Community Enterprises

Coopera supports inland areas seeking to initiate processes of economic and social regeneration through the creation and development of Community Enterprises: forms of collective entrepreneurship, rooted in the local context, that focus on collaboration between citizens, institutions, and economic operators.
Some of the cooperative's members have specialized in the creation, development, and management of community enterprises at the University of Florence, a path that has strengthened Coopera's commitment to supporting villages and communities that choose to invest in their future.

Through a personalized approach, Coopera supports local groups in defining a shared entrepreneurial vision. It facilitates participatory processes to involve citizens and local stakeholders in drafting the bylaws, the heart of its operations. It provides support in building the governance model and operational management through simulations and practices already implemented in other destinations. It promotes circular, social, and solidarity economy models. It assists in drafting business plans and seeking public and private funding.
Community Enterprises thus become concrete tools for creating local jobs, enhancing local resources (from agriculture to crafts, from cultural heritage to local services), and offering new opportunities to those who remain, return, or choose to live in the villages. To support this process, Coopera also offers Educational Tours: traveling training experiences for administrators, citizens, informal groups, or associations interested in discovering firsthand the best practices of community cooperatives already operating in Italy. These tours offer an opportunity to learn firsthand, connect with those who have already implemented these models, and build networks and shared visions for their local communities.
With Coopera, communities don't just imagine change: they build it, together.