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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…

Funding boost for Co-op College’s education feedback tool

The tool enables young people with learning difficulties, disabilities and autism to feed back on learning…

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

A new future: What next for the Co-operative College?

We speak with Nina Valvi, new head of business development, about the College’s past and future…

A chequered past: What has happened to the Co-op College?

A look back at the story of the College, leading up to its recent reorganisation

‘The most insightful co-op researcher of our day’: Ed Mayo remembers Johnston Birchall

The former secretary general of Co-operatives UK remembers one of the movement's leading thinkers

Green campaigner Chris Packham heads line-up for UK Co-op Congress

The event, free to all co-op members, will look at how the movement can help the…

Obituary: Johnston Birchall, a scholar and champion for the co-op movement

The Stirling University professor spent 30 years studying the movement, including an important report on co-op…

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'