Dear colleagues,
Please find below a call for abstracts.
Our working group, the cooperative working group of the Young Scholars Initiative have over the years organised panels, workshops etc during this conference.
This year we shall continue in this tradition using an online format, hence we invite interested members to join in forming an organising team in this regards.
If you find this interesting, please indicate your interest through: akanjiajibola16@yahoo.com, nkuhimsm@gmail.com, paola.raffaelli@iqs.url.edu, and coop@youncoop@youngscholarsinitiative.org.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Ajibola Anthony AKANJI (Esq) PhD
The 5th Edition of the Conference on Cooperatives and the Solidarity Economy will take place from the 4-7th November 2025 in Sandton, South Africa. This conference will be weeks before the G20 Summit set to take place also in South Africa, Johannesburg. We invite abstract and full paper submissions for the conference. The final call is open until 13th September 2025.
The conference covers the following thematic areas:
CCSE 2025: Conference Themes
Cooperatives
· Governance in cooperatives
· Role of cooperatives in Local economic development
· Livelihoods and cooperatives
· Worker ownership
· Mobilising resources through cooperatives
· Organising the cooperative movement from primary to apex cooperatives
Social and Solidarity Economy
· Studies on Youth cooperatives
· Democracy and women led cooperatives
· Solidarity Economy experiences and case studies
· Eradicating the causes of poverty
· Debating the social and solidarity economy as a field of study
· Examining the standard of living and quality of life in the context of social and solidarity economy
Social Enterprise
· Unpacking developments in NGOs and NPOs post USAID
· Emergence of the new type of social enterprise
· Innovations in social enterprises
· Leadership and Management in Social Enterprises
· Community empowerment through social enterprises
· CBOs, who are they?
· Women and Youth ownership of the social enterprise
Social Development
· Eradicating the causes of poverty – deep dive approaches
· Establishing meanings of social development in the era of AI
· Meaning making: Cooperatives, Solidarity and Social Development at crossroads
· Unpacking the role of social grants in social development
· Extending and expanding the potential of social development programmes
· Ethics in social development
Sustainability
· Examining the concept of sustainability
· Beyond the triple bottom line
· The ESG challenge
· Sectoral perceptions and practices in a sustainable enterprise
· Ecology
· Environmental preservation and the role of cooperatives
· Contribution of cooperatives to sustainability
· The race for SDG targets: The Problems and Challenges of such a race.
Cooperative Entrepreneurship
· Review of the early cooperative enterprise
· Financial and Operational performance of cooperatives
· Member benefits
· Innovation amongst cooperatives
· Influence of entrepreneurship on the cooperative enterprise model
· Contextualising and challenging the idea of “Cooperative Entrepreneurship”
· New forms of cooperatives
KEY DATES
TO JOIN THE 5TH EDITION OF CCSE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT DATES
Final Call for Submissions Closes: 13th September 2025
Final Issue of Review outcomes: 26 September 2025
Registration Closes: 30 September 2025
Pre-Conference Webinar: 16 October 2025
- Final Conference Programme Issued: 20 October 2025
