In recent years various scholars and representatives of important institutions have sustained that cooperatives have responded better to the crisis than other forms of enterprises. The resiliency of the cooperative model has been interpreted as the consequence of their different nature, in particular their orientation towards the satisfaction of a need rather than the distribution of profits. This particularity, it is suggested, pushes cooperatives to maintain production levels even under conditions of reduced or negative revenue. Read More
PRESS RELEASEVenice, March 19 2012
Final statement from Carlo Borzaga, president of Euricse, sums up the two daysThe conference “Promoting the understanding of cooperatives for a better world” organized by Euricse, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and the Alliance of Italian Cooperatives for the UN International Year of Cooperatives closed on Friday in Venice. Read More
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Venice, March 16 2012First statements from keynote speakers on the economic importance of the cooperative model Read More
PRESS RELEASEVenice, March 16 2012
An appeal presented in Venice during an international conference on cooperatives asks the European Union to focus on funding the real economy in order to overcome the economic crisis Read More
PRESS RELEASETrento, March 6, 2012
Cooperatives' potential role in the reform of the dominant economic model to be discussed at a conference in Venice, 15-16 March, 2012What effects will the financial crisis have? Will Europe be able to move beyond the negative economic trends and radically transform its social and economic development model? And what contribution can cooperative enterprises and the social economy in general bring to the new geopolitical context? Read More
PRESS RELEASETrento, February 19, 2012
As David Cameron announces new legislation promoting cooperatives, a conference on 15-16 March brings international debate on the issue to Italy Read More
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Trento, February 13th 2012
A scientific and topical round-table discussion on their contribution to reforming the dominant economic model will be held in Venice, 15-16 March Read More