Community

A Community of Practice (CoP) will be set up around the topic of teaching cooperative business. The CoP is a virtual and off-line community of teachers, cooperative professional and cooperative business experts who will pursue learning through engagement in social practice and “learning from each other”. CoP is a group of people “who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis ” (Wenger, McDermott and Snyder (2002). The CoP will see the participants actively involved in developing better practices and tools for their teaching through continuous knowledge exchanges and international coaching circles, which will fuel their passion for the topic. In order to build up the community, the project will foresee both off-line and on-line space for CoP to cooperate. The CoP will be constituted of a ‘Core Group’ composed of partners’ representatives that will facilitate the work of the Community and promote the ‘recruitment’ of new members among the targets groups.