European Confederation of Workers' Cooperatives, Social Cooperatives and Social and Participative Enterprises
Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Mar 2025 | Amaryllis Verhoeven Head of Unit | 1. Raising Awareness of Cooperatives 2. Cooperative experience with the CSRD 3. Alignment with Commission Priorities 4. Recognising Cooperatives as competitive actors | SRC |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Amaryllis Verhoeven Head of Unit | 1. Raising Awareness of Cooperatives 2. Cooperative experience with the CSRD 3. Alignment with Commission Priorities 4. Recognising Cooperatives as competitive actors | — |
| 29 Nov 2023 | Santina Bertulessi Cabinet member | Social Economy/ Workers Buyouts | SRC |
| 29 Nov 2023 | Santina Bertulessi Cabinet member | Social Economy/ Workers Buyouts | — |
| 05 Mar 2021 | Santina Bertulessi Cabinet member | Intervention in a roundtable event “Stand up for the Social Pillar” on the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the road to the Porto Social Summit. | — |
| 05 Mar 2021 | Anouk Faber Cabinet member | Intervention in a roundtable event “Stand up for the Social Pillar” on the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the road to the Porto Social Summit. | SRC |
| 05 Mar 2021 | Santina Bertulessi Cabinet member | Intervention in a roundtable event “Stand up for the Social Pillar” on the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the road to the Porto Social Summit. | SRC |
Mission & Goals
- Represent the interests of our members to the EU institutions, other European-level policy makers, national governments, and the wider cooperative movement - Support our members through networking, mutual learning, designing common strategies and agreeing collective positions - Develop industrial and service cooperatives across Europe, and support their capacity to cooperate with each other – building new national organisations where they don’t yet exist - Increase the visibility of cooperatives in industry and services, in the forms they are mainly organised - worker cooperatives, social cooperatives and cooperatives of self-employed producers - Carry out research and contribute to knowledge about industrial and service cooperatives
EU Legislative Interests
CECOP-CICOPA Europe covers mainly the following EU policies: enterprise and SME policies, employment, social inclusion, internal market and competition, regional development, taxation etc.
Communication Activities
Campaigns: - Quality jobs: the cooperative way 2025 - CECOP Manifesto 2024 - CoopSkills2023 campaign - on skills and worker buyouts - Care Campaign 2022 - on care cooperatives - Lights ON! Campaign 2021 - on informal economy - Campaign 2019 on non-standard and platform work ‘ALL FOR ONE’ Events: -Quality Jobs, the Cooperative Way (Brussels, October 2025) - Conference "Workers Buyouts - What is the cooperative key to success" (Brussels, November 2023) - Session at the EU Industry Days: "A win-win for the enterprises and the planet? How energy community cooperatives are creating a more resilient and energy independent future for European enterprises" (Madrid, october 2023) - Workshop on "Social Economy as driving force for green and digital transition" (Göteborg, Juin 2023) - Conference "Cooperatives as frontrunners of innovation in the care sector" (Brussels, November 2022) - Conference on cooperatives’ contribution to the transition from informal to formal economy and employment (online, November 2021) - Workshop on the future of the European Disability Strategy (online, April 2021) - Conference on non-standard and platform work ‘ALL FOR ONE’, Online, November/December 2020 - Workshop on the role of education in the European Pillar of Social Rights, Poland (online, 2020) - CECOP at the 2019 EU Industry Days – "Industrial cooperatives are drivers of the circular economy", Brussels, February 2019 - Workshop "Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: The role of the European Semester and the new MFF", Madrid, December 2018 - conference "What Future for youth at risk of exclusion? How worker and social cooperatives contribute to social inclusion of young people", Brussels, November 2018 - conference “How to promote sustainable tourist experiences through the European Route of Cooperative Culture”, Brussels, February 2015 - conference "Cooperatives and work integration of disadvantaged persons", Brussels (European Economic and Social Committee - EESC), November 2013 - conference "Sustainable business transfers in Europe. With specific focus on business transfers to employees, Brussels (EESC), June 2013 - conference "Social Cooperatives in Europe and the Social Business Initiative", Brussels (EESC), April 2012 - première of the documentary film "Together" produces by CECOP-CICOPA Europe, Brussels (EESC), June 2012 - photo exhibition "Through their eyes", Brussels (European Parliament), September 2012 Publications: - Cooperatives care! Advantages of the cooperative model for meeting multiple care-related needs and challenges in the EU, 2022 - LIGHTS ON! Publication on cooperatives’ contribution to the transition from informal to formal economy and employment, 2021 - Lasting Impact. Measuring the social impact of worker and social cooperatives in Europe: focus on Italy and Spain. Publication of statistics on cooperatives contributing to social inclusion, 2021 - "All for One - Response of worker-owned cooperatives to non-standard employment", 2019 - "Business transfers to employees under a form of a cooperative in Europe", June 2013 - documentary film "Together. How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis", 2012 - study "The resilience of the cooperative model", June 2012 - book "Cooperatives, territories and jobs: twenty experiences of cooperatives active in industry and services across Europe", 2011 - book "Beyond the crisis: cooperatives, work, finance. Generating wealth for the long-term", 2011 More information about our activities, as well as all the positions and answers to European Commission consultations can be found on our web site: www.cecop.coop
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
CECOP-CICOPA Europe is a member of: - the Social Platform - REVES - European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy - Social Economy Europe - Social Services Europe CECOP-CICOPA Europe is also a sectoral member (industry and services) of Cooperatives Europe
Organisation Members
There are 20 full members and 6 associate members and 1 network associate from 15 European countries and 1 UK member organisation in the CECOP-CICOPA Europe network. The list of the member organization is available on our web page: https://cecop.coop/members