Co-operatives and the World of Work: CCR/ILO 2015 International Research Conference, Antalya, Turkey - Photos

09 Nov 2015

8 November: Young Scholars Programme

Sonja Novkovic, Chair of the Committee on Co-operative Research (at podium, with Virginie Pérotin at left), opens the conference.

Virginie Pérotin, Professor of Economics at Leeds University Business School (UK), on worker co-operatives in economics

Bruno Roelants, Secretary General of CECOP/CICOPA Europe, on co-op research and practice

Morris Altman. co-operative economist and Dean of the Newcastle Business School (Australia), on co-operatives and behavioural economics

Claudia Sanchez Bajo, an international co-operative scholar and former Chair in Co-operative Economics at the University of Winnipeg (Canada), on co-operatives and labour

Participants in the Young Scholars Program discuss co-operative research

9-10 November

Sonja Novkovic (left) and Simel Esim open the conference

Opening session: Left to right: Numan Özcan,  Jürgen Schwettmann, Sonja Novkovic, Simel Esim

Conference participants at the opening session

Keynote speaker Jürgen Schwettmann

Session on co-operatives and innovation: (left to right): Fiona Duguid, Marcelo Vieta, Derya Tarhan, Sengul Akcar

Another session on co-operatives and innovation: left to right: Regina Galhardi, Fatih Polattimur, Lenore Matthew, Derya Tarhan

Session on labour law and co-operative law, with (l to r): Maria Pilar Alguacil Mari, Gemma Fajardo Garcia, Hagen Henry and Claudia Sanchez Bajo

Camila Piñeiro Harnecker talks about co-ops in Cuba...via Skype

Jessica Gordon Nembhard leads a session on co-ops and social integration: lots of interest in prison co-ops

Uttam Kumar Saikia, Abed Yasin and Isobel Findlay on assessing the impact of co-operatives

Bruno Roelants

Japan was well represented at the conference

Larry Haiven

Gisaro Ya-Bititi

Closing session: Rapporteurs summarize the various thematic clusters