Dutch healthcare co-op launches online marketplace platform

Platform users can access meeting rooms, tools, stock, furniture, equipment and staff, depending on their needs…

Ukrainian parliament discusses new credit union law

The law would allow credit unions in the country to expand their range of financial services

Irish credit union assesses social return on investment

A study found that for every euro equivalent invested into Donore CU, €10 of social value…

Platform co-op plans revolution for online tutoring and teaching

MyCoolClass, an international teacher-owned platform co-op, is set for launch this month

Romanian renewable energy co-op to start distribution this month

The acquisition was funded by investment from the co-operative’s members and a loan from Som Energia…

Syrian agricultural co-ops receive 460,000 polypropylene sacks

Around 2,030 farmers will receive the sacks via their co-operatives

Russian authorities seize Japanese boat belonging to fishery co-op

The fishery co-operative says the boat was operating in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, a claim disputed…

Activist Ela Bhatt to address the World Cooperative Congress in Seoul

The UN's Olivier De Schutter, Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal from Mondragon and Basque politician Idoia Mendia will…

Canadian co-operatives eligible for Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund

Two credit unions are also partnering with the government to provide microloans to businesses and entrepreneurs

The London Learning Cooperative: When Karl Marx meets the platform business model

'Our project aims to empower workers, so a workers’ co-operative was the logical choice'

The New Internationalist: five decades of social and environmental journalism

Co-editor Amy Hall talked about the magazine's plans for the future as it approaches its 50th…

OCDC research highlights the co-operative difference in four countries

The report looks at co-ops in Kenya, Peru, Philippines and Poland