ICACCR Activities
The ICACCR holds international and regional co-operative research conference addressing issues of current interest to the co-operative movement.
International Research Conferences
People before profit: the response of co-operatives to the global financial crisis and economic recession
2-4 September 2009, Oxford, United Kingdom
The conference will address the following questions:
- Declining trust – governance and regulation innovations: Are financial services co-operatives such as co-operative banks, building societies and credit unions weathering the crisis better than their investor-owned counterparts? If so, what lessons can they teach governments about good governance and bank regulation? Can they provide a viable alternative, or will they suffer from over-regulation as governments that do not understand the ‘co-operative difference’ tighten up on all banking institutions?
- Unemployment and social cohesion: With rising unemployment, what role can employee-owned and other co-operatives play in generating new jobs?
- Declining state services: as the state faces dramatically increasing budgetary demands, and is turning more to market solutions, how can co-operatives help fill the gap and be both distinctive and competitive?
- Support Needs: What is the role and potential of co-operative development agencies? How can federal bodies and consorzi strengthen the sector?
- Housing crisis: With rising home repossessions, can housing co-operatives provide a people-centred alternative? What kinds of government policies are needed to enable housing co-operative sectors to expand to meet the affordability gap? Are there specific models such as limited or shared equity co-ops that can combine individual home ownership with collective security?
- Local-global tensions - With a shrinking global economy, what is the role of co-operatives in sustaining local economies? Are there models that can be replicated, such as consumer/farmer partnerships in local food strategies, or shared service co-ops for local businesses?
- North-South issues - With falling demand for products from developing countries, what is the role of consumer co-operatives in increasing fair trade? What can we learn from existing north/south partnerships, and can these be replicated?
Call for papers (pdf)
- Conference Programme (pdf)
The Role of Co-operatives in Sustaining Development and Fostering
Social Development
15-18 October 2008, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy
The conference will mainly focus on four themes:
- Recent contributions of human sciences in understanding and explaining
co-operatives.
- The role of co-operatives in developing and transforming countries.
- Co-operative
and social enterprise concern for the community: the emergence of
new fields of activity.
- Co-operative social responsibility and social accounting.
Call for papers - Preliminary Programme (pdf) - More
information: www.issan.info/ica-index.shtml
Co-operatives and Innovation: Influencing the Social Economy
28 May - 1 June 2007m Saskatoon, Canada
From 28 May to 1 June 2007, three organisations came together for the first time in a joint conference. The ICA Committee on Co-operative Research (ICACCR), the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC), and the Association for Cooperative Educators (ACE) will together host a joint conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This event combined the approaches and audiences of the respective organisations and was held in conjunction with the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
.
 
Co-operative and social economy researchers, educators, and practitioners from across Canada and around the globe participated in the meetings. In conjunction with the larger gathering of the Congress, their attendance made this conference a significant international event.
The Centre
for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, hosted and organised this joint event.
Past international research conferences
- 2006: "The Co-operative Response to Civil Society's New Expectations",
19-22 October , Paris (France)
- 2005 - "The Contribution of Co-operatives to
Community Culture",
11- 14 August, Cork (Ireland)
- 2004 - "The Future Of Co-operatives in a
Growing Europe", 6-9 May, Valencia,
Segorbe (Spain)
- 2003 - "Defining
Co-operative Studies in the New Millennium", 28-31 May, University
of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
- 2002 - "Local Society and Global
Economy: The Role of Co-operatives",- 9-12 May,
Naousa, Thessaloniki (Greece)
- 2001 - "Civil Society, Co-operation
and Rejuvenation", October 11-13, Seoul (Korea)
- 2000 - "The Co-operative Impulse: Past, Present and
Future", August 11-14, Oslo
(Norway)
- 1999 - "Values and Enterprise for Co-operative
Advantage" Québec
City (Canada)
- 1998 - "Women Entrepreneurship and Co-operatives", Paris
(France)
- 1998 - "Conference on Values and Adding Value in a Global Context",
Cork (Ireland)
- 1997 - "The Co-operative Advantage in a Civil Economy",
Bologna (Italy)
Regional research conferences
- 2006 -
ICA Asia-Pacific Co-operative Research Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka -
15-16 August 2006, The two themes for conference are: Natural disaster preparedness and rehabilitation in community through co-operative initiatives;The role of co-operative leadership in preservation of co-operative identity
- 2006 -
ICA Latin American Research Conference - El Cooperativismo Latinoamericano: ¿Visión
integrada de lo económico y lo social? Rosario, Argentina.
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14-15 September 2006
- 2006 -
ICA Co-operative Research Conference, Paris, France -
19-22 October 2006, This is the regular biennial ICA European Co-operative research conference.
- 2003 - ICA 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Co-operative Research Forum, Cebu (Philippines) - 18-19 February
- 2001 - Latin American Regional Co-operative Research Conference: "El cooperativismo Latinoamericano: comportamientos innovadores o inercia organizacional?" Buenos Aires (Argentina) - September 10-11
- 2001 - European Research Conference: "Co-operatives and Social Enterprises", Gävle (Sweden), 7-9 June
- 2000 - 1st Asian Co-operative Research Conference, Singapore - 24 - 25 June
- 2000 - Latin American Research Conference, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - December 4
- 1999 - European Research Conference: "Continuity, Transition and Renewal: New Trends in European Co-operation", Weimar (Germany)
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