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CECOP is the European confederation of industrial and service cooperatives.

It is also the European region of CICOPA, the international organisation of industrial and service cooperatives. Most of the enterprises of the CECOP network are SMEs, while some are large enterprises. We also find several strong horizontal cooperative groups: in Italy, we can mention CCC-ACAM in the construction sector, CNS in the service sector, and CGM among social cooperatives; another example is the well-known Mondragon group in the Basque country (intersectoral but mainly made up of industrial cooperatives), the 7th Spanish entrepreneurial group employing over 100 000 workers. Most of these enterprises are worker cooperatives and are characterised by the fact that the majority of their staff are members-owners. Around 9,000 of them (employing 270,000 workers) are specialised in the provision of social services or in the reintegration, through work, of disadvantaged and marginalised workers (disabled, long-term unemployed, ex-prisoners, addicts etc), and are generally called social cooperatives. A further 1,000 are second degree cooperatives for small enterprises (truck drivers, taxi drivers, mechanics, masons, etc), and are often called artisans’ cooperatives.

08/10/2026

📅 All is set for the CECOP & FEBEA - European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers' event next week!

13 October 2026 | 🕒 18:30–20:00 CEST
📍 European Parliament, Brussels

As the European Union prepares the next for 2028-2034, CECOP and FEBEA's event will explore how has supported the growth and impact of the social economy under the current EU budget, and discuss how its successor under the European Competitiveness Fund can better respond to the needs of cooperatives and social economy enterprises in scaling their economic and social impact across Europe.

*Kindly note that the event's room has changed to 1G1.

🔗 More info about the event https://cecop.coop/works/register-now-cecop-febea-joint-event-on-the-future-european-competitiveness-fund

05/10/2026

What should quality jobs look like in a changing world of work?

CECOP has contributed to the European Commission’s call for evidence on the Quality Jobs Act, highlighting how cooperatives can help build jobs that are resilient, inclusive and future-proof.

From AI and algorithmic management to the green transition and new forms of work, the world of work is changing rapidly. Cooperatives offer practical solutions rooted in democratic governance, worker empowerment and human-centred management.

Our contribution highlights six key recommendations:

🔹 Put human control at the heart of algorithmic management

🔹 Mainstream worker ownership throughout the Quality Jobs Act

🔹 Support cooperatives in expanding training and fair job transitions

🔹 Promote worker buyouts as a tool for just transitions

🔹 Support cooperatives created by autonomous workers

🔹 Ensure coherence with other EU initiatives

🔗 Access the full response https://cecop.coop/works/cecops-contribution-to-the-european-commissions-call-for-evidence-on-the-quality-jobs-act

Have a look at CECOP report on Quality Jobs https://cecop.coop/works/new-cecop-report-quality-jobs-the-cooperative-way

01/10/2026

Last chance to register for our joint conference with FEBEA - European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers “Can the new be a catalyst for the social economy? The multiplier effect of ”

🗓 13 October 2026 | 🕒 18:30–20:00 CEST
📍 European Parliament, Brussels

The event will explore how InvestEU has supported the growth and impact of the social economy under the current EU budget, and discuss how its successor under the European Competitiveness Fund can better respond to the needs of cooperatives and social economy enterprises in scaling their economic and social impact across Europe.

The programme will be as follows:

18:30–18:35 | Welcome Words
• Francesca Montalti, Vice-President of CECOP

18:35–18:45 | The role of InvestEU in the next MFF
• MEP Benedetta Scuderi, Greens/EFA in the European Parliament

18:45–18:55 | The role of the EIF in supporting the social economy through InvestEU
• Georgiana Buturoiu, Head of Division, Microfinance, Alternative Lenders and Fintech Division, European Investment Fund (EIF)

18:55–19:25 | InvestEU in practice – testimonies from the ground
• Aurélien HIRAUX, Director of Investment, SOCODEN, Les Scop et les Scic(France)
• KARIM SABNI EL GARRAF, President, Coop57 (Spain)
• Alessandro Viola, Development and Assessment Director, CFI Cooperazione Finanza Impresa (Italy)

19:25–19:45 | Reaction from MEPs

19:45–19:50 | Closing remarks
• Daniel Sorrosal, FEBEA - European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers' Secretary General.

⌛ Deadline to register: tomorrow, Friday 2nd October

Register now: https://lnkd.in/eRSNhgDq

More about the event: https://lnkd.in/gpck8mp3

28/09/2026

Check out the programme of CECOP and FEBEA - European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers Conference “Can the new MFF be a catalyst for the social economy? The multiplier effect of InvestEU”

🗓 13 October 2026 | 18:30–20:00 CEST

📍 European Parliament, Brussels

How can every euro invested in the social economy generate a greater multiplier effect for Europe?

