Newsletter at a glance

• Tom Webb will be inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame, 2025
• Open Access Report and Cases on Complex Co-operative Networks
• Free Mini-Course: Thriving Together - Strengthening Co-operative Networks
• Stay tuned for the 2026 Symposium on Co-operative Identity and Branding
• ICCM participated in the ICA Global Cooperative Conference in New Delhi
• Applications open for online, part-time graduate business programs
• Registration open and bursaries available for Credit Union Leadership Program
• Registration open for Co-op Law Summer School in Croatia, August 2025
• Last chance to register for Costa Rica Study Tour in February 2025!

Tom Webb inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame, 2025

Tom Webb, founder of our flagship Master of Management, Co-operatives and Credit Unions, will be inducted into the US Cooperative Hall of Fame (2025)! Founded in 2003, the master's program has since blossomed into the International Centre for Co-operative Management. We are profoundly grateful for Tom's leadership and steadfast commitment to co-operative education firmly anchored in the co-operative identity. Learn more about Tom and other co-op heroes.

Symposium on Co-operative Identity and Branding

Co-operatives will be the best-kept secret no longer! Join us from May 19-21, 2026, for our International Symposium on Co-operative Identity and Energizing the Co-operative Brand at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, NS, Canada. This event is organized collectively with DotCooperation and Northwest Cooperative Development Centre. More details are forthcoming. Would you like to attend, speak, or sponsor? Register your interest!

Apply today for online, part-time graduate business programs!

Applications are open for our online part-time Certificate (10 months), Graduate Diploma (16 months) and Master's (3 years) programs for co-op and credit union professionals. Learn how to elevate the co-operative identity for member and community impact with customized management programs. Navigate the complexity of co-operatives as a distinct people-centred, democratic, and jointly owned enterprise model and gain tools and fresh insights to enrich your organization in real-time. Learn alongside a global peer network of co-operative and credit union professionals. Bursaries are available. Register for an info session to learn more!

Co-op Law Summer School 2025 in Pula, Croatia

Join us in Pula, Croatia, from August 24-29, 2025, for our 2nd Co-op Law Summer School hosted at the J. Dobrila University of Pula. Take a deep dive into the relationship between co-op law, the co-operative identity, and sustainable development with renowned co-op legal expert Hagen Henrÿ, along with special guest experts. Those with a strong interest in co-op law and policy, namely lawyers, law students in advanced stages of study, co-op practitioners, co-op advocacy and government relations professionals, policymakers, and regulators, are encouraged to partake. Register today!

Report and Cases on Complex Co-operative Networks

Co-operatives have long been celebrated as powerful vehicles for economic inclusion, social equity, and sustainable development. Central to their ethos is the principle of "Co-operation among Co-operatives." The Centre developed a conceptual framework that expands on the traditional understanding of inter-cooperation by viewing Principle 6 through the lens of complex co-operative networks. Enjoy our Complex Networks for Co-operative Economies report as well as three case studies as proof of this concept.

Free Mini-Course: Strengthening

Co-operative Networks

We are pleased to collaborate with the Co-operative Management Education Co-operative to offer a free virtual mini-executive education course: Thriving Together—Strengthening Co-operative Networks. Dig into the who, what, when, and how of intercooperation and learn practical strategies, big and small, to build thriving co-operative economies. This offering is distilled from our short courses on the Power and Purpose of Intercooperation. Join us on January 22 from 1 to 3 PM AST! Register today!

ICA Global Cooperative Conference 2024 in New Delhi

The Centre's Sonja Novkovic, Erbin Crowell, and Cathy Statz were thrilled to participate in the International Cooperative Alliance's Global Cooperative Conference 2024 in New Delhi, India, November 25-30. Sonja moderated a plenary panel, "Creating and Measuring Cooperative Impact," which addressed co-operatives' impact through the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, the Fair Trade movement, sustainability transitions, as well as the need for authentic sustainability measurements against planetary boundaries. Erbin was a featured speaker on a panel on the co-operative identity reporting on a multiyear global consultation via the Co-operative Identity Advisory Group (ICA). Enjoy Co-op News' round-up article on the conference! Photo credit: Co-op News.

CanadaDE Credit Union Leadership Program

Join us September 14-19, 2025, in Halifax, NS, for Canada Development Education (CanadaDE) - an international strategic leadership program for credit union professionals who want to build their credit unions as community impact institutions. Learn strategies to expand your credit union's value proposition and join an international network of certified Development Educators. Complete CanadaDE and open doors to the esteemed I-CUDE designation. We are pleased to offer bursaries for credit union professionals who are emerging or from small credit unions. Register today!

Last Chance to Register for Costa Rica Study Tour

From February 16-24, 2025, immerse yourself in Costa Rican social ecology and co-operative economy! Learn from Costa Rican co-ops on the leading edge of sustainable development. Limited space is available—secure your seat! This study tour is possible through partnerships with the Centre of Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Co-operatives and Universidad Fundepos de Costa Rica!

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The International Centre for Co-operative Management at Saint Mary's University is located in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded and never surrendered territory of the Mi'kmaq. The Mi'kmaq have stewarded these lands since time immemorial. It is covered by the 18th Century Peace and Friendship Treaties. We are Treaty People.