SKOOPI is the Swedish organisation that takes interest in social cooperatives. The members are social cooperatives. By supplying and supporting the social enterprises with education and adequate information frequently, the social cooperatives in Sweden are well organized.

Social cooperatives are enterprises were the members are people who have difficulties getting employments in the traditional labour market – ex-prisoners, ex-drug users, long-time unemployed, and so on. The cooperatives are own by there members. Each member has one vote each.

Starting social cooperatives gives people with different disabilities an opportunity to implement to the labour market and become recourses to the society
– instead of burdens.

SKOOPI serves as an important organisation that can put pressure to the authorities to improve there support to the social cooperatives.

For more information about SKOOPI or social cooperatives, please call Annica Falk,
+46 (0) 8 32 72 30 or mail: info@skoopi.coop