[P2P-F] Fwd: 🔴 NEW STUDY: Global Study on Youth Cooperative Entrepreneurship

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Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:15 PM
Subject: 🔴 NEW STUDY: Global Study on Youth Cooperative Entrepreneurship
To: michel at p2pfoundation.net

In a changing world of work, cooperatives provide security and meaningful
jobs to young people, new study shows
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In a changing world of work, cooperatives provide security and meaningful
jobs to young people, new study shows

<https://cicopa.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a463471cd0a9c6cf744bf5f8&id=4da3fbbfb4&e=234969592f>Brussels,
6 June 2018 –* CICOPA*, the international organisation of industrial and
service cooperatives, has published today a new “*Global Study on Youth
Cooperative Entrepreneurship*
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as part of its campaign “*We own it! The future of work is ours
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The study is based on desk research and on an online survey involving 64
youth cooperatives in the five continents, and shows how – in a world of
work deeply reshaped by demographic changes, globalization, technological
innovations and youth unemployment – *cooperatives can be a concrete tool
in the hands of young people for improving their work and entrepreneurship
conditions.*

The study reveals a quite fresh and dynamic picture of youth cooperatives
who took part in the survey. They are primarily active in the service
sector, and are highly involved in activities requiring a certain degree of
training, specialized knowledge and skills (e.g. telecommunications and
information technologies, programming, legal and accounting activities,
management, consultancy, research, marketing…). In most cases, they are
micro or small-sized enterprises and have reported a positive economic
performance and increasing or stable trends in job creation in recent
years. They reveal gender equity in management positions and are extremely
keen to implement new organizational methods in their business practices
(e.g. workplace organisation and governance practices).

Their cooperative choice is justified by a mix of value-based and pragmatic
motivations: *meaningful work (to “work differently”), experience and
values-related aspirations, but also concrete need for stable jobs, career
opportunities and protection*. This picture, albeit partial, strongly
suggests that youth cooperatives are riding the wave of changes and
represent a valuable and secure option for young entrepreneurs.

The global study also shows how cooperatives can play a crucial role in
responding to new challenges introduced by recent work and economic
transformations affecting new generations. For example*, they can “inject”
democracy and participation inside the digital economy, by giving ownership
and control of power to the people who use and work through on-line
platforms*. Through their participatory governance, they are a laboratory
in the hands of young people for the experimentation of innovative and
sustainable forms of work management.

However, concludes the study, cooperatives cannot be considered a panacea.
Besides the important and increasing involvement coming from the
cooperative movement to answer to youth needs, *cooperatives are only able
to display their full potential if a favorable institutional environment
surrounds them*. This is particularly true when it comes to providing
quality employment and entrepreneurship, which is highly dependent on the
institutional frameworks regulating cooperatives, the legal status of young
workers and worker-members, but also access to financial resources and
user-friendly bureaucracy.
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CONTACT:
For further information, please contact:
Reza Opdebeeck: communication at cicopa.coop

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CICOPA is the international organisation of industrial and service
cooperatives and represents 65.000 worker, social and producers’
cooperatives providing 4 million jobs across the world. CICOPA currently
has members in 32 countries and 2 regional organisations: CECOP – CICOPA
Europe and CICOPA Americas.
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