SCC: Sharing, collaboration, cooperation

Sharing, collaboration, cooperation (SCC) 

Go to scc.coop
 

Duration:  
September 2018 – August 2021 

Fund:
Erasmus+, link to the Erasmus+ page results of this project.  

Lead:
Cooperatives Europe
 

Implementing partners:
Cooperatives Europe, Impact Hub Firenze, Tazebaez, OuiShare Quebec, Mondragon University, Febecoop, Ess’Pace, Condiviso. 

This partnership brought together co-working spaces, higher education institutions, innovation communities, and international networks and umbrella organizations. 

Context: 

The development and democratisation of digital technologies has had continuous and profound socio-economic impacts, creating the conditions for workers to gain autonomy and step away from job routine to pursue more independent and flexible work arrangements.  

This context has triggered new needs and aspirations, especially of three kinds:  

• (i) entrepreneurial (soft) skills, enabling individuals to collaborate, design and set up innovative projects and organisations;  
• (ii) physical spaces stimulating such collaborations;  
• (iii) models sustaining spaces combining openness (towards their beneficiaries and local stakeholders) and viability (through relevant business models).  

By establishing a strategic partnership between co-working spaces, innovation communities and educational institutions, Cooperatives Europe aims to stimulate the emergence of collaborative spaces for community-driven innovation and anticipate the transition towards a digital society.  

Objectives:
SCC starts from the spaces and tools enabling to Share, in a view to promote and stimulate Collaboration, leveraging Cooperation as a governance model for active participation through equality and democracy. It pursues the following objectives:  

1. Models: Supporting the transformation of co-working spaces towards collaborative spaces, stimulating community-driven collaborative innovation.  
2. Activities: Fostering the creation and systemisation of workflows between co-working spaces, Higher Education Institutions and innovation communities, for the democratisation and improvement of lifelong work-based entrepreneurial education. 
3. Tools: Developing methodologies aimed at systematising trans-sectoral educational partnerships for community-driven collaborative innovation embedding transnational cooperation and international mobility 

Key outputs:

• Caracol toolkit: The Caracol (Community-Aware Research and Action toolkit for Collaborative Learning) toolkit is a one-stop-shop for catalyst agents of collaborative experiences willing to involve academic institutions, students, citizens, organisations in the set up and creation of collaborative spaces, as well as opening up training and learning offer to collaborative spaces and communities. 
   
  It should be used as a general guide, a checklist to follow during the community engagement, space, services and learning offer design process. For every step, one or more open tools are referenced to obtain deeper and more detailed practical instruments. Download the Caracol toolkit.