The Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) is an international association of local governments and civil society actors dedicated to the development of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) Emerging from a first conference that took place in 2013 in Seoul and formally constituted as an international association during a second forum in Seoul in 2014  the GSEF aims to enable collaboration between local governments and the social and solidarity economy in order to support the creation of quality jobs  equitable growth  the progress of participatory democracy and sustainable development