Osuuskunta goes on the road (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

• The student has a good overview and understanding of co-operative activities and the co-operative as a form of enterprise.
• The student understands what operating in a co-operative means in practice.
• The student has a good overview of the stages of establishing a co-operative.
• The student recognises the opportunities created by co-operatives to commercialise one’s own competence and employ oneself.
• The student is motivated to work in teams with people from different fields and backgrounds.

Content

• Principles of co-operative activities
• The power of working together – The co-operative as a team/community business
• Establishing a co-operative
• The co-operative as a means of employment – employing oneself in a co-operative
• Commercialising one’s own competence as products/services
• Creating contacts (marketing and sales)
• Co-operative business operations and revenue logic
• Working in multidisciplinary teams

Materials

The course material is mainly compiled from online materials on the basis of instructions from the instructors. Moilanen H., Peltokoski J., Pirkkalainen J. & Toivanen T.: Uusi osuuskunta – Tekijöiden liike

Completion alternatives

Participation in the course’s eight (8) face-to-face learning sessions (co-operative information session and visits) and learning tasks completed in multidisciplinary groups. Writing a final reflections paper at the end of the course, and a group feedback discussion based on the reflections.

Student workload

Total 82.5 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Presence control, active participation, task fulfillment.

Qualifications

-

Further information

The course is organised in close collaboration between the University of Jyväskylä, JAMK University of Applied Sciences and Jyväskylä Educational Consortium as part of the shared entrepreneurship studies of the educational institutions, which are in the pilot phase. The new type of co-operation between educational institutions is supported by the Yrittäjyys yhdistää (“entrepreneurship unites”) project funded by the Regional Council of Central Finland.