Institutional path COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE dates from 1958, when a group of cooperative, led by brothers Henry and l will Rymel Serrano Uribe Uribe and Carlos Garzon, decided to bet on the strengthening of the solidarity economy and in particular the cooperative, from adult education in this doctrine. To do this, was created the Moses Institute Michael Coady, honoring the name of the Canadian cooperative priest, pioneer of cooperative education at home Later in 1961, the Institute MM Coady becomes the Institute of Social Economy and Cooperatives - INDESCO and later, the National Superintendency of Cooperatives, after DANCOOP, then DANSOCIAL, and today Special Administrative Unit of solidarity organizations, through Resolution 4156 of 1963, operating license granted to the "Institute for Social Economy and Cooperative".