As the European Union prepares the next Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028-2034, the Conference will explore how has supported the growth and impact of the social economy under the current EU budget, and discuss how its successor under the European Competitiveness Fund can better respond to the needs of cooperatives and social economy enterprises in scaling their economic and social impact across Europe.

PROGRAMME

18:30–18:35 | Welcome Words

• Francesca Montalti, Vice-President of CECOP

18:35–18:45 | The role of InvestEU in the next MFF

• MEP Benedetta Scuderi, Greens/EFA in the European Parliament

18:45–18:55 | The role of the EIF in supporting the social economy through InvestEU

• Georgiana Buturoiu, Head of Division, Microfinance, Alternative Lenders and Fintech Division, European Investment Fund (EIF)

18:55–19:25 | InvestEU in practice – testimonies from the ground

• Aurélien HIRAUX, Director of Investment, SOCODEN, Les Scop et les Scic (France)

• KARIM SABNI EL GARRAF, President, Coop57 (Spain)

• Alessandro Viola, Development and Assessment Director, CFI Cooperazione Finanza Impresa (Italy)

19:25–19:45 | Reaction from MEPs

19:45–19:50 | Closing remarks

• Andrea Baranes, Vice-President of FEBEA

Deadline to register: Friday, 2nd October

Register now ➡️ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgVv4_6rk5b1gG-TM2-Uo-45zdXO8oFlNWvsWXrO0HqIG9ww/viewform

More about the event: https://cecop.coop/works/register-now-cecop-febea-joint-event-on-the-future-european-competitiveness-fund

23/09/2026

What does “Made in EU” mean for cooperatives? Long-term resilience

Cooperatives are less sensitive to external shocks and more resilient to crises than conventional enterprises thanks to their democratic governance, local embeddedness, asset-lock mechanisms and mutualistic instruments. Through cooperation among cooperatives, mutual support schemes and solidarity funds, they can pool resources, share risks and support one another in difficult times. At the same time, cooperative long-term goals ensure continuity across generations.

Here are two examples, among others, of cooperative mutualistic financial instruments helping cooperatives build long-term resilience:

🔹 In Italy, the institutional investor CFI Cooperazione Finanza Impresa – has been providing since 1986 long-term investments through tailored and flexible instruments to worker and social cooperatives, particularly in the context of workers buyouts, with the aim of promoting their business development.

🔹 In France, SOCODEN, the cooperative development and mutual aid fund established in 1965, offers financial instruments including quasi-equity loans that support the creation, development and reinforcement of worker and social cooperatives.

Read more about CFI https://www.cfi.it/index.php and SOCODEN https://www.financer-les-scop.coop/

Stay with us to dive deeper into how cooperatives add value to the ‘Made in the EU’ concept!

➡️ Find out more in our position paper, accessible here https://cecop.coop/works/cooperatives-ensure-value-created-in-europe-stays-in-europe-we-call-for-stronger-value-retention-in-eu-industrial-policy

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17/09/2026

– 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐖𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

📢 Yesterday President von der Leyen gave her 2026 State of the European Union address.

As the EU continues to navigate through geopolitical shifts, the escalating effects of climate change, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence, CECOP is urging the Commission to address their consequences by investing in resilience, skills, quality jobs, innovation and social cohesion.

Industrial and service cooperatives demonstrate that by putting people before profit, inequalities can be lessened and via democratic participation in the workplace, meaningful, inclusive and quality jobs can be created. The Commission must recognise that protecting Social Europe and increasing competitiveness are not a contradiction.

By ensuring that the value created is retained in the local territory or by fighting deindustrialisation, by introducing ethical advanced technologies or by providing community-rooted services, cooperatives are providing time-tested, tangible solutions, and with their help, the EU can advance towards “the age of wisdom” instead of “the age of foolishness”.

Read our full reaction: https://cecop.coop/works/soteu-2026-to-meet-great-expectations-we-must-move-beyond-vague-intentions

16/09/2026

For cooperatives, ‘Made in EU’ means... human-centric innovation

Whether in traditional industrial sectors or emerging digital and tech sectors, cooperatives innovate to meet the real needs of people and communities. Their democratic governance and collective ownership models ensure that innovation is driven by long-term social, environmental and economic value rather than short-term profit. In this sense, cooperatives are pioneers of human-centred innovation, combining technological progress with trust and accountability. By keeping control over strategic assets and technologies in the hands of citizens, workers and local communities, they can help safeguard EU technological sovereignty.

