Regional competition for the creation of cooperative enterprises

The registration deadline has expired.

You are an entrepreneur, student, employee, researcher, job seeker..., residing in Occitania, having a cooperative business creation project (SCOP or SCIC) or having created your cooperative after January 1, 2018?

Try to win one of the 4 prizes at stake!

Eligibility criteria

Collective project - entrepreneurial capacities of project leaders - economic model - development potential (job creation project) - social utility.

The prizes

The competition, with €4,000 in prizes, rewards projects in four categories:

- Young Entrepreneurs Award: for projects (in creation or already installed) carried out by young people aged 18 to 35.

- Women's Entrepreneurship Award: for projects (in creation or already installed) carried out by women entrepreneurs.

- Young shoots prize: for cooperative companies under 2 years old (created after 01/01/2018).

In addition to these three prizes, the Public Prize will be added, which will be voted live by the audience at the prize-giving ceremony. The non-award winning finalists will pitch their project live and the audience will vote for their favourite.

Each prize will be accompanied by a "cooperative plus" in the form of a service offered by cooperatives located in our territory (Yokwé Films; Com'3elles; Théâtre du Grand Rond) and by the Confédération Générale des Scop.

Calendar of events

Registration dates: Monday, November 4 to Friday, December 6, 2019 midnight

Pre-selection of files: from 9 to 18 December 2019

Announcement of finalists: December 19, 2019

Training days: 16 January 2020: The CANVAS Business Model (9:30-12:30)

Learn to pitch your project (1 day in January 2020)

Hearing of the candidates before the final jury: end of January 2020

Award Ceremony: February 2020

This competition organized by the Regional Union of Scop Occitania - Pyrenees, a structure to support the creation, takeover and transfer of businesses in cooperatives. The objective? Support cooperative business creation projects in Occitania but also enhance the value of cooperatives already established.

Meet-up, conferences, practical information

Union Régionale des Scop Occitanie - Pôle Pyrénées

Parc Technologique du Canal - 3 rue Ariane 31520 RAMONVILLE - SAINT-AGNE

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