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The Invisible City
[Published January 1, 2025]
Background
1842
In Catalonia, proto-cooperative experiments begin, such as the Companyia Fabril de Teixidors a Mà de Barcelona, a factory with 200 workers run by the weavers' society.
1844
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers is founded, the first to establish the principles that would govern the international cooperative movement. Despite the existence of previous initiatives, this cooperative is considered the first established cooperative society in European history.
1863
The republican Joan Tutau introduces the term "cooperative" to Catalonia and the Spanish state in an article in the newspaper El Ampurdanés on December 24.
1864
The production cooperative L'Obrera Mataronina is founded, led by the worker weaver Salvador Pagès i Inglada, who stated that "the Obrera was to provide a series of social, economic, and cultural services that would meet the needs of the workers of the time as well as the utopian ideals."
1865
The republican weaver Antoni Gusart, from the newspaper *El Obrero*, calls the first Workers' Congress of the Spanish State, with the objective of "promoting the cooperative movement, which, having been established in England a few years prior, has spread rapidly to all European nations."
Foundation of La Propagadora del Treball in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, a production cooperative run by the worker Josep Roca i Galès.
Foundation of L'Econòmica de Palafrugell and La Companyia de Canet de Mar, the first existing Catalan consumer cooperatives, which adopt the Rochdale model.
1866
Josep Roca i Galès creates the magazine La Asociación, where he promotes cooperativism and establishes the distinctiveness of the cooperative compared to other types of workers' associations.
Foundation of L'Antiga del Camp de l'Arpa and La Constància Martinenca (1868), of the Bienechora of Badalona, the Unión Obrera de Sants and L'Obrera Sabadellenca. (1873), of Teixidors a Mà de Gràcia and L'Artesana del Poblenou (1876), of La Fraternitat de la Barceloneta and of L'Andreuenca (1879). All of them are workers' consumer cooperatives, which spread more quickly than production cooperatives.
1868
The recently established Central Directorate of Workers' Societies of Barcelona organizes a congress where it champions cooperativism as a formula for economic development, thus accepting the principles of cooperation.
1883
The Obrera Mataronina cooperative builds housing for its members and is considered a pioneering initiative for housing cooperatives. The architect Antoni Gaudí designs one of its factory buildings and the cooperative's logo.
1887
Approval of the Associations Law, which provides a first legal framework—albeit a general one—for the legal recognition of cooperatives.
1888 .
The Valls Agricultural Society is founded as a resistance association for modest farmers against landowners. It will be the first legalized agricultural cooperative.
1890
Foundation of the La Flor de Maig cooperative in Barcelona's Poblenou district. In just over thirty years, the sixteen founding internationalist barrelmakers grow to nearly 1,700 families, with more than a hundred employees on the payroll. In addition to the main headquarters, they open seven branches and acquire a farm in Cerdanyola, which, in addition to its agricultural and livestock uses, becomes a symbol of the cooperative movement by hosting numerous gatherings.
1894
The cooperative school of the Societat Agrícola de Valls is founded. The entities that will later form the Agrícola Cooperative of Barberà de la Conca create the first cooperative winery in Catalonia.
1895
Creation of the International Co-operative and Mutuality Union, which adopts the Rochdale Principles, adding mutual aid and self-help.
1896
The Union and Defense of Monts de Pietat is established, which will later become the Federation of Mutualities of Catalonia.
1898
The first assembly of Catalan cooperatives is held at La Bienhechora in Badalona, with thirty-seven delegates, where a regional committee is appointed.
1899 .
Creation of the La Redemptora brick-making cooperative, with kilns between Sants and Coll-blanc.
Pioneering Feats
1899
The First Catalan-Balearic Cooperative Congress is held at the Palace of Fine Arts in Montjuïc, with forty-eight entities, out of the one hundred and ten that existed, representing 6,943 families. The Catalan-Balearic Regional Chamber of Cooperatives is established, an economic coordinating body that confirms the birth of the cooperative movement and that will organize the first cooperative congresses in both Catalonia and the State.
