Concerned by the current economic crisis and its serious challenges for employment, sustainability of the enterprises and social cohesion, CICOPA (directly and through its regional organisation CECOP-CICOPA Europe as far as Eur...
There had been less worker cooperatives created in 2008 in comparison to the previous years. Economic crisis has touched the growth of cooperative movement, which created 1,7% less enterprises than in 2007. These data have been...
The International European Conference on Social Economy and Social Enterprise will take place from 16 to 18 April 2009 in Prague as part of the official programme of events under the Czech Republic's Presidency of the EU Co...
Deadline: 1st. october 2008
The delegation was from RECM (Reunion Especializada de Cooperativas de Mercosur), the MERCOSUR official agency for cooperatives, which comprises the national administration of control and promotion of cooperatives and the natio...
The EU's renewed social agenda, presented on 2nd of July, features proposals on strengthening the fight against discrimination and improving workers' rights and cross-border healthcare. It is one of the Commission's...
With over 16% of the EU's GDP (1500 billion euros in 2002), public procurement represents a considerable stake for all European enterprises, and thus also for the development of the cooperative and participative enterprises...
Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd October 2008 _ Maison des Associations Internationales (MAI) _ Rue de Washington 40 - 1050 Brussels
“Worker ownership: the synthesis between entrepreneurial development and social inclusion” - Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd October 2008, Brussels. .
Deadline: 10 October 2008
Deadline: 10 October 2008
Deadline: 30 September 2008
Last week, Olivier Biron from the CECOP secretariat visited the Unicorn co-operative in Manchester at the occasion of a private trip in England. This is part of a global training approach that CECOP is implementing for its staf...
A new ICA has been approved at this extraordinary general assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), after two years of preparation in which the ICA sectoral organisations in general, and CICOPA in particular, ha...
