INFORCOOP

INFORCOOP is the Training Institute of Legacoop, Lega Nazionale delle Cooperative e Mutue the important Italian Association of co-operatives and mutual aid associations. Inforcoop was established in 1982 as a second level (not for profit) co-operative that associates about 20 regional training agencies, social co-operatives, a number of research and consultancy companies specially focused on Social Economy, as well as co-operatives and other enterprises, all of which adhere to the Legacoop system.

Website: www.inforcoop.it

LEGACOOP SERVIZI

Legacoop Servizi associated more than 2,500 cooperatives that offer a very wide range of services and benefits, from transport and handling catering, cleaning services from health and sanitation, transport people to the cultural heritage. This is business-intensive work, which also showed a significant development in terms of employment.

Website: www.legacoopservizi.coop

APSHSTDC

APSHSTDC is a Non Governmental association for international development and cooperation, recognized as a public interest entity, by the Portuguese Foreign Office. The aim of the association is to Cooperate, conceptualize, execute and support social, cultural, environmental, civic and economic programs to education towards development.

Website: www.apshstdc.com

COCETA

COCETA is the Spanish Organization which represents the 18.960 workers cooperatives existing in Spain. COCETA has at its disposal 16 regional structures with highly qualified technical staff, specialized in Cooperativism in different areas of action and an infrastructure which makes these regional confederate organisations operative and also effective in their field of activity. Likewise, it participates as a social agent in the drawing up of the regulations which affect cooperative companies and, through the confederate sector of AWC of social initiative, participates in projects aimed at social integration and local and regional development.

Website: www.coceta.coop

OLTREMODO

Oltremodo is a company very active in communication, video production and web. Recently created by the union of two Italian co-operatives (Pixel Doctor specializing in multimedia and video and Co.la.ser, with an extensive experience in the services sector.

ESFERA

ESFERA is composed by several associations from Social Economy at national level. Regions such as Madrid, Castilla y León, Andalucía and Murcia take part in the Federation. Its aims are the promotion of opportunities equality between men and women, the promotion of participation of women in politics, economic, cultural and social areas, fostering the entrepreneurial spirit, the labour and personal conciliation in companies and promoting the Social Economy.

ANJAF

The ANJAF main objective is to carry out activities contributing to socio-professional integration and socio-cultural development of all exposed groups, namely those in a situation of exclusion, in order to promote social harmony. The target population of ANJAF activities is composed by the "exposed groups" or groups in a situation of exclusion such as the long term unemployed, young people looking for their first jobs, the ethnic and cultural minorities, people below the poverty line, one-parent families and women with social integration problems.

Website: www.anjaf.pt

FON.COOP

Fon.Coop is the National Interprofessional Paritetic Found for Continuing Education of the Cooperatives founded in 2002 by the major organizations representing the Italian cooperatives:Legacoop, AGCI and Confcooperative and Italian trade unions CGIL, CISL, UIL.

Website: www.foncoop.coop