First issue of the *Catalan Cooperative Magazine*, with the motto: "One for all, all for one," as the Chamber's expression organ. It is the first specific publication of the cooperative movement.
1902
Creation of the first rural credit unions in Valencian Country.
The Catalan cooperative movement gains international recognition by participating in the Congress of the International Co-operative and Labour Congress (ICL) in Manchester.
The La Regeneradora cooperative school is founded in Llagostera.
1903
Workers from the Dolcet factory establish the Mútua de Pa i Queviures de Manlleu cooperative. By 1929, it will have 305 associated families, and in 1936, as a result of a merger, it will reach 700 members. In a town of 7,000 inhabitants, this means that nearly half consume through the cooperative. In 1903, the Manresana Workers' Cooperative is also founded.
1905
The cooperative school of L'Avantguarda Obrera d'Horta is founded.
The Workers' Shelter in Sants is born as a completely collectivist experiment. It uses all its surplus to create collective and solidarity funds, with no individual returns to its members. In general, in the debate between individualist and collectivist entities, most consumer cooperatives opt for a mixed distribution.
1906
Promulgation of the Law of Agricultural Unions, which gives legal status to agrarian societies, which can be called cooperatives or unions.
The Barcelona Popular Pharmacies Cooperative Society is founded, an initiative by Joan Salas Anton that brings together about eighty consumer cooperatives and mutual aid societies. In 1914, it has 84,000 affiliates.
1911
Affordable housing legislation is enacted, which promotes the construction of about 700 cooperative homes and about 2,552 public housing units.
The Social Museum of Barcelona opens the Social Economy Exhibition, which receives 39,045 visitors. In 1913, it organizes the Co-operativism Exhibition, with the participation of about thirty consumer and production cooperatives from all over Catalonia.
1913
El Benestar de l'Obrer de Sants is established, one of the first Barcelona housing cooperative developments. It also has a consumer cooperative.
Cebrià de Montoliu, a proponent of municipal socialism, publishes the book *La Cooperación en la Ciudad Jardín*, in which he promotes housing cooperatives.
The First Spanish Congress of Cooperatives is held at the University of Barcelona, bringing together 255 entities from across the country. Despite expectations, no national federative body emerges from it.
1914
The Journalists' Cooperative is established in the La Salut neighborhood, one of the first Barcelona housing cooperative developments.
1915
Foundation of the Cadí Dairy Cooperative, a pioneer in the field of dairy production.
1916
The Cheap Housing Cooperative is established in the Sant Andreu del Palomar neighborhood, initiated by Eladi Gardó.
The Regional Chamber of Cooperatives approves the acceptance of women as full members of cooperatives, but the measure remains on paper.
The Chamber of Cooperatives of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands supports the general strike against the rising cost of living, called by the UGT and the CNT.
1917
The Suria Union of Cooperators, a consumer cooperative, is founded.
1919
The Catalan Mancomunidad creates Agrarian Social Action to promote cooperativism as a means of organizing rural society.
1920
Foundation of the Pallars Cooperative, a pioneer in the field of dairy production.
Establishment of the new Federation of Cooperatives of Catalonia, replacing the old Chamber. The Canadenca Strike and the cooperatives' support for the workers weaken them financially but earn them social prestige and new members.
The Federation of Cooperatives of Catalonia, chaired by Eladi Gardó, joins the International Co-operative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) as a full member.
1921
The second law on cheap housing is enacted, which provides that the state will lend 70% of the construction cost, and housing is built in Sabadell, Terrassa, Lleida, Manlleu and Mataró.
On January 8, the police raided the L'Empar de L'Obrer cooperative, on the grounds that it was "contributing to the various trade unions and that prominent unionists were meeting there."
1923
The Federation of Cheap Housing Cooperatives of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands is established.
