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Doctoral candidate Malte Müller successfully defended his thesis on the behaviour of members in agricultural producer groups
Congratulations to Malte Müller, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis in May 2021.
Margitta Minah successfully defended her PhD thesis on the role of farmer organisations in rural development
Congratulations to Margitta Minah who defended her PhD thesis at the end of January 2022 titled “The role of farmer organisations in rural development: Revisiting their membership, impacts and external support”
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Marleen Thürling successfully defended her PhD thesis on the role of cooperatives in safeguarding services of general interest
Congratulations to Marleen Thürling, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Cooperatives for Securing Services of General Interest? Civic engagement between self-empowerment and excessive demands”.
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BICS welcomes new member Dr. Robert Philipp
Dr. Robert Philipp works as an Audit Consultant at the Association of Cooperatives – Association of Regions.
CooPerformance project enters final stage
In the CooPerformance project, the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest (UASVM), the University of Almeria in Spain and the Humboldt University of Berlin have been collaborating since November 2019.
BICS welcomes Prof. Marcel Robischon as member
The BICS is excited to welcome Prof. Marcel Robischon to the Institute as a member.
New publication by Malte Müller on leadership in agricultural machinery circles in Tajikistan
The paper, recently published in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE), shows that machinery circles can be an efficient organisational form of cooperation among farms of smaller size, particularly in circumstances, where rural services are only poorly developed.
COVID-19 pandemic: different format or dates for the ICA CCR European Research Conference in Athens?
The organisers of this year’s ICA CCR Europe Conference, originally planned to be held in Athens from July 8-10, announced that in response to the COVID-19 crisis the conference will not be held in a “presencial format”.
Carla Dohmwirth successfully defended her PhD thesis on women’s empowerment in Indian dairy cooperatives
Congratulations to Carla Dohmwirth who has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled „Women, collective action and empowerment – An economic approach“. Her research project focused on the analysis of women’s empowerment in collective action in agriculture.