Programme

Thursday, July 5

9.00

Reception of the participants

 

09.30

Round table on cooperative experiences in the field of social services

Moderator:
Odilio Martiñá Rodríguez, Director-general of Labor Relations of the Regional Government of Galicia

 

Participting:

• The social and labor integration

 L'Olivera, S.Coop., Cooperative of Social integration dedicated to agriculture (Catalonia).
• The provision of social services by common work:

 Integrated Social Services, S.Coop., Home help (Basque Country).
• Self-organized social services:
Cooperative de services a domicile du Cap Diamant (Quebéc – Canada).
(Cooperative of Home Services of Cap Diamant (Quebec - Canada).)
• The social services in the cooperative environment:

Cooperative of Val and Foundation Terra de Trasancos (Galicia).

11.30

Coffee Break

 

12.00

Round table on new cooperative formulas

Moderator:

Representative of the Galician Council of Cooperatives

 

Participating:
• The energy and the cooperative:

 Sound energy, consumer and users, renewable energies (Catalonia).

• The collaboration of public and private, the cooperative régies:
Coop. Nave-Consult (Portugal).
• Funding for the economic and personal development of women:

Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Detodas (Ecuador).

(Credit and Savings Cooperative Detodas  (Ecuador).
• The vision of mixed cooperative from the Mondragón Corporation:
Mondragón Corporación

16.30

Official Opening

Alberto Nunez Feijoo, President of the Regional Government of Galicia

16.45

Report:

The cooperatives in today´s world

Presents:

Beatriz Mato Otero, president of the Galician Council of Cooperatives and Minister of Labour and Welfare

 

Speaker:
• Felice Scalvine, Vice President of ACI-Europe and President of Cooperatives Europe
17.30 Coffee Break  
18.00 The intercooperation and the network collaboration, a future that is already here

Presents:

Representative of the Galician Council of Cooperatives

 

Speakers:
• Paulo Gouveia, Technical Director of Cogeca (General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Union).
• Edward Baamonde Noche, Director General of Agro-Alimentarias Cooperatives and former President of Cogeca

 

 

Friday, July 6

09.30

Round table on cooperative experiences in the organization of associated work

Moderator:
Miguel Angel Garcia Martin, Director General of Self-Employment, of the Social Economy y Social Responsibility of Companies, of the Ministry of Employment y Social Security..

 

Participating:
• Ecomensaxeria (ecological messaging), transportation and logistics for the social market:
La Veloz S. Coop. (Zaragoza).
• The recovery of the company by the textile workers:
18 de Diciembre S.Coop. (Argentina).
• Creative and innovative solutions in the industrial field:
Zero-pro, S. Coop. (Galicia).
• Interpreters and translators for solidarity:
Cum Verbis, S. Coop, (Belgium).

11.30

Coffee Break

 

12.00

Round table on cooperative experiences in rural areas

Moderator:
Jose Alvarez Robledo, Director General of Agricultural Production of the Regional  Government of Galicia

Participating:
• A commitment to the rural development of cooperative basis:
Intercoop (Autonomous Community Valencia).
• The integration of agriculture activities:
Agrial-florettes, garden products, salads (France).
• The future is achieved through innovation:
Feiraco (Galicia).

•Agrarian cooperativism the other side of the Atlantic:
Cooperative Iberoamerica.

16.00

Overview of the policies of cooperative promotion in the world.

Presenting:

Representative of the Galician Council of Cooperatives

 

Speakers:

• Manuel Mariscal, president CICOPA-ICA (International Organization of Cooperatives of

Industrial Production, Craft and Services, sectoral organization of the International Cooperative Alliance).
• Juan Antonio Pedreño Frutos, President of CEPES (Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy)

17.15

Coffee Break

 

17.45

Roundtable on strategies for cooperative development

Moderator:
Representative of CIRIEC

Participating:
• Network Eusumo for the promotion of cooperatives and social economy and the program  coopera +:
Regional Government of Galicia
• Cooperative for cooperative entrepreneurship:
Coompanion, (Sweden).
• Cooperative of support to the Social Economy

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Cooperatives are a reminder to the international community that it’s possible to pursue economic viability and social responsibility.".

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations