The ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research (CCR) in collaboration with the University of Newcastle (UoN) and with support from the ICA-EU Partnership (#Coops4Dev) and Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) had organized the 14th ICA-AP Cooperative Research Conference on “Cooperation among Cooperatives and Mutuals in the Asia-Pacific region” at the Faculty of Business and Law, the University of Newcastle, Australia in December 2019.

More than 100 participants from 12 countries viz. Australia (60), Fiji (1), India (19), Indonesia (2), Japan (2), Kiribati (2), South Korea (2), Malaysia (2), Nepal (4), New Zealand (4), Timore Leste (1) and United Kingdom (2) attended the conference. These included researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students, who shared their experiences on issues related to cooperation among cooperatives and mutuals and developed new networks and partnerships around cooperative research and education.

The research sessions provided an opportunity for academia to present over 52 papers to the delegates. The presentations showcased the vast diversity of research on cooperatives in the Asia Pacific region.

The research proceedings have been published and are available here