The international organisation for industrial and service cooperatives
CICOPA gathers 49 members from 32 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 two regional organisations: CECOP-CICOPA Europe and CICOPA Americas.
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The main mission of CICOPA is to promote and represent workers’, social and producers’ cooperatives at the world level.
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CICOPA gathers 49 members from 32 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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Contact the members of our board.
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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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Why and how to become a member of our network.
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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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Main founding documents on CICOPA and cooperatives’ identity.
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