The International Co-operative and Labour Congress establishes Co-operative Day in response to the Great War, caused by inter-imperialist economic competition. A year later, it is already celebrated in Catalonia by cooperatives such as La Flor de Maig, La Dignitat, L'Economia Obrera, and the Model of the 20th Century, and in towns such as Mataró, Vic, Roda, Vilanova, and Falset.
1924
Participation of Catalan cooperativism in the International Exhibition of Ghent, Belgium.
The cooperative school L'Empar de l'Obrer de Sants is founded.
1925
The Cooperatista Cultural Association is established, formed by numerous Cultural Groups that, responding to the need for workers to also achieve cultural emancipation, have been formed in consumer cooperatives throughout the country.
1926
On July 4, the 3rd Cooperation Festival is held in Montjuïc. Organized by the Barcelona cooperatives, thousands of people attend, including 2,718 children of cooperators, who are brought to the gathering in 37 "auto-omnibuses."
Consumer cooperative mergers accelerate under the concept of a "single cooperative" or "unions of cooperators," such as the Barcelonesa Cooperator Union, the Fort Pienc Cooperators' Union, or the Mataró Cooperators' Union, a merger of five Mataró entities.
1927
The cooperative schools La Flor de Maig and L'Econòmica de Barcelona are founded.
1928
The National Federation of Cooperatives of Spain is established. Its first president is the Catalan Joan Ventosa i Roig, president of the Federation of Cooperatives of Catalonia since 1922 and a member of the central committee of the International Co-operative and Mutual Societies' Alliance.
1929
III National Congress of Cooperatives. Catalan cooperativism participates in the Barcelona International Exhibition with the Cooperation Stand.
La Flor de Maig accepts women as full members for the first time.
In 1929, the National Federation of Cooperatives of Spain joins the International Co-operative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) as a full member.
1931
The cooperative school of the Forn del Vidre (Mataró Glassworks) is founded.
Boom of cooperativism during the Second Republic
Adoption of the first Spanish Cooperatives Law, which includes the requirement to establish reserve funds.
The Union of Agricultural Unions of Catalonia is created, an association of agricultural cooperatives made up mainly of middlemen and small landowners.
1932
With the approval of the Statute of Autonomy, Catalonia gains jurisdiction over cooperation. The Superior Council of Cooperation is created and the Bases Law of Cooperation (1934) is approved, which, recognizing cooperatives, mutual societies, and agricultural unions, becomes one of the first European social economy laws.
The Union of Cooperators of Gavà is founded by the workers of the Roca Radiators company.
The Women's Cooperative Propaganda Association is founded, bringing together more than 40 women's groups from cooperatives across Catalonia. Notable among them are women such as Micaela Chalmeta, Maria Palomera, Dolors Abelló, Àngela Graupera, and Empar Coloma.
The cooperatives have 1,200 types of their own currency in circulation to conduct internal financial transactions.
1933
Creation of the Sub-Federation of Production and Work Cooperatives of Catalonia. Two years later, it becomes an independent federation separate from the consumer organizations, grouping 125 cooperatives and 8,000 workers.
Regional Federations of cooperatives are organized in Manresa, the Levant Coast (Mataró), Baix Llobregat, Igualada, Tarragona, and Girona, and later the Local Federation of Barcelona and the regional ones of Vallès and Lleida. The powerful Regional Federation of Cooperatives of Vic, active since 1924, was the first to anticipate this regionalization.
1934
On March 22, the Official Bulletin of the Generalitat publishes the first Catalan Law on Cooperatives, which recognizes their types: consumer cooperatives (for groceries, transportation, popular lodging and restaurants, water or electricity supplies, education, health services...); production and labor; credit and integral and mixed.
Radio Association of Catalonia, founded 10 years earlier, is transformed into a cooperative.
Creation of the Agricultural and Cooperative Credit Box by the Generalitat of Catalonia, for credit operations with agricultural unions, rural credit boxes, cooperatives of various kinds, mutualities, maritime savings banks, and similar entities. The funds come from an endowment from the Generalitat, from contributions by cooperative, mutual, or agricultural union entities, from demand and term deposits, and from the issuance of debt instruments.
