Within the scope of our Project ToBeCoop – Territorial Organizations Boosting Eu-Turkish COOPeratives, the first session of 10 workshops to be held for capacity building for cooperatives in our region has started today. The following topics will be included in the first session workshops to be held by Italian experts between 21.02.2022 and 25.02.2022. 21.02.2022

Within the scope of our project, we finished the analysis to examine and report the institutional structures of the cooperatives established in the Rize-Artvin region. • The Cooperative Capacity Analysis Research Report of Rize Province• The Cooperative SWOT Analysis Research Report of Rize Province• The Research Report on Factors that Affect Youth’s Establishment of Cooperatives

Within the scope of our project, we started the analysis to examine and report institutional structures of the cooperatives established in the Rize-Artvin region. The analysis aims to strengthen the cooperative structures and to create new synergies for cooperatives in the region to carry out joint studies.

Within the scope of our project, a service procurement tender, the conditions of which are stated in the Annex, will be held. Related institutions can send their documents to goktugdalgic@hotmail.com until 26.06.2021 at 24:00. ANNEX : http://tobecoop.coop/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ToR_Research-and-Assessment-report-on-coop.docx

Our project ‘Territorial Organizations Boosting Eu-Turkish COOPeratives’ and the Kickoff meeting of the Project were widely featured in the local press. https://www.sondakika.com/haber/haber-ab-projesi-acilis-toplantisi-yapildi-14209502/ https://www.haberler.com/ab-projesi-acilis-toplantisi-yapildi-14209502-haberi/ http://www.olay53.com/haber/ab-projesi-acilis-toplantisi-rizede-yapildi-827112.htm http://www.10martgazetesi.com.tr/Haber/Rizede-AB-Projesi-Acilis-Toplantisi-Yapildi-1251.html

We thank you, all the participants at the meeting, their contribution is fundamental to the implementation of the project. Thanks to the Union of Fishery Cooperative of Rize for the intervention about the status and great progress of the fishery cooperatives. Thanks to the contribution of the Union of Credit Cooperatives of Rize for giving