What COOPERATIVE OASIS does

Coopérative Oasis is a French Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif (SCIC) founded in 2018 and headquartered in Paris. The cooperative supports individuals, families, and collectives who live in or aspire to create ecological collective places ("écolieux" or "oasis") in France, operating as a category-defining infrastructure layer for the country's ecological collective living movement. Its core offering is an integrated platform combining citizen-investor financing (loans up to €190,000 over 10 years for land acquisition and common infrastructure), governance accompaniment and conflict resolution, structured training (the Pépinière Oasis incubator and other formations), the annual Festival Oasis event (planned for August 1-4, 2026 at Château du Feÿ, Bourgogne), Voyages Oasis immersive travel, Foncière Oasis as a real estate financing vehicle, and Oasis de Biodiversité for biodiversity protection using Obligations Réelles Environnementales legal mechanisms. The cooperative has catalogued over 1,600 écolieux projects across France in partnership with Habitat Participatif France and maintains an observatory publishing research such as the RCI-E relational capacity indicator study.

Name

COOPERATIVE OASIS

Legal name

Coopérative Oasis

Website

https://cooperative-oasis.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Coopérative Oasis is a French social cooperative (SCIC) founded in 2018 that supports a network of 1,600+ ecological collective living projects across France through citizen-investor financing, governance training, accompaniment, and community events.

Ownership category

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Product category

Collective Living Support Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (712190)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

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Destination Spa Resorts (THAGAMAA)

Keywords

• Ecological collective housing
• Cooperative project financing
• Shared governance training
• Ecolieux accompaniment services
• Citizen investment cooperative

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Investor funding: The cooperative raises capital from citizen investors to finance écolieux projects. They target €2 million in 2026 to finance 10 écolieux. Investors become shareholders (sociétaires) of the cooperative.
2. Training and formation: Revenue from training programs including Pépinière Oasis and other formation offerings for aspiring écolieux residents and project leaders.
3. Festival and events: Revenue from Festival Oasis tickets and related events. The 2026 Festival is planned for August 1-4.
4. Travel experiences: Voyages Oasis program offering immersive visits to écolieux locations.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Coopérative Oasis is a French non-profit cooperative (SCIC) that supports individuals and groups creating or living in ecological collective places (écolieux, branded as "oasis"). It sells an integrated package of long-term project financing (€120,000–€190,000 over 10 years for land and common buildings), accompaniment in shared governance and conflict resolution, training programs (Pépinière Oasis, free Parcours Oasis), a collective real-estate vehicle (Foncière Oasis), biodiversity protection via Obligations Réelles Environnementales, immersive Voyages Oasis travel, and the annual Festival Oasis gathering. Its operations are sustained by citizen investment, training and accompaniment fees, event ticketing, and donations.

Product overview

COOPERATIVE OASIS is a Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif (SCIC) created in 2018 that supports people living in or wishing to create collective eco-locations called 'oasis'. The cooperative operates as a unified platform offering integrated services: financial support (Financement, Foncière Oasis) for project funding; accompaniment programs (Accompagnement, Pépinière Oasis) for project development and governance; educational offerings (Parcours gratuit, resources); biodiversity protection (Oasis de Biodiversité/ORE); and experiential programs (Voyages Oasis, Festival Oasis). The organization maintains a network of over 1600 documented eco-location projects across France and publishes research through its observatory. Key content initiatives include the book 'La Force du Collectif' and multiple podcast series documenting eco-location practices. The cooperative does not operate as a software technology platform but rather as a social/economic cooperative providing advisory, financial, and community-building services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Pépinière Oasis: Training nursery program for eco-communities
• Voyages Oasis
• Foncière Oasis
• Oasis de Biodiversité / ORE
• Festival Oasis
• La Force du Collectif
• Parcours Oasis
• Journal Oasis

Products and services

• Financement (Project Financing) Long-term (10-year) financing for écolieux collectives to acquire land and build common buildings, typically €120,000–€190,000 per project, offered because banks decline ASL and similar collective structures.
• Accompagnement (Project Accompaniment)

Quantifiable outcome

• 1600+ écolieux projects catalogued in France
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Habitat Participatif FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-recounting 1600+ écolieux projects in France. Joint efforts in mapping and documenting the écolieux movement across France.
• Les Chemins de la TransitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for 'service civique' volunteer program. Volunteers cycle France visiting écolieux and documenting experiences. Martin Barbara and Jade Tailhandier completed service civique placements jointly.
• BL EvolutionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConducted study on carbon footprint of écolieux. BL Evolution research showed écolieux average 5.4 tonnes CO2/person/year vs 10 tonnes national average.
• Campus de la TransitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConducted RCI-E (Indicateur de Capacité Relationnelle appliqué aux écolieux) study with support from ADEME and European Social Fund. Research partner for écolieux metrics and relational capacity assessment.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• AVISE: French agency supporting the development of social enterprises and the social and solidarity economy, working alongside ecosystem participants such as ADEME. Functions as an enabling / capacity-building intermediary for organizations like Coopérative Oasis.
• France Active: National network of organizations financing and supporting social enterprises and solidarity-based initiatives. Relevant as a comparable solidarity-finance intermediary that channels capital to impact-oriented ventures with similar structures.

Broad incumbents

• Terre de Liens: Federation of organizations that acquire and steward farmland to enable organic and peasant agriculture, including support for collective farming initiatives. Touches the same eco-community / land-access mission from a soil-farming angle rather than eco-housing.
• Colibris: The national citizen movement for ecological transition from which Coopérative Oasis was spun out (Mathieu Labonne directed Colibris 2014-2020). Operates broadly across ecological transition rather than focusing narrowly on écolieux, but with strong thematic overlap.

Direct peers

• Habitat Participatif France: National federation representing participatory housing projects in France. They co-map the 1600+ écolieux network with Coopérative Oasis and share a similar mission of supporting collective ecological housing, making them the closest direct peer in this niche.
• Cohabitat (France): A French cooperative society (SCOP) that supports group projects to design, finance, and operate collective ecological housing. Operates with a similar cooperative structure in France, addressing the same demographic of aspiring collective-living residents.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/des.brouettes.et.des.ailes

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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