Cyprus International Year of Cooperatives Conference

On the occasion of 2012, declared by the UN as the International Year of Cooperatives the Cyprus National Committee for the International Year of Cooperatives invites you to the 2012 International Year of Cooperatives Conference in Cyprus. The Conference, which is organized in cooperation with Cooperatives Europe, will take place at the International Conference Center in Nicosia on the 28th to 29th of September 2012, during the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU. The main objective of Conference is to consult member states about their feedback on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE), promote co-operatives, raise awareness of the contribution of co-operatives to social and economic development and promote their formation and growth. The main sessions of the Conference will be the following: 1. Co-operative answers to the current economic crisis 2. Co-operative Development Support: Dialogue between Cooperative experts and EU policy makers. 3. Co-operatives and regional Cohesion: The role of cooperatives in Cyprus in 2012. 4. Towards a new European Co-operative Society regulation: An overview of national cooperative legislations in Europe and the potential for revision of the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE) Regulation.