Take aways frome the Coworking Europe 2012
Within this conference, different viewpoints from different regions were observed. Within France, coworking is continuing to grow but there is a strong need to become more international while cooperating and sharing spaces more efficiently.
Within Canada, coworker leader Ashley described her efforts in Toronto. Volunteers and individualistic projects are done on ones own initiative. Also, health and benefits programs have been created to protect the rights of the coworkers. In addition, coworking passports have been created to enable individuals to travel to various locations, being able to work in different environments.
The Manifesto of Coworking and the coworking visa programs are ways to further the progress of coworking. One of the most important values of coworking is the idea of successfully working together. Having a reliable structure and a legitimate set of rules helps regulate the programs. Exchange platforms are also extremely important. By choosing different projects and having the ability to host coworkers, ideas are more easily shared and relationships are successfully built through bonding. Unfortunately, many locations face their own problems. Some places are lacking time while other places lack the ability to distribute information and retain resources.
2020 is a future project for the coworking community. The main goals are continuing to discover great ideas and also to foster creative industries.
Via http://coworking.lafonderie-idf.fr/
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Barcelona is on the verge of becoming the city with the highest Coworking spaces density in the world.
According to representatives of the local Coworking scene, more than 100 spaces are already in operation across the Catalonia capital city.
Some spaces are big (MOB, CREC, Valkiria Hub Space,…). Some spaces are smaller. More are anyway to come (Utopic_Us Barcelona, Bethaus Bercelona…)
Nowadays, Coworking is part of the urban landscape in Barcelona. To say the least…
While walking around the city, one will observe that Coworking spaces popping up literally at every street corner. 
The Barcelona Coworking boom is fueled by the crisis situation that Spain is facing. A lot of dynamic graduated an experience knowledge workers have no other choices than start up a company or create their own job. To join a Coworking space is the obvious first step for many in this breed of entrepreneurs and freelancers, boosting accordingly the demand for more seats.
Barcelona will definitely be the Coworking capital of Europe in 2013.
Last week, the Coworking Spain Conference 2013 has gathered more than 220 attendees in Barcelona. The event was a huge success.
And next fall (11-13 november), the Coworking Europe Conference 2013 will be hosted in the Catalonia capital. More than 300 attendees are expected, form more than 30 countries in Europe and beyond.
The Early bird registration is open here
Don’t wait too long. The number of available is tickets is limited
