We are pleased to announce that next Monday, March 19 2018, a seminar on co-operative entrepreneurship will be taking place in Porto, addressed to anyone teaching, involved or interested in social economy and the co-operatives world. We would like to thank our Portuguese partners -Universidade de...
The initiative, lead by the University of Cantabria and Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre, promotes the cooperative entrepreneurship spirit to improve European high school and university students The ECOOPE (Entrepreneurial Cooperative Experience) partners met in Santander to discuss the future guidelines of this project co-funded by the...
Now that we know what is a co-operative, we want to go a bit further and explain, as short and sweet as possible, the types of co-operatives. It’s important to point out that co-operatives are a unique species inside the contemporary economic environment. They are...
There are two reasons why you are here: a) you want to know what a co-operative is or b) you already know, but want to check if we do ?. First things first, let us put our academic-looking glasses on and check several dictionaries to...
Our research experts Angela Colebrook, Minna Hämäilänen and Dana Redford, from the Cooperative College, Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and Policy Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (PEEP) explain what ECOOPE will mean for the European labour market. For Angela, Learning and Development manager from Cooperative College UK,...
Kerstin Maier, from ECOOPE's project management team, explains what ECOOPE is: ECOOPE is an international project, led by the University of Cantabria and CISE (Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre), with the support of five international partners from the co-operative movement, entrepreneurship education in secondary schools and Higher...
• The project, focused on pilot experiences, is co-funded by the European Union and will be completed in May, 2018 After a two day-meeting in Porto, the European project Entrepreneurial Cooperative Experience has officially started. The project partners planned ECOOPE’s first steps and further actions, in...
The initiative will promote a cooperative spirit and entrepreneurship skills of high school and university students from all over Europe to improve their employability. The project ECOOPE - Entrepreneurial Cooperative Experience – co-funded by the European Commission with a total budget of over 300.000 euros was...
