Launching the Caring Cooperatively Webinar Series 🌍 🌎

🌍Caring Cooperatively: Euro-American Dialogues on a People-Led Care Economy🌎
📅 16 September 2025, 16 October 2025  

About the event

🌍Caring Cooperatively: Euro-American Dialogues on a People-Led Care Economy🌎 is a mini webinar series to bridge political dialogue with regional and global institutions and exchange best practices among cooperatives across Europe and the Americas to raise awareness on diverse national and regional cooperative approaches to the care sector. 

Through intercontinental case studies, peer-to-peer technical exchanges, and cross-sectorial dialogues, the two webinars will position the cooperative care economy as an effective people-led alternative to market-led care systems, with a cross-sectorial impact. 

Each webinar will host a dialogue among policy and cooperative practitioners in the care economy, followed by a Q&A participatory moment with the online audience. Simultaneous interpretation in English and Spanish will be made available, and the meetings recorded for further dissemination and follow-up activities. 

The 2-episode webinar series is organised by Cooperatives Europe and Cooperativas de las Américas under #coops4dev🌍 (ICA-EU Partnership) in the framework of the second-ever UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC2025).  

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Calendar

💻 Webinar 1: Care as Market Opportunity and Cooperative Difference
📅 September 16, 2025
⏲️ 15:00-16:30 CEST 

The first session will explore how the UN and the EU are positioning the care economy as both a policy priority and a market opportunity. This session will inform our cooperative members on global and regional programming in the care economy and give them the opportunity to discuss their contribution as a distinct, value-driven alternative to market-led care systems. 

💻 Webinar 2: The cooperative dual response to housing and care – Best Practices from Europe & Latin America 🌎 🌍
📅 October 16, 2025
⏲️ 15:00-16:30 CEST

Members from the European and American cooperative movements as well as academia will dive into their care models from both continents, to learn on their approaches, challenges and opportunities. This final session also explores how cooperative models are addressing housing needs through a care-centered lens. 

You should attend if you are 

• Our member or a cooperative 
• An advocate of people-led market solutions
• An expert in care and housing policies 
• Working and interested in the care economy and cooperative development

Why participate?

• Explore, compare and get inspired by the cooperative approach for an inclusive, formal and people-centred care economy through learning about national and regional experiences from Europe and the Americas.
• Learn about the state of affairs of EU and UN policy and programming on care.
• Connect with national and sectoral members of the European and American cooperative movement.

This article has been co-funded by the European Union. The contents of this article are the sole responsibility of  Cooperatives Europe and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.