Sofia Adam is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy, Democritus university of Thrace specializing in Social Policy and Local Development. Additionally, she is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Postgraduate Program in Social and Solidarity Economy at the Hellenic Open University. She has served as a Special Advisor in SSE at the Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Solidarity. She worked as Program Coordinator of SSE at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Thessaloniki office. She is a researcher in the areas of the third sector, Social & Solidarity Economy (SSE), and social policy. She holds a PhD from the Department of Social Administration at Democritus University of Thrace, an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS (University of London), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia. She has published studies in the series Observatory for the Social and Economic Developments of the Institute of Labour of the General Confederation of Greek Labour (INE-GSEE), she has published a practical guide on the cooperative economy as an independent researcher, and contributed with articles in collective volumes. In parallel, she has organized and/or presented at numerous adult education seminars on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). Sofia Adam is involved in various educational and collaborative initiatives, including Member of the educational platform kalomathe.gr, and as affiliate member at the P2P Lab. Her research explores how public policies foster local development and social policy through synergies between the public sector and Social Solidarity Economy and Commons practices from a transformative perspective. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the research project titled: The Potential of Social and Solidarity Economy in Eldercare (ELDERWISE).
