BMWK & ESF Plus
Funding through the “Nachhaltig Wirken” and “REACT with impact” programmes.
About us
Who we are
As a team, we have very different focuses, but we all want the same thing: A sustainable economy in which the interests of people & nature are at the center. Since our founding in 2019, we have been working together as a worker coop towards this goal.
Mission
Redistributing ownership and power in the digital economy
We design and support cooperative systems that redistribute ownership and participation across digital and analogue economies. Our work connects founding platform cooperatives, cooperative business succession (workers’ buyouts) and cooperative finance – driven by the conviction that a fair, democratic and common-good economy is possible.
The people
The team of Platform Coops eG
Founders, team and cooperative partners – the people behind the cooperative.
Network
Network & partners
We work with funders, networks and partner organisations of the cooperative and social economy.
SEND e.V.
Social Entrepreneurship Network Germany.
Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e.V.
Partner in the Social Economy Berlin project.
IfU Institut
We are a founding member of the Institute for Corporate Democracy and support it as a practice partner.
Verbund Kooperatives Wirtschaften
We are a founding partner of the VKW: representation of the social and solidarity economy in Germany.
#GenoDigital
Initiative for the digital cooperative movement.
INQA
We are part of the 'Initiative New Quality of Work' (INQA) and advise companies on the path to a future-oriented corporate culture.
Social Entrepreneurship City Hamburg
We jointly develop strategies for P2P financing.
Consulting
Funding Programmes
In these contexts, we have been offering consulting services since 2021.
2024–2027
Coops Digital + / Nachhaltig Wirken
Strategically building an ecosystem of cooperatives and platform co-ops: short consultations, knowledge transfer, community and climate check-ins.
2023
Coops Digital / REACT with impact
Making cooperatives known as a legal form for founding, and informing, advising and connecting cooperative-minded founders.
2021-2025
Social Economy Berlin
Free pre-founding and founding advice for social-economy companies in Berlin – with SEND and Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin.
2020–2021
Platform Coops Innovation Network
Founded by pioneers of the platform-coop movement and funded through the BMWi’s IGP programme.
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