1935
The Pau i Justícia cooperative school of Poblenou is founded.
The Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia is founded, bringing together all branches of the movement: consumer, production and labor, agricultural, fishermen, health, credit, electric, housing, and transport.
1936
An estimated 241 production and labor cooperatives exist with 84,300 members, 75 cooperatives and 56,582 more members than just 5 years earlier.
With the outbreak of the war and the revolution, it was decreed that, as cooperatives are an "economic formula of collective interest," the Generalitat government would intervene in the operation of all production and consumption cooperatives, agricultural unions, and mutualities, and these entities would remain under the direct control of the Superior Council of Cooperation.
On September 6, the Barcelona Cooperators' Union is created, merging 45 cooperatives and 65 branches. During the war, the Barcelona Cooperators' Union reaches 93,000 associated families, spread across 93 branches.
Productes Coop is created, merging the cooperative industries of coal, soup base, soap, carbonated water, and chocolate, among others.
Creation of the Union of Cooperator Youths of Catalonia. Its central organ, Tremp, spreads revolutionary cooperativism. One of its members, the milician Elissa Garcia, from the Andreuenca, dies fighting on the Aragon front at the age of 19.
1937
Terrassa is the first city to cooperatize commerce, through the Terrassa Union of Cooperators, and is followed by Granollers and Badalona. Cooperativism is part of the New Catalan Economy, which, with the collectivization of industry or the municipalization of land, promotes "the intensification of the cooperative system in the distribution of products."
1938
Across Catalonia, the cooperative movement brings together 559 consumer entities, which supply food and essential goods to 2,657,000 people.
The Franco era: defeat of the old cooperativism and birth of the new
1939
Abolition of cooperative legislation and confiscation of the assets of hundreds of Catalan consumer, agricultural, and production cooperatives. Dissolution of the Barcelona Union of Cooperators, all second-level structures, and the Catalan federations of cooperatives. Political purging of the governing bodies of the surviving cooperatives. Exile of the leaders of the Catalan cooperative movement and thousands of rank-and-file cooperators.
1942
Approval of the Spanish Cooperatives Law, which incorporates them into the Sindical Cooperation Work. It is a restrictive, vertical, and interventionist law. The board of directors can be elected by the assembly, but it requires the approval of the vertical union. A supervisory board is established, and the local union delegate can attend and even preside over the general assemblies. The president is now called a "jefe" (leader), thus breaking with the cooperative philosophy.
The International Co-operative and Rural Workers' Union expels Spanish cooperativism from its membership as a consequence of the Francoist Ley de Cooperación (Cooperation Law), which requires new cooperative bodies, such as the Territorial Unions of Cooperatives (UTECO), to be governed by a head appointed by the Obra Sindical de la Cooperación, whose members must be members of the Spanish Falange and have an priest appointed by the bishop attached to them. This law perverts the cooperative principles, eradicates cooperative autonomy, and establishes all kinds of discretionary administrative interventions.
1951
Returning from exile, Albert Pérez Baró, along with other cooperativists, founded the Center for Cooperative Studies to train new "cooperative militants" and "spread the basic doctrines of cooperativism, the history, and the current achievements of cooperation." The Center was closed eleven months later by the Franco authorities.
1961
The book *El moviment cooperatiu a Catalunya* is published in Catalan, with texts by Joan Ventosa i Roig from his Mexican exile and by Pérez Baró.
1962
The Obrera de Viviendas Cooperative is established in El Prat de Llobregat.
1963
The Cooperative City of Sant Boi de Llobregat is initiated.
1966
Cooperative schools unite around the Rosa Sensat Teachers' Association.
1968
Foundation of Abacus, a consumer cooperative linked to the pedagogical renewal movement.
1970
Foundation of Coop 70 in Caldes de Montbui.
