Business and Employment Co-operatives (BEC) is open to all wishing to pursue an entrepreneurial project. Future entrepreneurs often contact the BEC after getting information from job centres or local stakeholders dealing with integration or economic development.The cooperative is a multi-activity company assembling about 200 entrepreneurs. Legally and socially, they are employed by the cooperative: the cooperative invoices all of the entrepreneurs' sales, receives payments and is legally responsible for their professional activity. Professionally and economically, they benefit from an expansive autonomy, necessary for their entrepreneurial practice.Entrepreneurs pay 10% of their turnover towards the costs of running the cooperative. When the entrepreneur's activity has stabilized and is running smoothly, he or she can choose to stay permanently with the Business and Employment Co-operative and become an Associate The entrepreneur is of course free to leave the cooperative whenever he/she wants, especially to create his/her own company : the BEC will have unable to test and launch his/her activity safely as well as preparing him/her for the management of future collaborative company.