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...
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...
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...
The “Development of cooperatives: financial instruments for investing” workshop, which was jointly organised yesterday by CECOP together with the European Econo...
CECOP, the European confederation of industrial and service cooperatives, welcomes the publication by the European Commission of the proposal for a new Direc...
The experience of industrial and service cooperatives was shared during the European Economic and Social Committee – International Labour Organisation...
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...
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...
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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Today, the plenary session of the European Parliament has approved the report entitled 'How best to harness the job creation potential of SMEs?', whi...
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...
CECOP has recently published the answer of cooperatives active in industry and services to a European Commission (EC) Public consultation under the Start-up...
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...
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...
Tomorrow is the International Day of Cooperatives. To celebrate it, the international cooperative movement is showing how those enterprises promote the Unite...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
