1st-2nd October 2025
Lyon, France
Hosted by Partners for a New Economy, New Economies: Hope in a time of collapse is a global gathering bringing together 250 people committed to fundamentally transforming our economic system.
Now in its fourth year, P4NE’s gathering builds connection for strategic action across geographies, disciplines and sectors. It provides the opportunity to explore and exchange the new economic ideas, practices and strategies that will equip us to support one another, build power and respond with the urgency required as we navigate these complex and challenging times.
Why are we gathering?
This year, the need for community, connection and collective action feels stronger than ever. We are facing collapse in many forms — the collapse of natural systems that sustain life, the crumbling of institutions that have propped up our economic model, and the breakdown of long-standing geopolitical norms.
This upheaval creates profound uncertainty. At the same time, it creates new opportunities to break through a mainstream political and economic consensus that has failed to grapple with the most urgent challenges of our time. As a collective, we must work together to recognise the ways in which collapse is an invitation not to continue making tweaks at the margins, but to build new alliances and real alternatives to a broken status quo.
This gathering is a chance to come together and ask: what does this time of deep uncertainty and breakdown mean for our goal of transforming economic systems? Where do we find active hope and openings that can move us toward a new economic paradigm, in which the economy works in service of people and the rest of nature?
“What our hope must do, is go to work.
Our hope has to be active, not merely by existing, but by fueling our diverse and unique approaches and dedication to change.”
Joycelyn Longdon
What can we expect?
You’ll be guided through the gathering by this year’s host Adrienne Buller, author of The Value of a Whale and founder and director of the Break-Down.
The programme features a keynote from leading scholar and author Joycelyn Longdon. Her debut book Natural Connection invites readers to embrace new roles in the fight for sustainability beyond activist and observer, guiding us back to our roots and exploring six key pillars through which hope and radical change might flourish.
The programme will offer choice to participants throughout the day - from speaker panels to smaller group discussions on key new economic themes, workshops and time to deepen or make new connections. There’s also the opportunity to cruise the river Saône and find fellow travellers along the way.
The full event programme will be published in the summer.
“In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance and remaking is underway.”
Adrienne Buller & Geoff Mann