Researchers from the institute took part in an international symposium on value chain development in agri-food systems at Humboldt University in Berlin. The discussions focused on strengthening rural development and improving value chains for smallholder farmers.
In the GenoScience Newsletter 2024, the Berlin Institute for Cooperative Studies and its Supporting Association present a summary of their work over the past year.
Our Institute Director, Prof. Dr. Marcel Robischon, has been honored as an outstanding “Communicator” in the Tagesspiegel series “The 100 Most Important Minds in Berlin Science 2024.”
Jos Bijman, associate professor of cooperative organisations at Wageningen University, has been advising different farmer cooperatives in Burundi.
On February 26, 2024, Bavaria’s Minister of Environment and Consumer Protection, Thorsten Glauber, presented Prof. Dr. Franz-Theo Gottwald with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
In the GenoScience Newsletter 2023, the Berlin Institute for Cooperative Studies and its Supporting Association present a summary of their work over the past year.
A recent study by the Berlin Institute for Cooperative Studies at the HU Berlin examines how Community Cooperatives and institutions for the promotion of civic engagement (e.g., volunteer agencies, community foundations and municipal agents for civic engagement) work together.
Congratulations to Katrin Martens, who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled „Governing Social Innovation in Rural Areas: The Role of Member Based Organizations“.
In the GenoScience Newsletter 2022, the Berlin Institute for Cooperative Studies and its Supporting Association present a summary of their work over the past year.
In October, a new six-month (October 2022 – March 2023) project entitled Engagement-promoting Infrastructures for Citizen Cooperatives started at the BICS.
