COpAPS Cooperativa Agricola e Sociale

Our mission is to achieve the social inclusion of people with disabilities and in difficulty through personalized paths, where work is both a source of well-being and self-esteem, and a means of social integration, in a sustainable agricultural environment and in a welcoming relational context and integration. We are an agricultural (productive, today type B) and social (type A) cooperative. We have been operating in the Bologna area for 40 years and we are considered among the pioneers of social agriculture in Italy. Since 1979 when we were established, we have been dealing with the inclusion of people in difficulty. At the time of our constitution, the laws to which we are subject today, such as Law 381/91, werent even in the pipeline, but our name already said who we are today. For 40 years we have been involved in accompanying young people with disabilities in education and training courses, in protected work and job placement, inside and outside the company, in agricultural, ...