How does this work in practice? The Spanish platform cooperative Givit was founded in 2019 in Granada by a group of delivery workers facing precarious conditions. Today, this fully self-financed cooperative is present in 17 Spanish cities and counts around 1,200 worker members. With the support of another worker cooperative, GestCoop, they developed algorithmic practices which allow them to stay in control of their work.

Learn more about this and other success stories in CECOP’s report on how cooperatives approach algorithmic management: https://cecop.coop/works/whos-the-boss-how-cooperatives-fit-into-algorithmic-management-discussion

Stay tuned! Our efforts to make the cooperative voice count are not over!

➡️ Read our position paper here https://cecop.coop/works/cooperatives-ensure-value-created-in-europe-stays-in-europe-we-call-for-stronger-value-retention-in-eu-industrial-policy

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15/09/2026

Social and environmental NGOs, trade unions, social economy organisations and progressive businesses in the Alliance for Sustainable Development in Public Procurement (ASDPP) welcome important steps forward in the European Commission's proposal for a Public Procurement Regulation, such as improvement in the Best Price-Quality Ratio and quality criteria.

While these are important steps forward, we urge the co-legislators to:
💠Ensure that the new rules strengthen access for social economy organisations,
💠Strengthen social and environmental criteria,
💠Give greater weight to quality, social and environmental considerations.

🔗 Read the ASDPP’s joint statement here: https://cecop.coop/works/the-alliance-for-sustainable-development-in-public-procurement-asdpp-welcomes-the-proposal-for-a-public-procurement-act

11/09/2026

FULL REACTION NOW PUBLISHED BELOW!

𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭
⏩ 𝐓𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞

The proposed Regulation is an opportunity to develop the rules in a strategic, socially and environmentally conscious way, ensuring that the money is well spent.

It is particularly positive that to move away from price-only awarding, the proposal introduces the Best Price-Quality Ratio (BPQR) as the default criteria.

We welcome:
✅ The inclusion of the promotion of the social economy under the social criteria
✅ The introduction of European Preference
✅ That reserving contracts for enterprises focused on the work integration of people with disabilities and disadvantaged persons is maintained
✅ The removal of the limitations for reserved contracts for certain services
✅ Enhanced access for SMEs through updated rules on division into lots, consortia, and modification of contracts

At the same time, we call for:
🔷 The quality criteria to be strictly enforced and more clearly defined, otherwise their mandatory nature remains weak and limited
🔷 A European Preference that goes beyond where production takes place and also rewards economic operators that retain ownership, profits and decision-making power within the EU
🔷 User-friendly and accessible eProcurement platforms and Public Procurement Data Spaces
🔷 Awareness-raising initiatives accompanying the revision to increase contracting authorities’ knowledge of cooperatives and the wider social economy and thus enhance the uptake of socially responsible and green public procurement

We call further improvements during the European Parliament and Council negotiations to strengthen several provisions to ensure that public procurement fully supports the Union’s social, environmental and industrial objectives.

Read our full reaction ➡️ https://cecop.coop/works/public-procurement-act-to-achieve-strategic-social-and-environmental-objectives-they-must-be-placed-front-and-centre

09/09/2026

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁
➡️ 𝗧𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲

The proposed Regulation is an opportunity to develop the rules in a strategic, socially and environmentally conscious way, ensuring that the money is well spent.

It is particularly positive that, to move away from price-only awarding, the proposal introduces the Best Price-Quality Ratio (BPQR) as the default criteria.

We welcome:
🔹 The inclusion of the promotion of the social economy under the social criteria
🔹 The introduction of European Preference
🔹 That reserving contracts for enterprises focused on the work integration of people with disabilities and disadvantaged persons is maintained
🔹 The removal of the limitations for reserved contracts for certain services

At the same time, we call for:
🔸 The quality criteria to be strictly enforced and more clearly defined, otherwise their mandatory nature remains weak and limited
🔸 A European Preference that goes beyond where production takes place and also rewards economic operators that retain ownership, profits and decision-making power within the EU

We call further improvements during the European Parliament and Council negotiations to strengthen several provisions to ensure that public procurement fully supports the Union’s social, environmental and industrial objectives.

Our full reaction will be available shortly.

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Lundi	09:00 - 18:00
Mardi	09:00 - 18:00
Mercredi	09:00 - 18:00
Jeudi	09:00 - 18:00
Vendredi	09:00 - 18:00

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