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University
of Wisconsin, Center for Cooperatives
UWCC studies and and promotes cooperative action as a means of meeting the economic and social needs of people. The Center works in rural and urban settings in the United States and internationally. It develops, promotes, and coordinates educational programs, technical assistance and research on the cooperative form of business. The UWCC serves as facilitator for faculty and staff within the University System who have educational, research and extension activities involving cooperatives.
Missouri
Institute of Cooperatives
The Missouri Institute of Cooperatives (MIC) is an association of local and regional cooperatives organized to provide education on the cooperative form of business. Through youth programs, the quarterly newsletter, and the annual meeting, MIC fosters learning and discussion on cooperatives for the cooperative leaders of today and tomorrow.
Professor Michael Cook at the University of Missouri is one of the leading cooperative development professors. Click here for his most recent works and publications.
Cornell
University, Cooperative Enterprise Program
The Cooperative Enterprise
Program (CEP) operates within the Department of Applied Economics and
Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
University. The mission of the program is to enhance the performance of
existing cooperative businesses and facilitate the development of emerging
cooperative enterprise through teaching, research and outreach. The program
supports training and research for cooperative business enterprises, and
assists new, emerging cooperatives as well as groups of businesses forming
networks in rural communities.
http://cooperatives.aem.cornell.edu/
Center
for the Study of Cooperatives
The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives is an interdisciplinary teaching and research institute at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. The objectives of the Centre are: to develop and offer university courses that provide an understanding of co-operative theory, principles, development, structures, and legislation; to undertake original research into co-operatives; to publish co-operative research, both that of Centre staff and that of other researchers; and to maintain a resource centre of co-operative materials that supports the Centre's teaching and research functions.
The
University of Minnesota: Cooperative Learning Center
The center plays host to a continuing stream of visitors—students, scholars, colleagues, educators—from all around the U.S. as well as countries such as Australia, Russia, Singapore, New Guinea, Ireland, and Lebanon. The Johnsons also travel extensively to offer training in cooperative learning theory and application—throughout the U.S. and Canada, Germany, England, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Turkey, Panama, Singapore, and Hungary, among others.
They work with school teachers and administrators, the U.S. Navy, colleges and universities, and the Disney Corp. They’re also working with schools in Eastern Europe to promote cooperative learning as a way to help prepare coming generations for democracy and free enterprise.
Center
for Cooperatives University of California
The Center was established by the California State Legislature in 1987 to enhance the development of cooperatives through research, education, and outreach. From its location on the University of California Davis campus, the Center draws on the research strengths of the University and other public and private organizations to help people use cooperative models to meet business, economic, employment, consumer, and other needs. The Center's Policy Advisory Committee is composed of cooperative leaders as well as scholars representing the University of California and California State University systems.
The Co-operative College aims to provide adult and lifelong learning programmes that emphasise co-operative values and principles and be a centre of excellence in training, learning, consultancy and research for the co-operative and mutual sector in the UK and internationally.
The
Netherlands Institute for Cooperative Entrepreneurship (NICE)
The Netherlands Institute for Cooperative Entrepreneurship, or NICE, is a specialized research and training institute. The institute's domain is cooperatives, with roots in the food and agribusiness, but currently has interests in the non-food sector as well. The center's home market is the Netherlands, with a European focus. It offers a wide range of fundamental and applied research products, advisory services, training, educational programs. The NICE also hosts an annual International Summer School, seminars, workshops etc. Present areas of interest include organizational re-engineering, membership relations, governance structures, financial restructuring, marketing and product innovation, rural economy, market research and cooperatives in transition economies.
BC
Institute of Cooperative Studies
The British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies is a catalyst for research, learning, and teaching about co-operative thought and practice through the development of Co-operative Studies as an established field of inquiry. The Institute collaborates with other post-secondary institutions, the co-op sector, governments, individuals and communities interested in co-operative development.
Association
of Cooperative Educators (ACE)
ACE is a membership organization that brings together educators and cooperators across cooperative sectors as well as national boundaries. The resulting cross pollination of ideas enhances cooperative development, strengthens cooperatives, promotes professionalism, and improves public understanding. Most ACE members come from the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico with membership from the rest of the world growing.
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