Last year 8,533 first jobs were created in new cooperatives in Spain
Just like the previous years, 2015 was a good year for worker cooperatives. In fact, 8,533 first jobs were created in new cooperatives. To put this into pers...
Just like the previous years, 2015 was a good year for worker cooperatives. In fact, 8,533 first jobs were created in new cooperatives. To put this into pers...
The CICOPA Danish member Kooperationen is already planning its second conference for community-owned renewable energy cooperatives, which will be organised t...
Biciclot, which is a member of the Cooproute and is a bike recycling cooperative that works with people in need and offers bike tours for groups of 4 to 40 p...
More than 100 exhibitors from 16 countries participated in the Fifth European Fair of social economy enterprises and cooperatives in the city of Plovdiv (Bul...
The gravest migration and humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II and other serious challenges migrants are facing all over the world have urged coo...
The “Koperattiva Ghawdxija tal-Bizzilla u Artigjanat”, is a cooperative that consists of 16 members, who are all women. They are lace-makers, liv...
Several cooperative and participative enterprises in the French construction sector will soon be able to display the Worker Cooperatives BTP (Construction an...
Italian cooperatives accord priority to the integration of women in the labour market. Not only are 61% of their employees women, 23.6% of them hold top leve...
More than 200 people participated in the European Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, “Transforming the economic and cultural paradigms”, held on 28 January...
The November/December issue of the magazine Work Together sharing the latest news on cooperatives active in industry and services worldwide is out! Specifi...
Social innovation in Italy is making a difference, even in agriculture. Multiple experiences of social agriculture have “sprouted" around the coun...
Juan Antonio Pedreño, President of the Spanish worker cooperative confederation (COCETA) and of CEPES, the Spanish business confederation of social ec...
On Monday 7th of December, the European ministers in charge of employment and social affairs met to discuss the development of the social economy in the fram...
The cooperative is among the types of company that has the highest number of women in senior positions in Italy: 23% versus 16% in other types of companies....
A video created in a collaborative manner that shares the experiences, challenges and motivations of young cooperators in 9 worker and social cooperatives fr...
Precarious work, not in line with their studies, a lack of independence…According to the latest numbers from the OECD, at least 75 million youths in t...
Thirty cooperators from different parts of Europe met in Milan on 11th of October to take part at the first edition of Social Cooperatives and Social Enterpr...
Raise your hand if you were taught about cooperatives in school? Until now, it was almost easier to discover them during your stay in kindergarten and primar...
On 13 October the International Conference On Health Care Cooperatives organized a workshop entitled “Feeding the welfare: coops in health care”...
According to the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE), social cooperatives operating in the sector of health and socia...
The European Women's Lobby, the largest umbrella organization of women’s associations in the European Union, has recently launched the first resear...
As an answer to youth unemployement, the Italian Confederation of cooperatives, Confcooperative has launched the platform Coop4job. The goal of www.coop4job....