Laboratorio di impresa cooperativa nella progettazione per lo sviluppo
Academic Year 2016-2017
Module I - Introduction
Laurea Magistrale in Scienze dello Sviluppo e della Cooperazione Internazionale
With the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Background
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This Seminar Course is the evolution of a previous course«Cooperazione e Sviluppo nell’Unione Europea» (A.A. 2013-2016).
Objective: provide copmpetences on the EuropeanUnion Programmes for international developmentcooperation, and support the capacity to elaborate andmanage projects co-financed by the Calls of the EuropeanUnion.
Results in the last years: students’ acquisition of thecompetences was confirmed by the fact that the last 3project proposals - wrote as excercise - were actuallyselected by the European Union under differentProgrammes.
EmPOwerEmpower the Euro-Turkish POs’ dialogue in the fishery sector
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February 2016 – February 2017
Objective: Contribute to improve the dialogue
between the Turkish and European CSOs
Specific objective: Improve the competencies and
the operational capacities of Turkish POs on
fishery production and markets in the Black Sea.
Co-funding: European Union and Republic of Turkey,
Programme Civil Society Dialogue IV (CSD IV)
Partnership:
Haliéus (Lead)
Fishery Producers’ Organization of Rize
Associates:
-University of Rize
- Italian Association of Fishery Cooperatives
Academic Year 2014-2015
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S.P.R.IN.G.
Strenghtening CSO’s Participation for a Responsible and Inclusive Growth through development of rural cooperatives in IRAN
Specific objective: Strengthen the capacity ofcooperatives and cooperative associations to promoteinclusive and sustainable growth, by supporting therural producers in the County of Bam (Province ofKerman).
Funding source: European Union -CSOs Programme
Partnership:
SPASDI (local NGO) + Haliéus
Associates: Legacoop, CORC, CURACI (local apex associationof cooperatives)
Academic Year 2015-2016
Objective: enhancing the Iranian CSO’s contribution to governance and
development process.
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MED-INShaping the Future of Social Economy for inclusive
growth in South Mediterranean countries
Objective: To contribute to improve social cohesion and inclusive, sustainable job creation for youth and women in the Mediterranean by fostering social
economy entrepreneurial environment
Funding source: European Union – DG NearEnhancing Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in the Southern Neighbourhood
Leader Applicant: GVC
Partners: Legacoop & Members of the Social Economy Mediterranean Network ESMED
Academic Year 2016-2017
Concept Note Approved!
Evolution
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1) ..for boosting the focus on practical learning on project preparation
2) ..for strenghtening the linkage between the EU Programmes and
projects and the International developments economic policies and
theories.
3) .. for providing to the students tools and insights on the new
approaches on development, which pay more attention to the role
of the Private Sector in Development (Cooperatives), valorizing
the synergies established by the University La Sapienza (with
Legacoop).
Since 2016 the Course has been turned into a Seminar Course, part of the Course on International Economic Polocy and Development.
2017/2018: Jean Monnet Chair
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In 2017 the Seminarial Course was recognized by the EU asmodule of the Jean Monnet Chair on “Rethinking the EU trade policy for Development” (REUTRADE).
The Jean Monnet Chair is awarded to one course of the University that has particular value for:
deepen teaching of EU studiesprovide in-depth teaching on EU matters for future professionals in fields which are in increasing demand on the labour market
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MODULE I _COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE AS TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES (6H)
Coops and SDGs_ player of development cooperation
Key notes on the functioning of cooperative enterprises in Italy and Developing Countries
MODULE II _ ACCESS TO EU FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (6H)
EU funds for cooperation: from Policies to Projects, typologies of Calls, identification
of suitable Calls for proposals
Main EU funding instruments for development cooperation
Project Cycle Management, formats for Application forms, Logical Framework and
Budget
MODULE III _ JOINT ELABORATION OF A PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR AN ACTUAL EU CALL (12H)
Analysis of the selected Call for proposal
Analyisis of the country(ies) and beneficiaries’ needs and priorities
Framing project objectives
Elaboration of the project proposal
Structure of the course (24h)
PS. The identification of the suitable Call for Proposal will start from the first lessons
Introduction to the Course _ framing together EU, cooperatives, development and
trade economic policies
What’s the link between:
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Economic theoriesand dynamics on
international trade & development
Cooperative enterprises
SustainableDevelopment Goals
EU Programmes and Projects
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Globalisation provides both opportunities and challenges. Expanding markets
and access to knowledge and technology produced throughout the world
provides an opportunity for substantial increases in standards of living. But
competition from abroad can provide significant challenges.
