Platform Coops

06/12/2025

✨ Join us for our Platform Coops Open Research Forum on December 8, 5-7pm CET online ✨
This gathering is calling , and who are interested to ask questions around platform cooperativism and learn from practical insights.

Over the past years, our Platform Coops team has received growing interest from people in academia. All of them are investigating cooperative ownership, democratic governance and the future of digital economies. While we cannot respond individually to every request, we see a strong need for shared exchange and collaboration.
With this open research call, we bring together scholars, students, and practitioners who study or document platform cooperativism, digital commons, and cooperative innovation.

Together we’ll discuss current research questions, identify emerging trends, and connect peers working on similar topics across countries and disciplines.
This event is co-organised and hosted by Ela Kagel, Andreas Arnold, Claudia Henke, Melike N. Kaplan and Anannya Bhowmik.

24/03/2025

🪻Equality, Inclusivity, and Justice
🪻Autonomy, consent, and respect
🪻Care and well-being
🪻Intersectionality
🪻Collectivism and Solidarity
🪻Challenging hierarchy
are some feminist values we see in feminist economics. What other values do you wish to see in the economy today?

👋🏼 Join the discussion this Thursday at our Community call, sign up here: https://shorturl.at/dc5Ih

17/03/2025

🥰 We're beyond excited to have Sari join us for our Community Call: Labor, power, and well-being in feminist economics
🪻Together we will peak into Feminist Economics in Action and explore alternative models of governance & organizing
👋 Join us to peak into Feminist Economics in Action and explore alternative models of governance & Organization.
✨ RSVP now! https://shorturl.at/dc5Ih

13/03/2025

✊🏼 Cooperatives are feminist by nature, as they challenge hierarchy and exploitation and put into practice the values of collectivism, empowerment, and solidarity.

🪻During the month of International Women*s Day, we want to talk about Feminist Economics. How organizations led by feminist values impact labor, power, and well-being and shape alternative economies.

👋 Join us to peak into Feminist Economics in Action and explore alternative models of governance & Organization.

✨ RSVP now! https://shorturl.at/dc5Ih

Join us to talk about feminist economies, alternative governance models, and the role feminist values play in an organization

25/02/2025

🤗 Join us tomorrow, alongside Andreas Arnold, to discuss how we can harness the power of Tokenomics for the public good

👉🏼 Save your spot for our Community Call here: https://shorturl.at/NmMGM

24/02/2025

👀 Few more days before our digital event 🪙Who Owns The Means of Money?🪙 takes place
✨ Join us and Ela Kagel to demystify Tokenomics and how they can be used for the public good
👉🏼 RSVP now: https://shorturl.at/NmMGM

19/02/2025

👀 Have you met a Blockchain Socialist before?
👋 Join our Community Call next Wednesday to discover✨Who Owns the Means of Money✨, meet Josh, and explore how the power of Tokenomics could be used as a tool for the public good.
✨ RSVP now! https://shorturl.at/NmMGM

18/02/2025

👀 Who Owns the Means of Money? And how can we seize them for the public good?

👋 Join us and Beth McCarthy next Wednesday to explore how the power of Tokenomics could be used as a tool for the public good.

✨ RSVP now! https://shorturl.at/NmMGM

12/02/2025

🤔 Have you ever wondered what "The means of money production" are and what "seizing them" might look like?
🪙 In our Community Call, we want to discuss how projects in the Token Economy give power, access, and knowledge to the people to participate in the money production process.
👋 Join us to explore how the power of Tokenomics could be used as a tool for the public good.
✨ RSVP now! https://shorturl.at/NmMGM

02/02/2025

Ihr wollt wissen wie Genossenschaft wirklich geht und kommt aus dem Saarland? Andere Coop-Gründerteams aus dem Saarland kennenlernen und euch mit ihnen vernetzen? Die Nachfolge im Betrieb, in dem ihr arbeitet, steht an und ihr als Belegschaft könntet euch vorstellen gemeinsam zu übernehmen? Dann meldet euch jetzt noch an zu unserem Seminar in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitskammer des Saarlandes am 19. bis 21. März 2025: https://www.bildungszentrum-kirkel.de/seminare-im-bzk/seminare-im-bzk/detailansicht-seminare?tx_seminars_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=722&cHash=e512644211d36b47066ec4352037bd3f
Claudia Henke Andreas Arnold

Bildungszentrum Kirkel

20/01/2025

This Friday, Oihane Amurrio will join us in our Community Call to celebrate the International Day of Education together. Oihane will introduce us to her work at Travelling U and talk about the future of cooperative education.
👉Join us here: https://shorturl.at/8eNsO

*Travelling U is an educational cooperative that designs cross-cultural learning experiences based on three main pillars: collaborative learning, human-centered leadership, and cooperative entrepreneurship. Travelling U co-founded and is an active collaborator in the Mondragon Team Academy World (MTA), an international network gathering currently 2500 team entrepreneurs and young change leaders all over the world.