Abstract
The project Interreg IV Italy-Austria ID-Coop “Identità e cooperativismo in territori di insediamento di minoranze storico-linguistiche/Identität und Genossenschaftswesen im Siedlungsgebiet historischer Sprachminderheiten” (Identity and cooperatives in historical linguistic minorities’ settlements) derives from the combination of two different concepts and realities, which share the same sense of solidarity and unity: the linguistic minorities and cooperative enterprises.