1971
Drac Màgic is created, a pioneering feminist cooperative dedicated to women's audiovisual culture. The feminist wave drives initiatives such as the Manresa Family Planning Cooperative (1981), Titània-Tascó for the self-management of health (1985), and Tamaia-Living Without Violence (1993).
1973
The Jeroni de Moragas Workshop is founded, a pioneer of social-initiative cooperatives that provide services to the most vulnerable groups. A year later, L'Olivera and the Barcelona Workshop School are born.
1974
Foundation of the Cooperative Society of Sanitary Assistance Facilities (SCIAS), a cooperative of users and consumers that will later manage the Hospital de Barcelona.
Death of Franco and resurgence of the Catalan cooperative movement
1975
The Bon Pastor Workers' Cooperative is founded. In its bylaws, it states that it is based on self-management, "which is founded on the social ownership of the means of production and distribution and on the direct management of the workers."
1976
The Gregal Cooperative is founded in the Besòs neighborhood of Barcelona as an autonomous school.
The Roca i Galès Foundation is founded, dedicated to promoting cooperativism. Its existence allows for the democratic reorganization of all branches of cooperativism. It publishes the magazine Cooperació Catalana and founds the Ventosa i Roig Library, established with volumes and documents donated from the private library of the illustrious Catalan cooperativist, becoming a reference center for cooperativism and the social economy.
The Union of Teaching Cooperatives of Catalonia is established, advocating for the conversion of teaching cooperatives into public schools.
1977
First issue of the magazine Bicicleta, published by the libertarian cooperative of the same name, which promotes environmentalism, anarcho-syndicalism, and community experiences.
1979
Linked to environmentalism, experiences such as the first cooperative of consumers of agroecological products in Catalonia, El Brot de Reus, or the engineering cooperative specializing in renewable energy, Ecotècnia (1981), a pioneer in the construction of wind turbines, were born.
The Col·lectiu Ronda, due to its relationship with the assembly-based labor movement (Roca, Numax, etc.), adopts—after initial reservations—"the promotion of cooperativism as a form of worker self-management and self-organization."
1980
Spurred on by the Ministry of Labor, the first 'Jornades sobre la Cooperació a Catalunya' (Journées on Cooperation in Catalonia) are held in Barcelona, where a hundred experts debate the doctrinal foundations of cooperativism and proposals for new cooperative legislation. The second is held in Lleida in 1993.
The First Hotel Cooperativism Days are held. One hundred Catalan hotels organize into a cooperative of shared hospitality services.
1981
The new Federation of Consumer and User Cooperatives of Catalonia is established. In 2022, its member cooperatives group 2,718,567 consumer and/or user member-owners, employ 5,085 worker member-owners and 1,196 employees, and have annual revenues of 1.174 billion euros.
In the midst of an economic crisis, the industrial cooperative Mol-Matric is born to respond to the closure of the company Talleres Alá and to continue the jobs. Other industrial companies will be recovered by the workers under cooperative self-management.
1983
The Cooperative Law of Catalonia is approved, in effect until 2002.
The Federation of Cooperative Work Associations of Catalonia (FCTAC) is established.
The Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Catalonia is founded, which in 2024 brings together 231 cooperatives, with more than 76,500 members.
1984
From the labor struggle of couriers, the Trèvol cooperative is born, the first eco-courier service in Catalonia and the State, using bicycles and electric vehicles. It participates in the Ecologist and Alternative Network and the Clot Self-Management Center, the epicenter of the emerging alternative cooperativism.
The new Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia is created, which will bring together the six existing cooperative federations: agricultural, labor, consumer and user, education, housing, and services.
1985
The Generalitat de Catalunya creates the Institute for the Promotion and Training of Cooperatives, to organize courses on cooperativism, conferences, seminars, and studies on cooperativism, as well as to train technicians for the management of cooperative enterprises. The State promotes job creation policies, such as the capitalization of unemployment benefits for the promotion of self-employment and cooperatives.
1987
The Spanish Cooperatives Law is approved.
