The Iran Chamber of Cooperatives organized the International Webinar on “Collective Entrepreneurship through Cooperatives” on February 9, 2021. Prominent speakers and cooperators from Iran and other countries including Spain, Japan, China, India, and Kenya participated in the webinar to share experiences from the fields of cooperatives and entrepreneurship.

The speakers included, Mr. Li Chunsheng, Chairman of ICA-AP; Mr. Balasubramanian Iyer, Regional Director of ICA-AP; Ms. Sifa, Regional Director of ICA-Africa; Mr. Bahman Abdollahi, President of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives (ICC); Mr. Hosseininia, Head of Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Tehran University; Mr. Rezaeinejad, CEO of Pishgaman Cooperative Group, Iran; Mr. Tarun Bhargava, IFFCO, India; Mr. Etxeberria-Otadui, Mondragon, Spain; and Mr. Osamu Nakano, JWCU, Japan.

The webinar was attended by more than 190 foreign and domestic audiences. It focused on the capacities of the cooperative movement and the cooperative business model for entrepreneurship and employment promotion and ultimately sustainable economic growth and development in the world.

Mr. Bahman Abdollahi concluded the webinar with the presentation of strategies for the development of entrepreneurship and job creation in the Iranian Cooperative Movement and other communities.