The third episode of the series “Coop Cinema” was a success. On the 27th of January, our journey around the world to discover the capacity of cooperatives to empower workers, communities and environment took us to South America. Watch the webinar “Empowering the planet“ Watch the… Read More
The ninth edition of the Monitor is going to be presented during an international webinar On the 20th of January 2021 at 2 pm (CET) on Zoom, Euricse, together with the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), is presenting the 2020 issue of the… Read More
Renewable energy coops in Costa Rica and a cooperative of waste picklers in Argentina as fair models for a clean future of our planet. The third and last episode of Coop Cinema is about “Empowering the planet“. We will screen two documentaries featuring renewable energy coops in Costa Rica and… Read More
Innovation happens on the ground. This is the fil rouge that links the two documentaries filmed by Around the World and screened in the second episode of Coop Cinema on the 18th of November. Ilana Gotz from Euricse opened the webinar, giving the floor to Hanna… Read More
On the 7th of October, in the first episode of our "Coop Cinema" webinar series, Euricse experts succeeded in linking the experiences of the Up & Go digital platform for cleaners in New York, with the Cheese Board Collective bakery in Berkeley, highlighting the ways that cooperative enterprises empower workers. Read More
A trip around the world in three webinars recounting the cooperative economy through the work of Around the World.coop and commentary from Euricse. "Coop cinema" is a series of online events from October to December featuring screenings of a selection of documentaries produced by Sara Vicari and Andrea Mancori, each followed by reflections from our researchers on the key themes, such as cooperative models, governance, the future of work, and local development. Read More
The challenges and prospects for growth of cooperative and responsible finance are at the center of the 10th annual workshop on the subject organized in Trento on June 20th and 21st 2019 by Euricse in collaboration with Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks), with the support of… Read More
A new book edited by Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi and Carlo Borzaga, published by Oxford University Press Handbook
“Mutual, co-operative and co-owned business” is the title of The Oxford University Press Handbook edited by Jonathan Michie, University of Oxford (UK), Joseph R. Blasi, Rutgers University (USA), and Carlo Borzaga, University of Trento (Italy) is now available.The handbook analyses, describes, and explains the complex world of organisations that assign ownership rights and governance control to stakeholders other than investors. The complexity of this set of organisations results both from the different degree of control exerted by stakeholders in each typology, and from different legislative and regulatory frameworks that govern these organisational forms. Read More
This joint initiative is part of the global effort around improving cooperative statistics. The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) held in Geneva from in October 2013 recognized the importance of having more comprehensive and internationally comparable statistics on the cooperatives by adopting a resolution for advancing work on the topic. Read More
The World Co-operative Monitor 2016 is the fifth edition of the annual research report produced by the International Co-operative Alliance (the Alliance) with the scientific and technical support of Euricse. The research, widely considered the primary source for global statistics on the economic dimensions of the co-operative movement, includes a new feature in 2016: an analysis of the capital structure of the Top 300 co-operative enterprises. Also included in this year’s edition is a special section focusing on consumer co-operatives within the Wholesale and retail trade sector. Read More
The Euricse-IHCO (International Health Co-operative Organisation, a sectoral organisation of the International Co-operative Alliance) research project on health cooperatives and mutuals has officially started. On July 8th, the Euricse research team (Michela Giovannini, Carlo Borzaga and Gianluca Salvatori) met in Madrid with José Guisado and Jose Pérez, respectively President and secretary of IHCO. The meeting took place at the headquarters of Asisa, the leading Spanish cooperative in the insurance sector and member of Fundación Espriu, a cooperative group, of which Guisado is CEO, operating in the health sector. Read More
The 5th edition of the World Co-operative Monitor, an initiative of the International Co-operative Alliance and Euricse, will be published this fall and presented by Gianluca Salvatori at the International Summit of Cooperatives on October 11, 2016 in Quebec, Canada. The report presents the results from quantitative research on the world’s largest cooperative and mutual enterprises. Read More