1988
El Rebost is founded in Girona, one of Catalonia's first organic consumer cooperatives. In 1993, Germinal is founded in Barcelona, also dedicated to organic consumption.
1991
The Esplash cooperative is founded, linked to the Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation, the Lliure el Sol School, and Esplais Catalans. Through various mergers, it becomes the Incoop cooperative.
1992
Món Verd, a cooperative for the distribution of organic products, is founded.
1993
The first Cooperative Self-Management Days are held, featuring cooperatives like Arç and Trèvol. New editions are held in 1995 and 1997.
1994
The Sectorial of Cooperatives of Social Initiative is born, made up of cooperatives dedicated to the field of personal care and not-for-profit.
1995
From the struggle of the Bruguera workers, and the collective fund they create to promote self-employment projects, Coop57 is born as a cooperative of ethical and solidarity financial services.
1997
The publication of the magazine Nexe, journals of self-management and cooperative economy, begins. Initially, it focuses on cooperative theory and introduces the Latin American proposals for the Solidarity Economy.
1999
Merger of the Federation of Associated Work Cooperatives of Catalonia (FCTAC) and the Autonomous Federation of Catalan Associated Work Cooperatives (FACCTA), resulting in the new Federation of Work Cooperatives of Catalonia, which is born to promote work cooperatives and cooperativism in general, as well as to promote "processes that incorporate the values of democracy and self-management into business and the economy."
Boost for cooperativism and the Social and Solidarity Economy as a whole
2002
Law 18/2002, of July 5, on cooperatives in Catalonia, is approved.
2003
Several Catalan cooperatives promote the creation of the Catalan Network for the Solidarity Economy (XES). Defining the solidarity economy as "an expression of self-management and self-determination in the economic sphere," it encourages the creation of a "social market" among alternatives for production, consumption, exchange, or financing.
2008
The XES, then made up of 60 cooperatives and solidarity economy associations, publishes the Decalogue Against the Crisis, with proposals in different economic sectors and reminding us that "the self-organization of workers has often led to the recovery of companies by the workers, in cooperative form."
2009
The Cooperative Neighborhood Project is born, promoted by the Federation of Work Cooperatives of Catalonia and La Ciutat Invisible. The Day of Cooperation is revived in Barcelona, with a celebration at Cotxeres de Sants.
2010
Som Energia is born to promote a change in the energy model and begins to market and produce renewable energy.
2011
The iconic Cafè de Mar building in Mataró returns to cooperative hands, becoming the headquarters of the Mataró Union of Cooperators Foundation and a space for numerous initiatives linked to the Union of Cooperators.
The ECOS Group is established and opens one of the first Catalan cooperative hubs on Casp Street in Barcelona, where numerous cooperatives and ESS entities are located.
In the squares occupied by the 15M movement across the country, cooperative and solidarity economy alternatives are introduced.
2012
With the support of the XES, the first Fair of the Social and Solidarity Economy of Catalonia is born, held in the Sant Andreu neighborhood.
2013
Pam a Pam is created, the map that geolocates the points of the Catalan social and solidarity economy.
2014
Som Connexió is born to promote a change of model in the telecommunications sector.
The Solidarity Economy Network drafts a proposal for a Law on Social and Solidarity Economy of Catalonia. In response to the new municipalist political cycle, the 14 Measures for Local Economic Democracy are developed.
2015
A new Cooperatives Law is approved, Law 12/2015, of July 9.
Som Mobilitat is born to promote a change of model in the mobility sector.
The Network of Municipalities for the CSS is born, led by the new Commissioner for Cooperative, Social and Solidarity Economy and Consumer Affairs of the Barcelona City Council. The city councils of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sabadell, and Badalona are its co-founders.
The Sants Cooperative Initiative is launched, which will bring together about thirty work, consumer, and housing cooperatives and, together with the Prat de Llobregat solidarity economy, will promote the practice of "local cooperative ecosystems" as an alternative for territorial economic development.
