Euricse

The empresa recuperada, or the worker-recuperated enterprise are formerly investor-owned businesses in trouble or that closed and that are subsequently taken over or bought out by employees and converted to worker coops. Given the re-emergence of these worker-led takeovers, buy-outs, and conversions in recent years in regions and countries particularly hard-hit by macro-economic crises and market failure (such as Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Italy, France, and Spain, to name only a few), and given how communities gain from the presence of worker cooperatives, it behooves researchers, cooperative federations, unions, and policy makers at all levels to better understand the recuperadas phenomenon.

Le Groupe de recherche sur le droit européen des coopératives (SGECOL) est un groupe européen d'universitaires spécialisés en droit des coopératives, créé en novembre 2011 à Trento (Italie), à l'Institut Européen de Recherche sur les Coopératives et l'Entreprise Sociale (Euricse). L'objectif général du SGECOL est de mener des recherches comparées sur le droit des coopératives en Europe et ainsi de favoriser une meilleure compréhension et prise en compte du droit des coopératives au sein de la communauté juridique, scientifique et gouvernementale, au niveau national, européen et international.

The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives in order to increase public awareness of cooperatives, promote consciousness of the global network of cooperatives and their efforts in community building and peace, support the formation and the growth of cooperatives and encourage governments and regulatory bodies to establish policies, laws and regulations conducive to cooperative formation and growth.