The Italian Institute for Studies on Co-operation "Luigi Luzzatti" is a forum for debate and study at the service of the co-operative movement.

The initiatives developed by the Luzzatti are aimed at promoting the principles and values of mutuality as well as at developing co-operative entrepreneurship as the real accomplishment of solidarity and economic democracy.

The Luzzatti operates in close collaboration and in agreement with both the Italian Directorate General of Co-operation (Minister of Economic Development) and the National Associations of the co-operative movement. In particular the Luzzatti aims are:

§ to promote increase and development of studies and research on historical, economic, social and law features about work and co-operation;

§ to organise meetings, debates and demonstrations in features of work and co-operation;

§ to maintain systematic relations with foreign similar institutes;

§ to patronise the realisation of studies and documents;

§ to promulgate awards for studies on features concerning co-operation;

§ to care about the diffusion of the co-operative principles also by organising courses for co-operators;

§ to realise initiatives intended to propagate the knowledge on doctrine and methods of co-operation by promoting specific lessons at the secondary schools, and even more so at the university;

§ to publish the Review of Co-operation; to form a specialised library of Italian and foreign reviews and books.