The French law on the recognition and development of the social and solidarity economy, which has been in force since August 2014, introduces changes to the...
Javier Salaberría, CICOPA President from 2005 until 2011, sadly passed away on Saturday 26th July and we received this news with great sorrow. Javier...
Worker cooperatives in Belgium are getting organised. The Union des Scop Wallonie-Bruxelles has emerged this year thanks to the determination of more than 30...
On the eve of the International Cooperative Day, CICOPA, the voice of worker, social and artisans' cooperatives, is underlining the high potential of inc...
In 2013, a 32% increase in the creation of worker cooperatives was registered last year, according to the Spanish Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (COCET...
“It is with great satisfaction and pride that we welcome Prime Minister Renzi's decision to assign social cooperatives and social enterprises the r...
The European Commission organised a conference on 17 June on business transfer, grouping experts in the field for the occasion. CECOP was invited to share th...
With 263 new companies, 2013 was the best year in 6 years for the creation of worker cooperatives in France. The total number of companies is now 2,252 (a 4%...
Getting ready for summer destinations and planning to travel around Europe? Why not to visit a cooperative contributing to preserve and value the local indus...
The Italian social cooperative Progetto QUID was announced yesterday 20 May as one +of the three winners of the European Social Innovation Competition, organ...
With the aim of gathering ‘Ideas for a better Europe', more than 5,000 young people took part at the European Youth Event (EYE) organized by the Eu...
Social innovation is at the basis of cooperatives. Many examples all around Europe are showing how ideas that put people at the heart of the decision-making...
At the close of 2013 there was a 23% increase in the creation of worker cooperatives than at the same time the previous year. Up to 2013, there had been 10 p...
The General Assembly of CECOP, gathered today in Brussels, has elected Luca Dal Pozzo as the new President of CECOP. With this election, he becomes also Vice...
Europe needs urgently to invest more in the reindustrialization of its countries and regions and in the active inclusion for all citizens, with specific atte...
The Green Up Film Festival has selected the documentary TOGETHER, produced by CECOP to be screened from 16 – 30 April! It has been voted by the festiva...
The strong commitment of the Mondragon Corporation cooperatives to employment has matersalized, in spite of the economic situation. Only four months after fi...
In its 2014 Elections Memorandum the Social Economy Intergroup of the European Parliament calls on political parties and individual candidates for the Europe...
In March the city of Plovdiv, in Bulgaria, turns into the capital of cooperatives and social enterprises for people with disabilities. Cooperatives and socia...
The Green Up Film Festival has preselected the documentary TOGETHER, produced by CECOP! We need your support to get as much votes as possible! Vote for the d...
The European Route of the Cooperative Culture is a transnational itinerary in the field of cultural and industrial tourism which you can explore online. It i...
