HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 17 (ACN) The 15th International Convention on Cooperativism (COOPERAT 2024) will be opened today at the Havana Convention Center, where six workshops and a forum with parallel programs will be held until Thursday.
The Center for Management, Local Development, Tourism and Cooperativism Studies (CE-GESTA), attached to the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Pinar del Rio “Hermanos Saiz Montes de Oca”, convened this event.
It is part of the road map towards the 6th World Forum on Local Economic Development, scheduled for April 1 to 4, 2025, in Seville, Spain.
The convention is sponsored by the Ministries of Agriculture and Tourism, the National Associations of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC) and Small Farmers (ANAP by its Spanish acronym), the National Institute of Economic Research, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nation