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#COOPTALES

In #COOPTALES we present the stories of our cooperatives from the ground, where we would show you through our writing who they are and what they represent. How the cooperatives from our network answer to people's needs, contributing to the economic and social development of the community in which they operate.

Giving voice to those women and men that every day put in practice what we defend and advocate for in CECOP, #COOPTALES shows a different way of doing economy where democratic and social values are drivers of a common project.

07 Mar 2024

Birmingham Bike Foundry (UK)

TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE

Meet the Birmingham Bike Foundry that wants to bring bike production back to Birmingham in a socially conscious way.

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23 Nov 2023

INDUSTRIA PLASTICA TOSCANA (Italy)

MANUFACTURING

Meet IPT, the worker cooperative leader in the ecological packaging industry in Italy!

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30 Oct 2023

PRO NOBIS (Portugal)

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION

We had a chance to sit down with Michelle Chan, one of the founders of Pro Nobis, a cooperative providing sustainable solutions for freelancers in the art sector.

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24 May 2023

GRUPO SSI (Spain)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

Meet the Grupo SSI, a group of cooperatives that integrate social initiative companies.

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21 Mar 2023

VÄRKKÄYS (Finland)

ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT SERVICE

Meet Värkkäys, the worker cooperative where they are job matchmakers!

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13 Dec 2022

VISTA COOP (Malta)

EDUCATION

Meet Vista coop, the cooperative transforming childcare in Malta!

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10 Nov 2022

ELAP (Czechia) 

MANUFACTURING

Meet ELAP, the production cooperative that develops and produces machine control systems, semi-automatic & automatic lines, and technological units. 

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29 Sep 2022

PROGETTO QUID (Italy)

MANUFACTURING

Meet Progetto Quid, the social cooperative that gives new life to people and textiles.

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01 Sep 2022

SPAZIO APERTO SERVIZI (Italy)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

Meet Spazio Aperto Servizi, the social cooperative involving its community to deliver quality care to its recipients and revolutionizing the region of Milan.

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20 Jul 2022

TITI SERVICES (France)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

Meet Titi Services, the worker cooperative employing innovative managerial decisions while offering quality working conditions.

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15 Jun 2022

FILIPPO CORRIDONI (Italy)

TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE

Meet Filippo Corridoni, a cooperative from the sea with a long-standing heritage. 

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11 May 2022

SWINGA (Sweden)

OTHER SERVICE

Meet the coop that brings “Sharing is caring” to a whole new level!

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28 Mar 2022

COOPTECH HUB (Poland)

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

We had a chance to sit down with Jan Zygmuntowski, and discuss PLZ Coop, CoopTech Hub, and the next era for cooperation in Poland.

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01 Dec 2021

CERAMICHE NOI (Italy)

MANUFACTURING

Discover Ceramiche Noi, a worker cooperative that has combined response to community needs and international entrepreneurship like no other.

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25 Nov 2021

DIOMCOOP (Spain)

OTHER SERVICE

Meet Diomcoop, the cooperative that is addressing the basic needs related to the employment, training, regularisation, and rights of migrants, through a coop.

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15 Nov 2021

NAZARETH (Italy)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

Meet Nazareth, a social coop assisting minors and families, as well as job placement for disadvantaged people.

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08 Sep 2021

COLLECTIVE TOOLS (Sweden)

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

Meet Collective Tools, a platform cooperative that runs cloud services.

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28 Jul 2021

SOGLASNIK (Slovenia)

PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

Meet Soglasnik, the Slovenian language services cooperative, where “fair pay for fair work” is a way of being.

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15 Jun 2021

LOGIK & CO (Denmark)

CONSTRUCTION

Meet Logik & Co, the Danish building worker cooperative with a strong focus on social responsibility and good craftsmanship.

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20 Apr 2021

DIGIDEM LAB (Sweden)

PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

Meet Digidem Lab, the Swedish worker coop in tech making digital participation inclusive for all.

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15 Mar 2021

FAIR & BIO ROASTERY (Czech Republic)

MANUFACTURING

Meet Fair & Bio Roasting Plant, a clear example of how one cooperative can make a whole community thrive.

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15 Feb 2021

LES 3 COLONNES (France)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

Get to know the social cooperative that is re-defining home care and pension, for more dignified elder years.

