their latest insights. 
  • For researchers, presentations of their findings are possible for both published and unpublished articles. 
  • For practitioners reporting on their ongoing projects, the abstracts submitted under Theme 5 (“Review and Renew”) will not be judged by scientific criteria and will be accepted until Sept 15th. 
  • You do not need to become a member of RAMICS to participate in the congress.
  • Presenters will be invited to submit new versions of their work to the research journal associations with RAMICS: The International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). But publishing in that journal is neither required nor guaranteed for papers presented at the congress.

The full call for papers, general information about the Congress and updates can be found on the congress website, on Facebook, or get in touch at ramics@unwe.bg.

[ RAMICS Online Roundtable ] Follow-up

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

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

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

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 »