Speakers will share research and case studies on how co-ops are a viable alternative with a proven track record for organising workers in the cultural and creative sectors and will share how co-operatives can collaborate on policies for sustainable development. It will also explore how education can be a tool for promoting the culture of co-operation as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
“I am delighted that the application by the ICA to organise a side-event at the historic UNESCO Mondiacult 2022, which was developed in close coordination with CICOPA and Cooperatives of the Americas, was accepted by the screening committee,” said Bruno Roelants, director general of the ICA.
The side-event evolved out of a session at the ICA World Cooperative Congress (Seoul 2021), examining the opportunities resulting from the UNESCO Inscription of the idea and practice of organising shared interests into co-operatives as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.
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