2016
The General Directorate of Social Economy and Cooperatives of the Generalitat de Catalunya promotes the Cooperative Hubs, territorial devices for the creation of cooperatives, as well as a series of public policies to promote the Social and Solidarity Economy that encourage public-cooperative co-production with hundreds of economic and social agents.
AlumnesCoop is established, the federation that brings together the student cooperatives created in educational centers in Catalonia. It is an initiative promoted by EscolesCoop with the support of the Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia.
2017
The Social Economy Association of Catalonia is born, a fourth-level organization in which the Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia participates alongside the other organizations of the social economy.
The Coop57 Foundation and Som Energia create the Social Germinator, a platform to finance just energy transition projects.
2018
The residents of La Borda, a housing cooperative that spreads the new Right-to-Use Model, move in. Sostre Cívic, an association since 2004 and a cooperative since 2010, promotes and implements the model with numerous developments throughout the country.
2019
The first Migrant and Diverse Economy Fair is held, organized by Coòpolis's Circle for Migrations and Anti-Racist Economy. The formation of cooperatives by migrant and racialized people grows.
La Insòlita, a network of feminist cooperatives, is created.
The Rural Social and Solidarity Economy Festival is born, promoted by regional solidarity economy networks from Ripollès, Garrotxa, and the Pyrenees-Aran, and cooperative centers like Coopcamp (Tarragona) and Ponent Coopera (Lleida).
The Valls Cooperative Ecosystem is born, an association of about ten cooperatives that act as an agent for economic development and urban revitalization in the historic center of Valls.
The Cooperative Fund for the Social and Solidarity Emergency is created, where dozens of ESS organizations work to provide financial support to collective projects that are facing the pandemic.
2019-2020
The Pact for an Economy for Life is born, where, in the face of the consequences of COVID-19, the Catalan ESS proposes a new economic model for Catalonia, based on a plural, transformative economy that plans for "economic democracy and the ecosocial transition of the entire Catalan economy."
2020
The Catalan government approves the Bases of the law on social and solidarity economy, an initiative to establish a regulatory framework that recognizes the Catalan social and solidarity economy and its commitment to transforming the economy.
2021
The Ter Museum recovers the history of cooperativism in Central Catalonia.
2022
From 2016 to 2022, 46% more cooperatives were created in Catalonia than in the previous seven years. This increase brings the total number of Catalan cooperatives to 4,566. Thus, Catalonia leads the ranking for cooperativism in Spain in terms of the number of initiatives, accounting for 19% of the national total.
Meeting of Local Energy Communities from the Osona region, most of which are cooperatives. In June, the Santpere Sustainable Energy Cooperative (COSPES), Balenyà Sustainable, Olost and the Holy Cross Sustainable, and Taradell Sustainable (TARSOS) form the second-degree cooperative Osona Energy.
2023
The Ágora Fair of the Social and Cooperative Economy of the Ebro Delta is held in Ulldecona.
Organized by the North Barcelonès Cooperative Hub at the former headquarters of the La Bienechora cooperative, a "wikimarathon" is held to add content about cooperativism to Wikipedia.
Coopcat organizes the first edition of the Summer University of Cooperativism (UESCOOP).
2024
BLOC4 opens its doors, a 4,500-square-meter public-cooperative space dedicated to strengthening cooperativism and the ESS. Financed by the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya, and framed within the ESS BCN 2030 Strategy, Bloc 4 is an entity in which the Confederation of Cooperatives of Catalonia, the Federation of Work Cooperatives of Catalonia, and the Coòpolis Association – Cooperative Athenaeum hold a stake.
Celebration of the 125th anniversary of the organized cooperative movement, with a "People. Planet. Purpose" campaign represented in 4 murals created by Reskate and located in Valls, Maldà, Palafrugell, and Mataró. The cooperative movement celebrates the 125th anniversary of the first Congress of Cooperativism, which took place in 1899 and led to the creation of the first inter-sectoral, national representative entity.
This timeline was prepared for the Catalan Confederation of Cooperatives by the Catalan Cooperativism Congress.
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