CICOPA gathers 52 members from 36 countries including organisations promoting cooperatives and national representative organisations affiliating around 65,000 industrial and service cooperatives providing an estimated 4 million jobs across the world.
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A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
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Why and how to become a member of our network.
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Main founding documents on CICOPA and cooperatives’ identity.
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Hosting 35 cooperators from 9 different countries (Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland, Wales, United States, Japan, Sri Lanka) with a focus on communication, social farming and management, the 2017 edition confirmed the International School as a unique place of dialogue and mutual learning.
Read MoreSG Bruno Roelants explained at the seminar on “Cooperatives and the Social and Solidarity Economy in Greece and around the world” (Athens, 23 Sept 2017) the major flaws in the new Greek law on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and cooperative legislation.
Read MoreCICOPA, the international organisation of industrial and service cooperatives, published today its second global report on “Cooperatives and Employment”. Based on data from 156 countries, the updated estimate shows that employment in or within the scope of cooperatives concerns at least 279.4 million people across the globe, in other words 9.46% of the world’s employed population.
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The “Fuori di Zucca” social farm was created in 2005 in Aversa, between Caserta and Naples, as a result of the vocation and the aspirations of the members of the “Un fiore per la vita” Cooperative to continue the historic rural tradition of Campania Felix. The idea was to introduce modern farming methods and new productive activities to restore dignity and value to people through the creation of a social economy, to promote respect for the environment and to develop people’s awareness and consumption of local products.
Read MoreSocial cooperatives are among the most vital actors of the economy in today’s world, showing the capacity to understand the challenges our societies face today. 30 Cooperative managers from Italy, Japan, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Slovenia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Turkey actively attended the Social Cooperatives International School held from 20 to 23 October in Naples (Italy).
Read MoreCICOPA presents its “Declaration on Migrants and Refugees”. Through this text, the organization reiterates the fact that cooperatives of this type “contribute to a decent and dignified life and to the social and economic integration of refugees and migrants in various parts of the world”.
Read MoreThe first global biannual report on industrial and service cooperatives (2013-2014) provides a picture of this worldwide movement. The close to 65,000 enterprises affiliated to CICOPA member organizations, 95% of them being SMEs, employ over 3 million people.
Read MoreIn September 2015, at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, world leaders have adopted the 2030 Agenda aiming at achieving targeted Sustainable Development Goals over the next 15 years. To end poverty, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth together with inclusive and sustainable industrialization and ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns are some of the goals. Employing 16 million people worldwide, worker, social and producers’ cooperatives express their commitment to keep contributing to the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda. As enterprises based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity, they have been working to achieve those goals for years now.
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The document “Cooperatives are key to the transition from the informal to the formal economy” by CICOPA argues that the cooperative entrepreneurial model is particularly adapted to lifting people out of poverty and carrying out the transition to the formal economy.
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The first study “Cooperatives and Employment: a global report” discusses the significance of cooperative employment in the global landscape, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Read MoreAs part of the answer to the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda, CICOPA is publishing the results of the study “Cooperatives as builders of sustainable development”, showing the state-of-the-art of worker, social and artisans’ cooperatives in contributing to sustainable development.
Read MoreThe report “Promoting cooperatives and the Social Economy in Greece – How to promote the social economy in Greece through social cooperatives, worker cooperatives, and cooperatives of artisans and of SMEs” was undertaken by CICOPA at International Labour Irganisation (ILO) request.
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