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07 Apr 2017

Social tourism on the Italian Ionian coast

News

The Fratello sole (Brother Sun) social cooperative was created at the end of the 1970s following the introduction of the Basaglia reform which radically chan...

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04 Apr 2017

26/4 > Cooperatives and the Future of Work workshop in Malta

Event

The Future of Work initiative under the International Labour Organization (ILO) Centenary is a key issue for cooperatives which by representing about 9% of t...

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24 Mar 2017

A future of Europe that cares for the real economy, sustainable development and social jus...

Press release

As the European Union is celebrating 60 years, cooperatives in industry and services wish to call on the need for a new Europe that again cares for the real...

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22 Mar 2017

Offering sail trips as a way to improve life skills, knowledge and attitudes

News

For these cooperators navigating is more than a transportation system. Based in Chichester and stablished on 2009, the Sail Boat Project is a worker cooperat...

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21 Mar 2017

A former ochre factory to gather the region around color

News

Ôkhra is located in a former ochre factory built in 1921 in the area of Roussillon, a small town of 1300 inhabitants in the south of France’s Nat...

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16 Mar 2017

Giuseppe Guerini, President of CECOP: “Cooperatives are a real driver of change and one of...

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03 Mar 2017

Growth in employment in Spanish cooperatives: 13,249 new positions in 2016

News

2016 was a strong year for setting up worker cooperatives in Spain. According to the latest figures released by Spain’s Ministry of Employment, at the...

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08 Feb 2017

30/03 – 2/04: European Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) co-organised...

Position paper

Cooperatives and other social economy enterprises will meet for the sixth time in 2017 for the European Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Plovdiv (Bulgaria...

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26 Jan 2017

European Parliament calls for the promotion of cooperatives

Press release

CECOP welcomes the European Parliament Resolution of 19 January 2017 on a European Pillar of Social Rights, led by MEP Maria Joao Rodrigues (S&D), which...

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18 Jan 2017

The role played by cooperatives in building social justice whilst generating wealth and di...

Press release

The EU social model has been deteriorating gradually since the beginning of the crisis, with increasing levels of inequality, unemployment and a partial retu...

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18 Jan 2017

CECOP calls for the recognition of cooperatives and other social economy enterprises as th...

Press release

The President of CECOP, Giuseppe Guerini, has welcomed the newly elected President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani: “Cooperatives in industr...

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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

News

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...

News

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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28 Nov 2016

CECOP welcomes the European Commission’s Communication on the Start-up and Scale-up Initia...

Press release

CECOP, the European Confederation of industrial and service cooperatives, welcomes the recently launched Communication from the European Commission “Eu...

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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

Video

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...

Press release

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...

Press release

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...

Press release

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...

News

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

News

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...

News

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...

Video

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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