Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p CICOPA (International Organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers' Co-operatives) is the branch of the International Co-operative Alliance that promotes worker cooperatives. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, CICOPA has a membership of 46 national and regional cooperative federations in 31 countries. Its associated members are support organizations promoting cooperatives in their regions.Many of those cooperatives are worker cooperatives, businesses where the employees are the owners of the enterprise. In 2003, the then CICOPA president Rainer Schluter reported that in Europe they have seen a leap from 2,500 worker co-ops and related models in 1980, to 85,000 today, with a total membership of 1.5 million worker-ownersThe 2003 CICOPA General Assembly held in Oslo approved in principle the World Declaration on Cooperative Worker Ownership. The Final draft was approved by the CICOPA Executive Committee on 17 February 2004. The Declaration was then approved by the ICA General Assembly in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2005.CICOPA currently has a total of 46 members in 31 countries, four of which are development organisations. CICOPA has two regional organisations: CECOP- CICOPA Europe and CICOPA Americas. CICOPA Americas includes two sub-regional organisations; CICOPA North America and CICOPA Mercosur.CICOPA's most recent general assembly took place in Cancun, on 18 November 2011.. }
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- CICOPA abstract "CICOPA (International Organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers' Co-operatives) is the branch of the International Co-operative Alliance that promotes worker cooperatives. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, CICOPA has a membership of 46 national and regional cooperative federations in 31 countries. Its associated members are support organizations promoting cooperatives in their regions.Many of those cooperatives are worker cooperatives, businesses where the employees are the owners of the enterprise. In 2003, the then CICOPA president Rainer Schluter reported that in Europe they have seen a leap from 2,500 worker co-ops and related models in 1980, to 85,000 today, with a total membership of 1.5 million worker-ownersThe 2003 CICOPA General Assembly held in Oslo approved in principle the World Declaration on Cooperative Worker Ownership. The Final draft was approved by the CICOPA Executive Committee on 17 February 2004. The Declaration was then approved by the ICA General Assembly in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2005.CICOPA currently has a total of 46 members in 31 countries, four of which are development organisations. CICOPA has two regional organisations: CECOP- CICOPA Europe and CICOPA Americas. CICOPA Americas includes two sub-regional organisations; CICOPA North America and CICOPA Mercosur.CICOPA's most recent general assembly took place in Cancun, on 18 November 2011.".