Our background

1986

The Cultura division of Codess Sociale was founded

Codess Cultura worked to protect, preserve and promote Italy's artistic, historic and environmental heritage, working alongside public and private organisations in northern and central Italy.

1990

Pierreci was founded

Specialising in communications and technology for Cultural Assets, for many years the company provided integrated services in Italy’s top museums and archaeological sites.

2010

CoopCulture was founded

The merger between Pierreci and Codess Cultura led to the creation of our cooperative, which began by integrating two successful business models.

2011

Ethics Committee

The independent Ethics Committee elected democratically by shareholders and employees is established, with the aim of promoting positive actions to improve the corporate system and to support employees in monitoring the Social Responsibility Policy and the Charter of Ethics.

2013

Ceca Best Practice Award

CoopCulture is awarded the CECA Best Practice Award, the international award of the ICOM Committee for Cultural Education. The award is presented in recognition of the Roma Caput Mundi project, a journey into the past to rediscover the origins of integration.

2016

CoopCulture in Brussels

The cooperative model for the sustainable development of European cultural heritage: CoopCulture presents its 2015 Sustainability Report to the European Parliament.

2017

Award for Best Report of Operations

CoopCulture wins the special "New entry miglior bilancio d’esercizio Quadro Fedele 2017” award, a new recognition awarded by the jury for the best Report on Operations published by cooperatives competing for the award for the first time.

2018

Copat merges with CoopCulture

The merger of two historic cultural cooperatives: Copat, founded in Milan and Turin in the 1980s, merges with CoopCulture, bringing the number of shareholders to 1,100.

2018

Palermo event

Culture and cooperation ', a combination that well crosses the principles of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and the 17 goals of sustainable development. In Palermo the results of CoopCulture in the 2017 Sustainability Report and an in-depth analysis with the Hon. Silvia Costa, president of the Culture and Education Commission of the European Parliament (2014-2017) and Enrico Giovannini, ASVIS spokesperson.

"Il Sole 24 Ore" awards CoopCulture with the Industria Felix reward as "best female company with managerial performance and financial reliability" and "among the best companies for uninterrupted growth from 2007 to 2018". In the same year CoopCulture obtained 19th place in the ranking of 'best Italian companies to work for' in the cultural sector, drawn up by the Corriere Economia.