• Description: European Region of ICA
  • What is good: Promotion of cooperation as a business model, fostering communication
  • HQ Location and Country: Belgium
  • Operation locations: HQ Brussels, members throughout Europe

The European region of the International Cooperative Alliance, representing 84 member organisations from 33 European countries. Small staff based in Brussels representing cooperation as a business model within the EU

How it shows 

Just doing it; being in a cooperative is the epitome of believing in cooperation and just doing it

Characteristics

Wide Engagement; Cooperatives Europe represents 176,000 Cooperative enterprises, 4.7 million people employed and 141 million members