From July 8 to 11, 2025, the Institut international des…
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
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