Mondragon University opens registration for the course ‘Keys to the MONDRAGON cooperative experience’

Registration is now open for the Keys to the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience course, led by the LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research and Development at Mondragon University. The course will be offered online, in Spanish and English, and is aimed at international students. The second edition of the course will begin on February 11 and end on March 21. The stay in Mondragon will take place from March 31 to April 4 in Spanish and from April 4 to 11 in English. Registration will be open until January 29.

Participants of the first edition during their visit to COPRECI.

Thanks to the course, you will get a close look at one of the world's leading cooperative ecosystems: the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience. A socioeconomic business project, which brings together more than 70,000 people, 81 cooperatives, a university and 12 R&D centres.

The audience for the course led by the LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research and Development is anyone interested in the Mondragon Cooperative Experience. They might be students or faculty in different fields as well as researchers, co-op members or developers, or others. The course is aimed at all those interested in shared ownership, cooperative enterprise and the social economy generally.

Program

The online course presents the main features of cooperative enterprise and the key elements of the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience as the concept of cooperative enterprise, the historical roots, or the intercooperation among co-ops.

On the other hand, the objective of the visit is to learn about the Mondragon cooperatives through direct contact and discussion, deepening participants’ knowledge of this social-business project. The visit is optional and will be organized if a minimum number of people who do the course commit to participating.