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Industrial and Service Cooperatives: Global Report 2015-2016

After the first report released in 2015, the CICOPA second global biannual report on industrial and service cooperatives (2015-2016) is out. Based on a new methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative surveys with strengthened internal desk research, it aims to pursue and improve an exercise of reporting the evolution of its network whose very beginning dates back to 2004, as well as to draw an overall picture of the worldwide movement in this sector.

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Second Global Report on “Cooperatives and Employment”

Employment is one of the most important contributions made by cooperatives throughout the world. Whilst taking into account initiatives and debates at the international level regarding the issues of the future of work and the changing world of work, the present report also aims at updating the 2014 study, “Cooperatives and employment: a Global Report”

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CICOPA is the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives

CICOPA gathers 52 members from 36 countries, who affiliate 65,000 enterprises employing 4 million persons across the world.

CICOPA is a sector organisation of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) since 1947 and has three regional organisations: CECOP (CICOPA Europe), CICOPA Américas, and CICOPA Asia-Pacific.

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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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Our team

Contact the members of our staff.

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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.

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Technical 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.

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Cooperatives 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.

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Great 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).

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Declaration 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”.