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This handbook was initiated under the coordination and support action "User Engagement for Large Scale Pilots in the Internet of Things" (U4IoT) that provides online and offline toolkits, workshops and other forms of support to actively engage end-users in the Internet of Things (IoT) Large Scale Pilot (LSP) projects of European IoT-LSP programme. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation under grant agreement No 732078. The handbook describes the Co-Creative Workshop Methodology that is especially produced by Stembert Design for the Internet of Things (IoT) Large Scale Pilot (LSP) projects in the European IoT-LSP programme. The goal of the methodology is to bring together LSP partners, stakeholders and end-users to co-create solutions in a couple of hours. The Co-Creative Workshop Toolkit enables experts to empathise with the needs of end-users, whilst end-users are enabled to communicate on an expert level. Ideally this increases empathy within design and development teams, leading to more meaningful IoT-solutions. Four co-creative phases: Co-analysis, Co-design, Co-evaluation and Co-implementation are explained in this handbook together with practical information on how to organise, facilitate, analyse and document a Co-Creative Workshop. U4IoT supports the LSP projects to implement the Co-Creative Workshop Methodology into their projects and provides LSP partners with support to organise and facilitate Co-Creative Workshops.

Recently there has been renewed academic interest in co-operatives. In contrast, media accounts of co-operatives are relatively scarce, particularly, in the United Kingdom, where business reporting usually focuses on capitalist narratives, with alternatives routinely marginalised until a scandal pushes them into the public eye. This article analyses media coverage of the United Kingdom's Co-operative Bank (2011–2015), tracing its transformation from an unremarkable presence on the UK high street to preferred bidder for Lloyds Bank branches and its subsequent near collapse. The article charts changes in reporting and media interest in the bank through five discursive frames: member and customer service; standard financial reporting; human interest, personality-driven journalism; the public relations machine; and political coverage. Our analysis discusses three points: the politicisation of the story through covert and overt political values; simplification and sensationalism; and media hegemony. We argue that although moments of crisis provide an opening for re-evaluating the dominant reporting model, established frames tend to reassert themselves as a story develops. This produces good copy that reflects the interests of the publishers but does not extend understanding of co-operative organisations. Thus, the article identifies the role of the media in delegitimising organisations with alternative governance structures, thereby promoting ideological and economic conformity.

The Trend towards Concentration and Co‐operation among Public Undertakings, Free Collective‐Economy Undertakings, Co‐operatives and Undertakings in the Utility Housing Sector.

Confrontation in the form of strong public rhetoric, which led to speculations about possible conflict over Nile water resources has during recent years given way to a spirit of co-operation that is evolving into the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). While the initiative has made progress, serious challenges that could undermine such co-operation lie ahead.

Co-parents – individuals with dual parenting roles – are a growing group that early years practitioners need to be mindful of

Service user involvement is evolving from participation to co-production, where children, young people and families are active in the design and delivery so support is responsive to needs and fit for purpose