Les coopératives d’activités et d’emploi : accompagner autrement pour entreprendre autrement

The aim of this article is to present business and employment cooperatives as the social and solidarity economy’s response to the problem of supporting new businesses. These cooperatives provide an original way of supporting new businesses by giving collective entrepreneurs the security as employees. Based on empirical work conducted among several cooperatives, the article describes who their target groups are, what they are seeking, what they get, and the educational role played by the cooperatives in making members more aware of the social and solidarity economy.