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11 Jan 2017

25 - 26/04 CECOP General Assembly

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09 Jan 2017

19 - 22/10: Social Cooperatives International School 2017, Naples

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12 Dec 2016

Social cooperatives create the first Italian network of social agriculture

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After one year from the approval of the Italian law on social agriculture, the first Italian network of social agriculture "AgriCo.Re – Agricoltur...

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05 Dec 2016

EU Member States recognise the contribution of the Social Economy to sustainable job creat...

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Ten EU Member States have signed the Bratislava Declaration, calling for an increased recognition of the importance of the Social Economy and urging the Memb...

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27 Nov 2016

5/12 > Towards a fair sharing economy: The role and place of cooperative platforms

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25 Nov 2016

Intercooperation among tech cooperatives: from New Zealand to the UK

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Cooperatives from the digital sector are joining together in the UK around the Megazord project, a coalition of tech-focused cooperatives that pool their res...

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25 Nov 2016

The President of CECOP receives recognition of the Polish cooperative movement on its 200t...

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The president of CECOP, Giuseppe Guerini has received the medal for the 200th anniversary of the Polish cooperative movement under the patronage of the Presi...

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24 Nov 2016

CECOP calls for improvements to be made to European funding systems supporting cooperative...

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The “Development of cooperatives: financial instruments for investing” workshop, which was jointly organised yesterday by CECOP together with the European Econo...

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22 Nov 2016

CECOP welcomes the European Commission proposal for a new Directive on preventive restruct...

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CECOP, the European confederation of industrial and service cooperatives, welcomes the publication by the European Commission of the proposal for a new Direc...

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17 Nov 2016

“Cooperatives can dignify work”, Giuseppe Guerini, President of CECOP at the EESC-ILO Conf...

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The experience of industrial and service cooperatives was shared during the European Economic and Social Committee – International Labour Organisation...

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04 Nov 2016

Great success of the SCIS2016: 4 days of international exchanges on social cooperatives

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Social cooperatives are among the most vital actors of the economy in today’s world, showing the capacity to understand the challenges our societies fa...

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31 Oct 2016

Béatrice Barras, co-founder of French cooperative Ardelaine, receives the French state med...

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Béatrice Barras, co-founder of worker cooperative Ardelaine, has received the French state medal of the “Ordre du Mérite ». Ardelaine is the fruit of the restau...

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18 Oct 2016

European industrial and service cooperatives participate in the International Summit of Co...

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The third International Summit of Cooperatives, an initiative of the International Co-operative Alliance and Desjardins Group, took place from 11 to 13 Octob...

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16 Sep 2016

Are you a cooperative manager? Register to the SCIS2016 before 22 September: few seats lef...

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Are you a social cooperative manager willing to know other international experiences? Keep on reading. Register before 22 September for the Social Cooperativ...

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15 Sep 2016

The European Parliament recognises the job creation potential of small and medium cooperat...

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Today, the plenary session of the European Parliament has approved the report entitled 'How best to harness the job creation potential of SMEs?', whi...

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23 Aug 2016

Italy has adopted a reform of the third sector which introduces significant new developmen...

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Social entrepreneurship in Italy may well be about to experience a new period of developments. The reform of the third sector, which was approved by the Parl...

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11 Aug 2016

Cooperatives in industry and services share their expertise for the design of the EC Start...

Position paper

CECOP has recently published the answer of cooperatives active in industry and services to a European Commission (EC) Public consultation under the Start-up...

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05 Aug 2016

First Greek law covering both social cooperatives and worker cooperatives to be discussed...

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The Greek government has prepared a draft law on Social and Solidarity Economy and the development of its agencies, which will soon be discussed by the Greek...

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18 Jul 2016

Social Cooperatives International School from 20 to 23 October in Naples

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The second edition of the Social Cooperatives International School (SCIS2016) will be held in Naples (Italy) from 20 to 23 October 2016. The School, with a h...

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01 Jul 2016

Industrial and service cooperatives: essential allies to achieve the UN Sustainable Develo...

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Tomorrow is the International Day of Cooperatives. To celebrate it, the international cooperative movement is showing how those enterprises promote the Unite...

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27 Jun 2016

France announces the creation of the first Scop grouping: Calice

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Since 31 July 2014, the law on the SSE (Social and Solidarity Economy) has authorised the creation of groupings of Scops in order to improve the model’...

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27 Jun 2016

Elections: Giuseppe Guerini new President of CECOP

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The General Assembly of CECOP, gathered in Brussels on 23 June, has elected Giuseppe Guerini as the new President of CECOP. With this election, he will also...

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23 Jun 2016

Cooperatives, journalism, and freedom of expression in Spain

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Over the last few years, media companies have made many cut-backs in Spain, and lots of journalists have lost their job. Furthermore, young journalists who h...

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13 Jun 2016

Last year 8,533 first jobs were created in new cooperatives in Spain

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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...

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11 May 2016

Kooperationen is planning its Second Conference on Community-owned Energy Cooperatives in...

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The CICOPA Danish member Kooperationen is already planning its second conference for community-owned renewable energy cooperatives, which will be organised t...

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