Mission & Values
The main mission of CICOPA is to promote and represent workers’, social and producers’ cooperatives at the world level.
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Secretary General Bruno Roelants appointed as Director-General of the ICA
Today, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) appointed Bruno Roelants as its new Director-General. Mr Roelants, currently Secretary General at CICOPA and CECOP-CICOPA Europe, will begin his new role in the coming weeks.
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Cooperative Care (The Mar del Plata Limited Homecare Workers Cooperative)
In 2004 in the city of Mar del Plata, in the province of Buenos Aires, a program on Domiciliary Care was created, covering the subject of elderly, disabled and chronically ill. Something new for the Argentinian society: to think about the elderly and the representation of old age.
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Our Members
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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Board Members
Contact the members of our board.
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What is a Cooperative?
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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Become a Member
Why and how to become a member of our network.
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Protected: Documents
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Data Protection Policy
This policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data we collect, in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Founding documents
Main founding documents on CICOPA and cooperatives’ identity.
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A unique place of dialogue and mutual learning: #SCIS2017
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 MoreTechnical Brief on the Greek SSE Law and Cooperative
SG 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 MoreCooperatives are responsible for almost 10% of world employment, new study shows
CICOPA, 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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Social farming in Italy: how the social cooperative “Un Fiore per la vita” is showing the way forward
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 MoreGreat success of the SCIS2016: 4 days of international exchange of Social Cooperatives
Social 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 MoreDeclaration on migrants and refugees
CICOPA 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 MoreIndustrial and Service Cooperatives: Global Report 2013-2014
The 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 MoreWorker, social and producers’ cooperatives will keep contributing to the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda
In 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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Cooperatives are key to the transition from the informal to the formal economy
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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