AGCI Imprese Sociali is a national sectoral body of the General Association of Italian Cooperatives (AGCI), promoting social cooperatives. It represents 1242 cooperatives employing 29.240 workers of which 18,586 worker members. Their aggregate turnover is around 1.000 billion euro.
AGCI Produzione e Lavoro is a national sectorial body of the General Association of Italian Cooperatives (AGCI), promoting cooperatives active in industry, services, construction, transportation and logistics, environment and energy sectors in Italy. It represents 2,326 cooperatives employing 52,164 workers of which 39,929 worker members. Their aggregate turnover is 3 billion euro.
La Confédération Générale des Sociétés Coopératives et Participatives (CGSCOP) supports the creation, buyout and development of worker cooperatives and social cooperatives in France, offering a wide range of services: long-term assistance, financing, training, inter-professional exchange, rapresentation vis à vis the public authorities. It represents 3.177 cooperatives and 57.000 workers of which 75% are workers members. Their aggregate turnover is around 5 billion euro.
Coop Finland was established in 1997 as a national association of experts on cooperatives to keep up to date member’s expertise in cooperative development, by organising seminars and providing advice and skill-share. It affiliates 70 worker cooperatives providing multiple services, social and healthcare, knowledge-intensive, business administration and other services for business.
Representing the cooperative movement in Denmark, Kooperationen aims to promote the development of the cooperative idea and business form as an alternative to private business through its activities and by fostering cooperation between cooperative organizations, companies and associations. It represents approximately 92 cooperatives and 14,000 workers.
The Union of Czech Moravian and Production Cooperatives (SČMVD) provides its affiliated cooperatives with legal and financial advices and professional training, the organisation of joint expositions at national and international trade fairs and represents their interests. Its cooperatives operate in different fields of activities.
In 2007, a group of Polish cooperatives founded the National Auditing Union of Social Cooperatives (OZRSS).
OZRSS's goal is to assist in the creation and functioning of social cooperatives, it does so by: assisting in the implementation of staturoy tasks, conducting tranings for employees & members, developing cooperation between cooperatives.
Workers.coop is a federation of worker-led cooperatives, based in the United Kingdom. The goal of the federation is to help cooperatives achieve their training, political and commercial goals. Furthermore, they take part in raising awareness of the cooperative model amongst workers and young people.
The Malta Co-operative Federation is an organisation which seeks to aid, advance, expand and unite co-operative societies.
The federation consists of a network of new-wave and successful co-operative businesses seeking to promote, strengthen and improve the co-operative model in Malta.
The National Union of Worker Producers’ strengthens and develops the enterprises affiliated to the Union in the spirit of the cooperatives principles and values. It represents 202 worker cooperatives with more than 10,760 worker members throughout the country. 27 producers cooperatives employ disable people, providing jobs for 1,040 worker members with various degrees of disabilities.
CAAP Slovenia is a support NGO for the development of the social economy and new social practices, with a focus on research, development, advocacy and training and counseling in the field of cooperatives.
CAAP's long-term vision is to become an organizationally and financially stable professional, specialized and internationally connected support organization for the development of cooperatives and new social practices related to cooperatives.
The Swedish Network of Cooperatives Development Centers - Coompanion consists of 25 regional umbrella organizations acting as business advisor working to sustain, give assistance and train new cooperatives in Sweden.
Part of Confcooperative, Confcooperative lavoro e servizi is a federation that represents and gives legal, technical, financial assistance to its affiliated members, mainly worker cooperatives in the sectors of service and transports. It has 4.854 affiliated cooperatives, employs 155.000 workers and has 250.102 individual members.
Federsolidarietà is part of Confcooperative and represents and gives legal, technical, financial assistance to social cooperatives affiliated to its network. It has 6.245 affiliated cooperatives, 225.900 individual members and 228.900 workers with an annual turnover of €6.3 billion.
Cooperazione, Finanza, Impresa is an institutional investor, in form of cooperative, promoted in 1986 by three main Italian Cooperative Confederations to manage the Marcora Law, whose main objective is to provide financial and management support to worker and social cooperatives established through business transfers to employees. Since 1986 it has invested 223 million euros to support more than 380 cooperatives and save around 17.800 jobs.
SMART Belgium is a cooperative which helps freelancers minimise entrepreneurship risks and administrative burdens providing them the legal framework and protection of employees. It represents 85,000 individual members in Belgium.
The European Research and Development Service for the Social Economy supports the development of the social economy in Europe through the implementation of knowledge-based activities, such as training, project design, consultancy and advisory services, technical assistance and research.
Co-operatives UK is the network for Britain's thousands of co-operatives. We work together to promote, develop and unite member-owned businesses across the UK economy, with 700 direct members and representing a further 3,500 through federal members. From high street retailers to community owned pubs, fan owned football clubs to farmer controlled businesses, together co-operatives are worth £36 billion to the British economy.
The Spanish Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (Confederación Española de Cooperativas de Trabajo Asociado) - COCETA, promotes and defends the interests of regional unions and federations of worker cooperatives in the sector of manufacturing, construction, tourism, as well as social, health and education in Spain. It represents 17.000 worker cooperatives, 210.000 workers and a turnover of €1,3 million.
Coop Product Slovakia is an open association grouping together production cooperatives and other cooperatives.