The Iran Chamber of Cooperatives (ICC) is organising the first International Cooperative Congress in September 2023 in Tehran. The theme of the Congress will be “Production Growth and Sustainable Economy with Cooperative Development.” ICC is also organizing the first cooperative research conference and is inviting articles from interested researchers in the following areas:

Cooperatives and sustainable development

1-1- The role of cooperatives in environmental protection

1-2- The role of cooperatives in reducing poverty and empowering communities

1-3- The role of cooperatives in increasing food security and sustainable agricultural development

1-4- The role of cooperatives in job creation in local communities

2- Cooperatives and development of women's development

2-1- The cooperatives’ potential in women's economic participation

2-2- Introducing national and international best practice of women's cooperatives

3- Cooperatives and social justice

3-1- Cooperatives and social entrepreneurship

3-2- Cooperatives and economic participation of low income communities

3-3- The role of cooperatives in supplying and accessing low income communities to commodities

4- New financial tools in the cooperatives

4-1- The role of cooperatives in microfinancing

4-2- The role of cooperatives in financial and credit market development

4-3- Introduction of entrepreneurial financing methods in the cooperatives

5- Cooperatives and development of knowledge-based activities (platform)

5-1- Introducing national and international best practices of knowledge-based (platform) cooperatives

5-2- Increasing market penetration of knowledge-based (platform) cooperatives

6- Cooperatives and productivity

6-1- Cooperatives’ potential in clustering economic activities and decreasing production costs

6-2- Cooperatives’ potential in the value chain of goods and services

6-3- Skill training in the international principles of cooperatives

6-4- The role of cooperatives in improving business environment

7- Cooperatives and governmental optimization

7-1- Cooperatives’ potential in conferring government authorities

7-2- cooperatives’ potential in performing public-private partnership (PPP) projects.

Interested participants can submit their abstracts latest by 27 June 2023 at irancon2023@icccoop.ir. The deadline to submit full articles/ papers is 15 July 2023.

Best articles will be published in the Scientific and Research Quarterly of Cooperative and Agriculture and will be awarded valuable cash prizes.