About the award
Cogeca’s European Award for Cooperative Innovation aims at recognising outstanding cooperative innovation in the agriculture, food, fishery and forestry sectors.
The award was presented in 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2017, and 2020. 2025 marks the launch of the sixth edition of the award. The award is an initiative to promote innovative practices, projects and/or services provided by cooperatives and boost innovation in the sectors.
Through innovation in the fields and categories chosen for each edition, the award ultimately aims to promote actions that:
- provide cooperative members with value;
- develop new markets;
- promote new products and services provided by European cooperatives.
The award also seeks to promote an exchange of best practices and knowledge transfer; and to encourage the qualitative development of innovation processes – all of this for the benefit of farmers, EU citizens and the environment.
