Territorial coop

Mailig list : territorial-coop@ripess.eu

Members : to be confirmed

Description : In a world that is changing and reinventing social involvement, personal development, and ways of working, being able to cooperate is a key skill that everyone can assimilate, all throughout life. The context of the health crisis fosters the need to reinvest the territories and the young generations.

Many people and structures cooperate at a territorial scale in urban and rural areas, through the mutualization of means, collective events, shared-places, collaborative cultural projects, or territorial networks regrouping social & solidarity economy organizations. We experiment cooperative approaches for local development, that are creative, evolving, and innovative.

How is territorial cooperation carried out? What skills, tools, or methodologies are necessary to implement or improve practices?

We offer to reflect together on these themes collectively, based on previous findings from the AJITeR project and in the context of the launching of the COOPTERR project. This Erasmus+ project regroups six organizations, including RIPESS Europe and several members of the network (Fekete Sereg, Solidarius Italia, CRIES…) and aims at fashioning tools and methods for training people on territorial cooperation, key issue for local development, diversity, and living together in harmony.

GA meeting report :

The workshop was the occasion to launch the ERASMUS+ project – COOPTERR Training on territorial cooperation practices through culture and SSE – carried out by several members of/and the RIPESS EUROPE (CRIES, FEKETE SEREG, SOLIDARIUS ITALIA, UFISC). It also enabled to share findings from a project on rural areas and youth (AJITeR carried out by UFISC) that highlights the importance of local territorial cooperation.

The participants discussed the need for territorial cooperation, reinforced in the context of the current crisis. They shared their own experiences and practices regarding territorial cooperation and started reflecting on  possible leverages (clear objectives, training, means…).  

These different elements will nourish the collaborative project COOPTERR, in terms of tool and methodologies necessary for cooperation within a territory.