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“Events have been the main communication tool to increase coworking awareness in Istanbul”

Jun 11, 2018 | Coworking Europe

Kolektif House is born in 2015. The Turkey based operator depicts itself as "More than a co-working space : a platform for creators who love what they do and believe in the power of sharing". Today, Kolektif House claims it connects 1300 freelancers, startups, investors, corporates and mid-size companies, in Istanbul. Ahmet is the co-founder of Kolektif House. The company operates two locations...

“In Spain, small coworking spaces have less to lose from the rise of big brands than medium size ones”

Jun 1, 2018 | Coworking Europe

Manuel Zea is the founder of CoworkingSpain.es and the organizer of the Coworking Spain Conference, one of the first national conference ever organized on coworking. Manuel saw coworking moving from a fragile new born to an industry on it's way to disrupt the traditional office market. As of today, Spain is still the country with the highest number of individual coworking space per capita. A few...

World tour takeaways : “Coworking is way more diverse in Europe than it is in Asia or in America”

May 28, 2018 | Coworking Europe

Pauline and Dimitar are the founders of Coworkies, a Berlin based company connecting like-minded professionals working out of coworking spaces and displaying job opportunities. For the last 2 years, they've been doing a coworking world tour. They visited 287 coworking spaces, in 30 cities around the world, with majority in Europe. They are sharing their main learnings and takeaways from an...

Talent Garden runs 23 coworking-campuses in Europe and re-invents education

May 23, 2018 | Coworking Europe

The Italian born Talent Garden counts, nowadays, among the major coworking brands operating in Europe. The Milan based company runs 23 "coworking-campuses" across Italy and the rest of Europe. Talent Garden was one of the first coworking operator to raise VC money in Europe, when coworking still was a tiny trend. Since then, the group has developed a strong education offering, making it...

“We believe we have an ideal Coworking model to be franchised”

Aug 28, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe

In France, the Trigano family is a close to a legend. Decades ago, Gilbert Trigano founded the worldwide famous 'Club Med' brand. In 2017, his grandson Jeremie is now walking in his shoes. Mama Works is a network of coworking spaces inspired by their experience in the hotel industry, especially with the Mama Shelter brand, a collection of designed by Philippe Starck hotels, with locations now in...

Paris coworking boom equally fuelled by independent and branded spaces

Jul 18, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe, Data

The maturation of the coworking market showcases a more and more perceivable split between two kind of players : well funded growing coworking brands, with a multi-location strategy, on the one hand locally rooted independent coworking spaces with a more focused identity and community, on the other hand. The pattern gets confirmed is a steadily growing number of metropoles around the globe...

London: The coworking market sees signs of a price war looming

Jun 23, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe

Hector Kolonas is the founder of Included.co, an online platform organising group purchases for a network of over 200 coworking communities in the world. The service helps the spaces to buy supplies and services at a discounted price, thanks to the generated volumes. As a London-based startup, which initially started to work with the London coworking ecosystem, Hector is ideally positioned to...

Ahoy! Berlin works on accommodating freelancers and corporations

May 15, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe

Ahoy! Berlin is a Berlin based space for coworking and innovation. The more than 4.000 m2 big space host now freelancers as well as sartups and corporations. Hi Stéphanie, can you introduce the Ahoy! Berlin project? What is it about? Our main goal is to create a dynamic yet sustainable community where people have the freedom to collaborate, to explore and to have fun. We stand behind the main 5...

A coworking Hub is re-branding rural Ireland thanks to the joined efforts of Ireland main digital players

Apr 27, 2017 | Coworking Europe

Skibbereen is a 3.000 inhabitants town located on the Southern coast of Ireland, in one of the most rural and remote areas of the country. In 2015, in order to re-create a dynamic of opportunities in the region, a range of major companies, associations, and public players joined forces to build up a platform supporting entrepreneurship, connected to one of the fastest broadband connection in...

Coworking spaces in the EU getting ready to welcome UK leaving companies #brexit

Apr 3, 2017 | Business, Coworking Europe

Last week at the Social Workplace Amsterdam 2017 Conference, Eduard Schaepman, CEO of Tribes, told the audience that 26 companies from the UK already reached out to them to prepare the partial transfer of their team and activity to the Dutch city. "London established companies are using the passport multi-location flexible office brands offer to commute between cities and prepare themselves up...