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10 Dec 2020

INFACT (UK)

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

Meet InFact, a London-based, design and development worker cooperative. 

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14 Oct 2020

AUSOLAN (Spain)

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICE

The Grupo Ausolan is a story of female empowerment and entrepreneurship success.

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21 Sep 2020

MALTA BUS COOP (Malta)

TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE

Meet Malta Bus Coop, the coop that is bringing history back to life. A coop success story.

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20 Apr 2020

COVID19: How cooperatives in industry and services are responding to the crisis

OTHER SERVICE

While the world is facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis, cooperatives in industry and services are reorganizing themselves, finding strength in the people and communities they serve.

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16 Apr 2020

CERCINA (Portugal)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

The cooperative for Education, Rehabilitation, Empowerment and Inclusion, CERCINA, was created in 1981 through collaboration between parents, therapists and teachers who wanted to provide educational and occupational support to young people with disabilities in the community of Nazaré, a region in...

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18 Mar 2020

ERSE (Italy)

PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

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18 Mar 2020

LE RELAIS (France)

OTHER SERVICE

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12 Mar 2020

FAJNA SZTUKA (Poland)

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION

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13 Dec 2019

CMB (Italy)

CONSTRUCTION

The Emilia-Romagna region, in Italy, is a land of history and traditions, as much as for its cuisine as for its cooperatives. A process that began in the second half of the nineteenth century and that depict today the Region as the homeland of Italian cooperation, where 28.3% of the national coopera...

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06 Nov 2019

CHERNOMORKA COOPERATIVE (Bulgaria)

MANUFACTURING

In 1950, seven people, victims of the Second World War, joined together to create the worker cooperative Chernomorka with the aim to provide jobs for disable people in the town and region of Burgas, in the east of Bulgaria near the black sea. In order to start the cooperative, each member contribute...

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11 Sep 2019

TOUTENVÉLO (France)

TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE

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31 Jul 2019

AKTYWIZACJA COOPERATIVE (Poland)

ELECTRICITY, GAS, STEAM, AND AIR CONDITIONING SUPPLY

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14 Jul 2019

LILITH COOPERATIVE (Finland)

ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION

In Finland, if you are a freelancer and you are looking for a job that is collaborative and fair, you can join the Lilith Cooperative. To become a member of Lilith means to be part of a network of more than 400 cooperators coming from all over Finland and widely specialized in different creative fie...

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28 Jun 2019

MUNCĂ ȘI ARTĂ, BUCAREST (Romania)

MANUFACTURING

Founded in 1952 in Bucharest, the cooperative Muncă și Artă, literally “work and art”, is well known for its long tradition in the sector of textile manufacturing of sport items and uniforms. In the 1990s, Muncă și Artă was the only supplier of sport equipment in Romania, for both natio...

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29 May 2019

INSTITUTO DE LECTURA FÁCIL (Spain)

EDUCATION

Meet the institute in Spain breaking cognitive barriers.

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06 May 2019

SOLEA (Czech Republic)

MANUFACTURING

The cooperative SOLEA started with three employees in 2000 in the plastics and metal component manufacturing. Based in Rybnik, in the eastern part of Czech Republic, it employs today more than 130 people; most of them (over 70%) are people with disabilities. This makes SOLEA one of the most signific...

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12 Apr 2019

AUXILIUM (Italy)

HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK

Auxilium ensures that its patients receive long-term care and healthcare services in their home. This is a valid alternative to hospitalisation and caters to the needs of patients suffering from the multiple, chronic effects of their disease.

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03 Apr 2019

SMART (Belgium)

ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT SERVICE

Smart started in Belgium in 1998 as a small non-profit organization aimed at providing artists with services adapted to the labour market evolutions. Today, it serves as much as 120,000 users in 9 European countries, 85,000 of which are based in Belgium.

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22 Mar 2019

SUMA (UK)

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE

SUMA is the largest independent wholefood wholesaler in the UK. It is also the country's largest workers cooperative, with more than 150 members and a turnover of 56 million euros, 14 million of which is own-brand products.

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12 Jul 2018

Outlandish (UK)

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

Outlandish is a London based digital agency working on “technology that makes the world a fairer, better place”. CECOP visited their offices on a warm afternoon in June, and spent a couple of hours with its co-founder Harry Robins to understand the operation of this successful worker cooperative.

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