Echoing the action plan "Entrepreneurship 2020" of the European Union, the project LEARN MORE ABOUT WORKER CO-OP (L-M-A-W Co-op) aims at arousing 15 to 20 year young people and their teachers’ curiostity on cooperative entrepreneurship, based on the involvement of employees, equitable sharing of power and earnings, and participative management. The project brings together five partners from four countries (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy) : two partners representing the co-operative economy, two partners representing education and training, and a cooperative media : - the National Federation of Scop– worker co-operative company - (France), leader, mainly coordinates and leads the network of the 2 300 SCOP and SCIC in France (46,000 employees) - €4 billion in sales). It works in strong partnership with 13 regional unions; - Cecop (Belgium) is the European Federation of worker co-ops. It has members in 15 European countries. The 26 members of Cecop affiliate over 50,000 companies employing 1.5 million workers and generating a consolidated turnover of 50 billion euros; - the Escuela de economía social (Spain), Andalusian School of Social Economy, meets the training needs, research and development programs to improve the performance of the social economy sector in Andalusia; - IRECOOP Training Centre of Cooperatives of Emilia Romagna (Italy), established to meet the training needs of regional cooperative enterprises; - the Scop Alternatives Economiques (France) publishes the Frenche monthly magazine Alternatives Economiques, that deals with economic and social issues. It publishes 90,000 copies per monthand has nearly 70,000 subscribers, most of them being high school and university students, and teachers of economic and social sectors. The project, implemented thanks to the competencies of the partners and suppliers, and with the participation of the final users, will take several forms: - a 4 or 5 web series episodes through which young European co testify to their practices and common issues : a comparative perspective on worker co-operatives in Europe. - a website with additional content on principles, origins, current and development of worker co-operatives. - educational modules adapted to the needs and methods of teachers to educate and raise awareness of young people in this business model. - several dissemination events and communication actions. The project will reach a very large audience of more than 6.5 million people in several countries of the EU. The tools created will be widely disseminated through the regional, national and european networks of each partner, and to the audience of the French magazine Alternatives Economiques. Planned over a period of 24 months (09.01.2015 to 09.01.2017), the project aims to create the first European reference site for teachers, pupils and students wishing to discover the worker cooperatives.
Echoing the European Union's "Entrepreneurship 2020" action plan and the will of new generations to undertake with meaning, the #COOPLAB project aims to make 15-20-year-olds and their teachers aware of the problem. cooperative entrepreneurship, based on employee participation, co-operative work and equitable sharing of power, decisions and results. The #COOPLAB project brings together five partners from four countries (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy), including two partners representing companies in the cooperative economy, two partners from the world of education and training, and a publisher partner of a student cooperative magazine: - The main mission of the General Confederation of Scop (France) is to represent and support the 3,000 Scop and Scic in France (54,000 employees - € 4.6 billion turnover). It works in a network with 12 regional unions; - Cecop (Belgium) is the European Confederation of Workers' Cooperatives (the equivalent of CG Scop at European level). It brings together nearly 50,000 companies (15 European countries) employing 1.5 million workers; - the Fundacion Escuela de Economía Social (Spain), an Andalusian School of Social Economy, responds to the education and training needs of its members by developing innovative programs to improve the performance of the social economy sector in Andalusia; - Irecoop, a cooperative training center in Emilia-Romagna (Italy), meets the education and training needs of regional cooperative enterprises and young pupils and students; - Scop Alternatives Economiques (France) publishes the eponymous monthly Alternative Economiques, a French magazine on economic and social news. The magazine, published with 90,000 copies, has nearly 70,000 subscribers, mainly high school students, students and teachers in the economic and social sectors. The project, implemented thanks to the complementary skills of partners and service providers and with the involvement of end-users, resulted in the production of the following tools: - a website intended to be a platform of European educational resources for young people and their teachers interested in the business model and working in a cooperative. The #COOPLAB site is designed to propose the resources produced within the framework of the project, but also thanks to a resource center to promote and promote the resources produced by others and which are part of the objective of the project. The site also allows those who create projects, especially with educational resources to enhance and put it online on the site #COOPLAB. The site also presents the essentials on work cooperatives and social cooperatives (definitions, principles, key figures, organization, etc.) and links to the project's partner sites. - three videos of testimonials from young European co-workers who compare their comparative experience through 3 themes: 1) why we undertake and why we work in cooperative 2) another relationship to work and 3) cooperative, a socially responsible company - an educational kit of 45 documents and produced in 4 languages for teachers (total of 180 documents). Appointed Start to Coop, the pedagogical kit proposes to young people to test in class or in formation the creation of a cooperative project and this in 5 steps: 1) to find the idea, 2) to define the strategy 3) to define an organization and a functioning 4) follow the implementation and 5) the balance of the 4 previous steps. - a quiz in the form of a serious game to test while having fun with his knowledge and this in connection with each of the 5 stages of Start to Coop. - Throughout the project and especially in recent months, the tools produced were presented, tested and used first by teachers, then directly in class with young people. #COOPLAB was also presented to the actors of the European Cooperative Movement and their members. The kit was the subject of a communication through the usual channels: press relations, social networks, articles, massive awareness campaign among teachers ... Note the particular contribution of the partner Alternatives Economiques which, as economic magazine very close to high schools and youth, published an article for the launch of #COOPLAB and sent an e-mailing to all teachers of economics and management in France. Scheduled over a period of 24 months (1/09/2015 to 1/09/2017), the project finally lasted 29 months. It has achieved its goal of creating the first European reference site for teachers, students and students who want to discover cooperatives of associated workers.