Laurea Magistrale in Scienze dello Sviluppo e della Cooperazione Internazionale Laboratorio di impresa cooperativa nella progettazione per lo sviluppo Academic Year 2016-2017 Module I - Introduction With the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Background 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 European Union Programmes for international development cooperation, and support the capacity to elaborate and manage projects co-financed by the Calls of the European Union. Results in the last years: students acquisition of the competences was confirmed by the fact that the last 3 project proposals - wrote as excercise - were actually selected by the European Union under different Programmes. 2
Academic Year 2014-2015 EmPOwer Empower the Euro-Turkish POs dialogue in the fishery sector 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. February 2016 February 2017 Partnership: Haliéus (Lead) Fishery Producers Organization of Rize Associates: - University of Rize - Italian Association of Fishery Cooperatives Co-funding: European Union and Republic of Turkey, Programme Civil Society Dialogue IV (CSD IV) 3
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Academic Year 2015-2016 S.P.R.IN.G. Strenghtening CSO s Participation for a Responsible and Inclusive Growth through development of rural cooperatives in IRAN Objective: enhancing the Iranian CSO s contribution to governance and development process. Specific objective: Strengthen the capacity of cooperatives and cooperative associations to promote inclusive and sustainable growth, by supporting the rural producers in the County of Bam (Province of Kerman). Partnership: SPASDI (local NGO) + Haliéus Associates: Legacoop, CORC, CURACI (local apex association of cooperatives) Funding source: European Union -CSOs Programme 5
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MED-IN Shaping 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 Leader Applicant: GVC Academic Year 2016-2017 Partners: Legacoop & Members of the Social Economy Mediterranean Network ESMED Funding source: European Union DG Near Enhancing Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in the Southern Neighbourhood Concept Note Approved! 7
Evolution Since 2016 the Course has been turned into a Seminar Course, part of the Course on International Economic Polocy and Development. 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). 8
2017/2018: Jean Monnet Chair In 2017 the Seminarial Course was recognized by the EU as module 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 studies provide in-depth teaching on EU matters for future professionals in fields which are in increasing demand on the labour market 9
Structure of the course (24h) Introduction to the Course _ framing together EU, cooperatives, development and trade economic policies ODULE 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 PS. The identification of the suitable Call for Proposal will start from the first lessons 10
What s the link between: Economic theories and dynamics on international trade & development Cooperative enterprises EU Programmes and Projects Sustainable Development Goals 11
From macroeconomic aspect of globalisation to microeconomic responses Joseph E. Stiglitz 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 his speech at the Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance, Quebec 2016 12
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) 13
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). 14
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 democraticallycontrolled enterprise. 15
Inequality. Effects of cooperatives on Income distribution Cooperative is a form of enterprise that - at the micro-level 1 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 capital 2, 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. 16
CONTACTS: Francesca Ottolenghi f.ottolenghi@legacoop.coop Legacoop - Office for international relations and EU Policies Gabriele Verginelli g.verginelli@halieus.it Haliéus Projects Coordinator 17