Trento International Research Colloquium on Cooperatives

On 30 and 31 May 2025 EURICSE, in collaboration with the International Cooperative Alliance Global Committee on Cooperative Research (ICA CCR), the EMES International Research Network, CIRIEC International and the University of Trento organised a Research Colloquium to celebrate 2025, the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. The Colloquium benefited from the financial support of the Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione, on the occasion of its 130th anniversary. The rationale of the Trento Colloquium, which involved 50 scholars from Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Africa, was threefold: to reflect on cooperatives’ capacity and limitations in tackling pressing challenges; to critically discuss new research avenues that could be explored over the next years; to present the differences and similarities of the participating networks and propose avenues of future collaboration.