October 5, 2021
The Euro-Latin American University Network in Social and Cooperative Economics (RULESCOOP) celebrates its XIV International Congress on October 7 and 8 at the University of Almería (Spain). RULESCOOP is a network of European and Latin American universities that integrates consolidated research centers or groups in the social and solidarity economy. Its main objective is to establish different forms of collaboration in the area of social and solidarity economy in general and cooperativism in particular, in order to carry out teaching, research and university extension activities.
Under the slogan “Cooperative Identity: Enhancement of the Differential Elements of the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy”, the different presentations are structured around five thematic axes. The Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins international institute for cooperatives of HEC Montréal is going to present the research paper entitled “Are cooperatives an employment option for future graduates?” written by Inmaculada Buendía-Martínez and Carolina Hidalgo-Lopez. The study, based on a sample of 328 students from HEC Montréal, shows that the preference of students to work in a cooperative at the end of their training period is based on a particular profile that is the opposite to that of students who prefer to start their professional future in conventional companies.