SCEW project (Social Cooperatives East-West) was a transnational cooperation project, focusing on the following priority objective: “ to promote the exchange of information and good practice aimed at creating favourable conditions for the setting up of information, consultation and participation structures within undertakings as foreseen in Directive 2002 / 14 / EC.”
 
The main goal of the project was to support and foster the development and the exchange of good practices in force across Europe concerning information, consultation and participation structures settled within undertakings, focusing especially on associations of Social Co-operatives and with the participation of their European umbrella federation.
 
In order to do so, we observed and analyzed the opportunity of social enterprises and cooperatives in developing innovative and efficient structures for the information, consultation and participation of workers within these undertakings. The focus will be done on the comparison between social enterprises and cooperatives from Eastern and central Europe and from Western Europe.
 
Project was realized in the partnership of different organizations:
Cooperative organizations from Poland, Italy, Czech Republic ad Bulgaria;
Trade unions from Poland, Bulgaria and Italy;
Research institutions.
 
We enhance to read the full report of the project as well as to read the final publication titled “Training for Democracy”.