05.03.2016
Currently there are 20 million SMEs operating in all economic sectors and business transfers are an uptapped source of economic dynamism.
TransfertoCOOPS project develops a practical and pragmatic approach to improve the environment for transferring businesses to cooperatives and raise awareness about the cooperative benefits in Europe.
Some of the objectives include identification and assessment of existing practices and support schemes for transferring businesses to cooperatives, development of a common methodology and trans-European training modules and practices, organization of cross-border trainings and promotion campaigns and ensuring proper transfer of knowledge and expertise between member states.
The project started on 1st of April 2016 and will last for 18 months. The lead partner is Confederation generale des Scop (CG Scop, France) with Cooperatives Europe, Febecoop (Belgium), Centra alternativne in avtonomne produkcije- CAAP (Slovenia) and Coompanion (Sweden).
SE4Ces:Joining Social Economy Forces towards Community development, Connected societies, Co-creation of knowledge and Collaborative education practices.
With greater levels of uncertainty, social inequalities and unemployment as a result of economic and socio-political forces, Social Economy has proven to be part of the solution to address the needs of people to create stable employment and promote social inclusion.
Horizon2020 project CO-FRESH – Co-creating sustainable and competitive fruits and vegetables’ value chains in Europe CO-FRESH is an innovation action project funded by the European Union’s research and innovation programme Horizon2020, with the aim to promote more sustainable and efficient agri-food value chains through concrete actions and approaches. The project, with a duration of 42 months […]
The inclusion of an entrepreneurship approach, and more concretely a cooperative entrepreneurship approach, within the Higher Education context is lacking as stated by the European Commission in a report released on February 28th 2017, “An agenda for the modernization of higher education”. This gap is covered by Coop4EDU project, by accomplishing with the above mentioned priority […]