Working Paper No 9/2004, Luglio, Italy, Univ di Genova, Intervention at the Legacoop Assembly 2004
Considering the inequality effect of Globalization there are some major changes in
understandings of inequality:
Trickle down economics doesn’t work.
Large differences in outcomes/opportunities among advanced countries
Suggesting that it is policies, not inexorable economic forces that are at play
Economies with less inequality and less inequality of opportunity perform better
From macroeconomic aspect of globalisationto microeconomic responses
Joseph E. Stiglitz
From his speech at the Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance, Quebec 2016
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Seizing opportunities of globalization.
Some Least Developed Countries LDC, and among them some persons or groups, meet
more constraints in seizing the opportunities opened by globalization. They remain
marginalized from the international value chains. This is recognized even by the WTO,
which created to this scope the Aid for Trade (see WTO Report «Connecting LDCs to Value
Chains»).
Producers (such as farmers) can meet obstacles in accessing to markets (quantities,
logistics, etc), access to credit, compliance with the standards for export (such as the SPS
measures).
Single workers can meet higher obstacles in obtaining fair working conditions on the
job market, also due to the lower barganing power.
Consumers (or users) can meet difficulties in terms of barganing power toward the big
international players (multinationals, big retailers, not only in terms of prices, but also in
terms of quality and responsible production). ps. Please consider that most of the wins of
the opening of global markets is linked to the increase of the consumers’ surplus (rendita
del consumatore)
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Seizing opportunities of globalization.
The cooperative enterprises are created by groups of people for overcoming together
some constraints that they meet in their activity of consumers, workers or producers.
In other words, to satisfy their needs with «conditions better than those otherwise
possible on the market».
Beware! Those constraints can be hightened in open markets, but they reflects «features»
that already exist before the globalization processes. These needs in common
that the Members want to satisfy through the cooperative is called the «Mutual
benefit exchange» (Scopo Mutualistico). The final aim of a cooperative is this
mutual benefit exchange and not the maximization of profits (which is the aim of
other shareholder enterprises).
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International Cooperative Alliance
Definition of Cooperatives (1995)
A co-operative is an autonomous
association of persons united voluntarily to
meet their common economic, social, and
cultural needs and aspirations through a
jointly owned and democratically-
controlled enterprise.
Inequality.
Effects of cooperatives on Income distribution
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Cooperative is a form of enterprise that - at the micro-level1 – switches the destination of
the profit from the returns on capital, to the remuneration of the other factors of
production (labour in labour cooperatives, labour and land of smallholders in
agricultural cooperatives) or toward the maximization of the surplus of the consumer,
in consumer cooperatives.
The cooperatives facilitate the vertical integration along the value chains, increasing the
barganing power of primary producers (in agricultural coops), of workers (in labour
coops), or consumers (in consumers’ coops).
Moreover, in consumers cooperatives there is a higher level of awareness of the
consumers toward the socio-sconomic impact of their consumption behaviour, because in
a coop the member is no more only a consumers, he becomes agent of the retailing and
sometimes of the production (for instance SolidalCoop products certified Fairtrade).
Cooperatives reduce the bargaining power and the remuneration of the capital2, which
becomes only «mean» and not «aim» of the activity.
1. «Micro» si to be referred to the fact that it concerns single enterprises rather than the overal economic system, but some coops are market leader
2. The remuneration of risk capital and debt capital is normally limited by the law in cooperative enterprises.
CONTACTS:
Francesca Ottolenghi [email protected]
Legacoop - Office for international relations and EU Policies
Gabriele Verginelli [email protected]
Haliéus – Projects Coordinator
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