Who we are

Cooperatives Europe is the voice of cooperative enterprises in Europe. On behalf of our 83 member organisations, we represent 176.000 cooperative enterprises from all sectors of the economy, 140 million members and 4,7 million employees.

The Cooperatives Europe Development Platform (CEDP) is a network of 10 European cooperative organisations which are members of Cooperatives Europe and work on issues of development policy and development implementation. Coming from diverse sectors, cooperative partners share their expertise in complementary fields: cooperative financing, agricultural cooperative development, cooperative law, etc.

The partners currently involved in the CEDP are Cera-BRS (Belgium), Coopermondo - Confcooperative (Italy), the Co-operative College (United Kingdom), DGRV (Germany), Euro Coop (EU), Kooperationen (Denmark), Legacoop (Italy), We Effect (Sweden), Ajeec-Nisped (Israel) and REScoop (EU).