Italy lags behind almost every other European country when it comes to womens employment. Employment rates for men are more than 20 percentage points higher than those for women. And women represent only 4 percent of company board members, the second-lowest rate in Western Europe, even though on average Italian women are better educated than […]
iDEE
iDEE is an association that works to promote the role of women within the cooperative banking system in Italy. It operates within Federcasse, the national federation of cooperative banks in Italy.
The mooring men cooperative
The Global Worker Cooperative Day, the main international event for worker and social cooperatives, will be held today (November 16, 2012) in Marseille, in the framework of the International Year of Cooperatives and of the Congress of the French Worker Cooperatives (Scop). The event, organized jointly by CICOPA and CG Scop, was preceded by a […]
Korean Students Learn from the BSC
In August 2012, Students from Korea University and Yeonsae University visited the Berkeley Student Cooperative as part of a two-week tour of American student cooperatives. Students at these schools in Seoul plan to form housing cooperatives to lower living costs, and visited the North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) headquarters, the BSC, the Santa Barbara […]
Berkeley Student Cooperative
The Berkeley Student Cooperative is a 501c3 nonprofit housing cooperative that provides affordable housing in room and board houses and apartments to students at UC Berkeley and other Bay Area colleges and universities. Presently the BSC has over 1300 student members living in or eating at twenty student housing cooperatives around the UC Berkeley campus. […]
A Source for Sustainable Teak
Tropical hardwoods have long been in the environmental spotlight as potentially unsustainable. In Asia, for example, the demand for teak can have serious environmental impacts and disastrous effects on local communities. Much of the worlds teak comes from Indonesia, where native forests are often clear-cut. But one cooperative in Southeast Sulawesi is now producing certified […]
Koperasi Hutan Jaya Lestari
A group of small-scale teak producers in Sulawesi who have received FSC certification for their wood. KHJL has the capacity to sell 540 m3/year FSC certified teak, and 1080 m3/year Jabon and Gemelina wood.
Take Two Credit Lines and Call Me in the Morning
Since 1985 Coopemedicos has prescribed financial services to the medical providers of Costa Rica. The credit unions critical care ensures that these practitioners can focus on patient health not financial stress. Coopemedicos offers its members a full pharmacy of treatments for a myriad of monetary ills. Savings accounts, credit, loans and mutual funds maintain a […]
Cooperativa de Ahorro, Crèdito y Servicios Mùltiples de los Mèdicos
Coopermedicos was formed on September 29th, 1984. In May 1985 it was registered with the Department of Social Organizations of the Ministry of Work and Social Security under resolution number 678. Its aim is to improve the economic, social and cultural conditions of its members. According to the cooperatives statute, membership is reserved exclusively for […]
The self-delivery model of the Windvogel in practice
The Windvogel is a cooperative association whose goal is the realisation and generation of renewable energy. The Windvogel contributes to this through the development of new wind turbines and the purchasing and operating of existing turbines and solar PV installations. Founded in 1991 the cooperation now has over 2000 members in the Netherlands. It has […]