Publications

“Building Inclusive Enterprises in Africa – Cooperative Case Studies” document showcases 21 best practices from diverse African cooperatives and how they have an impact on the development of this continent. In particular they highlight the ability of cooperative businesses to empower youth and women, to bring significant improvements to...

‘The Power of Cooperation – Cooperatives Europe Key Figures 2015’ gathers statistics collected during a 18-month long research project with members, combining the efforts and contributions of 40 national and sectoral experts from 34 European countries. The report brings forward the impact of cooperatives across Europe, which provide more...

“Cooperative Platforms in a European Landscape: An Exploratory Study” by Cooperatives Europe, in collaboration with LAMA Development and Cooperation Agency is the first known European exploratory study of its kind that provides an overview of established cooperatives already developing innovations in the collaborative economy field and reveals the results of the online...

  Cooperatives Europe has released TransfertoCOOPS flyers in the framework of the project. The flyers provide information regarding business transfers into worker-owned cooperatives in Europe. With over 450,000 SMEs transferred each year in the EU, transfers into worker-owned cooperatives remain an untapped source of economic dynamism which could ensure secure...

“Beyond borders: #CoopYouth for a stronger global movement” was released during the International Cooperative Summit 2016 in Quebec. Gathering contributions from 70 young cooperators, the document presents the existing youth networks from the four regions of the International Cooperative Alliance and provides insight into the activities carried out across the world....

The video titled “The collaborative economy, what is it?” was released by Cooperatives Europe and Possum Interactive, a creative digital cooperative agency. The short animation underlines the potential of cooperatives for the future of collaborative economy. Read the full press release.  

“Good practices in international cooperative development: Why creating a knowledge sharing culture is key for international cooperative development work” publication aims to foster a better understanding of the methods and approaches used by the Cooperatives Europe Development Platform (CEDP) organisations in their international cooperative development work. The document maps the CEDP...

Cooperatives Europe, together with the iCareCoops project consortium released a new “Foundation Guide” – a guidebook to support the creation of innovative older people’s care cooperatives. The guidebook supports new and future entrepreneurs in developing their cooperative projects in 6 steps. The guide, based on the Best Practices report written by Cooperatives Europe, also comes with an...

Cooperatives Europe’s remarks on the interim evaluation of the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) (2014 – 2020)  

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