The massive wealth and job destruction caused by the 2008 financial crisis has brought back the focus onto the real economy, job creation and territorial develo...
It’s a reality. In Europe, 1.5 million workers co-own their enterprises. They are called worker cooperatives, social cooperatives or participative ente...
In the framework of the International Year of Cooperatives and of the Congress of the French Worker Cooperatives (Scop), the main international event for wor...
On the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives, Laszlo Andor, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, published an...
Les Scop Poitou-Charentes has organised the first international summer school for young cooperative entrepreneurs in France: “Campus Coopérative...
The conference ‘The Case for Gateway Cooperatives in Montenegro and the Balkans’ held in Podgorica on 3rd July, in which CECOP participated, took...
Today, 7th July, cooperative enterprises celebrate the 18th International Day of Cooperatives, proclaimed by the United Nations and the 90th International Co...
Benoît Hamon, the French minister for social and solidarity economy, declared that he intended to design a law on the right of preference of workers wh...
CECOP-CICOPA Europe had the premiere of its new documentary “Together - How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis" due to be released in Sept...
CECOP – CICOPA Europe will present the film documentary film “Together - How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis” on 26th June at th...
CICOPA is pleased to welcome the National Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (CNCT), from Argentina, as a new member. CNCT was established in 2009 in Bueno...
CECOP-CICOPA Europe has a new associate member: Co-operative Support Services Limited (CSS), from Ireland. CSS was established in 2006 and offers cooperative...
On 24th April, CECOP organised a conference on social cooperatives and the Social Business Initiative (SBI) at the European Economic and Social Committee. Th...
In an opinion adopted on 12th April called “Cooperatives and Restructuring”, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) highlighted how co...
The cooperative Eroski has integrated more 4,142 new employees in several Spanish regions as new cooperative members, within a business procedure approved re...
Laszlo Andor, the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, opened the first European Fair of Social Enterprises and Cooperatives f...
In times of crisis, not all business models work in the same way. Some enterprises face new challenges and base their hopes on strong values and principles....
The Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Laszlo Andor will participate in the First European Fair of Social Enterprises & Cooperati...
Imagine a museum whose most precious possession is not a painting by Van Gogh or an art installation by Ai Weiwei but a 100-year-old packed lunch wrapped in...
