Interested in international development? This year, #CoopConference17, welcomes the participation of the #coops4dev team, which will host sessions on co-operative development, launch new publications, and will be available at the Alliance's stand to answer your questions and take your picture. Curious?
Explore
Discover the new face of the Coops for 2030 website and see the co-operatives who have pledged to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the Alliance stand on level 15.
Come have your picture taken and pledge your co-operative to the SDGs in our photo booth.
Find the #coops4dev publications and discover Cooperatives Europe Development Platform's best practices on international co-operative development.
Visit our photo exhibition on level 12 and see the faces that are forging ahead the co-operative path to development.
Experiment
Join the ICA Asia Pacific workshop on 13 November, and see what role students can play in the implementation of the SDGs.
Learn
How can co-operatives expand their networks outside the co-operative sphere to further contribute to sustainable development? Learn everything about the importance of partnerships with local authorities, EU representatives, and civil society actors for international co-operative development in the #coops4dev session on 15 November. See the full program here.
Network
On 14 November the #coops4dev team will host the first meeting of the International Cooperative Development Platform. Cooperative organisations active in international development, including the CEDP and the OCDC, will further discuss how to reach stronger coordination and collaboration and develop a plan of action to pursue an exchange of expertise and create international visibility, as well as to get a stronger voice vis-à-vis political institutions will be developed (by invitation only).
The #coops4dev ICA-EU partnership aims to bring the co-operative model to the next level within international development policies and programs. It is built around activities of growing visibility, enhancing advocacy, sharing capacity building, strengthening co-operative development networking and supporting it all with evidence from exhaustive research.
