Given the extent of the damage provoked by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake and numerous after shocks, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) has made an appeal to members to...
The resolution that the United Nations have just adopted is a real plea for cooperatives. This new resolution on the role of cooperatives in social development proclaims 2012 as...
On 18 November, CICOPA in collaboration with its regional organisation, CECOP-CICOPA Europe, organised a seminar on environment in Geneva, Switzerland. It took place in the afte...
The Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) is a research program seeks to identify those organizations which are out-performing their peers by above average growth in intelle...
Dame Pauline Green was elected for a four year term as President of the ICA at the organisation’s general assembly held in Geneva on 19 - 20 November 2009 on the theme &ld...
The annual conference “From the European Charter for Small Enterprises to the Small Business Act” was held in Stockholm on the 5th and 6th October. This event was or...
This is a real history, with real people, with a great idea of change! Many solutions have been proposed to face the global economic downturn but just few of them are really con...
CECOP is in mourning. Antoine Antoni iconic figure of the French cooperative movement died on 4 July, – international day of cooperatives – at the age of 92.
The third European cooperative society has been created in Italy on 29 June 2009. Nova SCE has had a long period of constitution which was necessary in order to meet with the ha...
Confcooperative, one of the main Italian cooperative organisations, celebrated its ninetieth birthday during the general assembly that was held in Rome on May 26. More than 1000...
Concerned by the current economic crisis and its serious challenges for employment, sustainability of the enterprises and social cohesion, CECOP has submitted to its members a c...
The death of the ICA's President Ivano Barberini on the 6 of May represents the loss of one of the most significant actors whom the Italian and international movement have e...
The European conference on social economy organized by SCMVD, the Czech Union of production cooperatives, which is a CECOP member, in collaboration with the Confederation of Emp...
Concerned by the current economic crisis and its serious challenges for employment, sustainability of the enterprises and social cohesion, CICOPA (directly and through its regio...
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% l...
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 unde...
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 c...
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-bo...
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 developmen...
