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Platform co-op plans revolution for online tutoring and teaching

MyCoolClass, an international teacher-owned platform co-op, is set for launch this month

The Co-op Wars: Documenting the fall and rise of Minnesota’s flower power co-ops

New film looks at the ideological battles that tore through the grocery co-op movement in 1970s…

Forest co-ops take root to roll back the deserts

The co-ops planting trees for a healthier relationship with the land

Romanian renewable energy co-op to start distribution this month

The acquisition was funded by investment from the co-operative’s members and a loan from Som Energia…

Syrian agricultural co-ops receive 460,000 polypropylene sacks

Around 2,030 farmers will receive the sacks via their co-operatives

Russian authorities seize Japanese boat belonging to fishery co-op

The fishery co-operative says the boat was operating in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, a claim disputed…

Funding boost for Co-op College’s education feedback tool

The tool enables young people with learning difficulties, disabilities and autism to feed back on learning…

Activist Ela Bhatt to address the World Cooperative Congress in Seoul

The UN's Olivier De Schutter, Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal from Mondragon and Basque politician Idoia Mendia will…

Canadian co-operatives eligible for Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund

Two credit unions are also partnering with the government to provide microloans to businesses and entrepreneurs

A new future: What next for the Co-operative College?

We speak with Nina Valvi, new head of business development, about the College’s past and future…

A chequered past: What has happened to the Co-op College?

A look back at the story of the College, leading up to its recent reorganisation

‘The most insightful co-op researcher of our day’: Ed Mayo remembers Johnston Birchall

The former secretary general of Co-operatives UK remembers one of the movement's leading thinkers