The new project, “Engagement-Promoting Infrastructures for Citizen Cooperatives,” starts at the BICS
In October, a new six-month (October 2022 – March 2023) project entitled Engagement-promoting Infrastructures for Citizen Cooperatives started at the BICS.
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”
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”.
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.

GenoScience Newsletter 2021 Published
In the GenoScience Newsletter 2021, the Berlin Institute for Cooperative Studies and its Supporting Association present a summary of their work over the past year.

BICS welcomes Prof. Marcel Robischon as member
The BICS is excited to welcome Prof. Marcel Robischon to the Institute as a member.
