
ICBEC joined the 2023 Global Innovation Coop Summit that took place in Montréal, from September 27 to September 29. The panel “Digital Coop Education” was led by Claude-André Guillotte, Director of IRECUS, Department of Entrepreneurship, School of Management at the University of Sherbrooke (ICBEC member), along with Ilana Gotz, EURICE and ICBEC Secretariat, Italy; John Kay, CEO and Senior Instructor at Live Learning Labs, RealizeU, Canada; and Janielle Maxwell, Project Coordinator for the JEDDI Business Conversion Project, Canada. They delved into how cooperatives could leverage digital solutions to integrate cooperative business education into mainstream education. They also attempted to identify the promising strategies that could facilitate the diffusion of cooperative knowledge and highlighted the challenges preventing the cooperative model from becoming a common feature across various educational frameworks.