PARTNERS

Meet our team

The PlatformCo-opsNow! It has been created through the collaboration between Mondragon University and The New School, but also has an international partnership network that has made possible the expansion of the course and the initiatives created throughout the globe. These partners have provided local support by supporting the generation of local initiatives and mentoring entrepreneurial teams.

Andalusia

EAES: Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social

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Galicia

ESPAZOCOOP: Unión de Cooperativas Galegas

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Valencia

FLORIDA UNIVERSITARIA

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Gipuzkoa

MONDRAGON

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Gipuzkoa

MONDRAGON UNIBERTSITATEA - MONDRAGON TEAM ACADEMY

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Bizkaia

TZBZ

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EAES: Andalusian school of social economy (Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social)

EAES supports social and solidarity economy organisations and companies with the development of a management model in accordance with the principles and values of co-operativism, putting people and work as the central axis without losing sight of economic sustainability.

ESPAZOCOOP: Galician co-operatives union (Unión de Cooperativas Galegas)

Espazocoop aspires to being an entity of reference in the Galician co-operativism field, in the social economy framework. With a vocation for influencing society and social transformation, consolidating co-operative values and principles and collaborating in achieving an economy based on people, sustainable development and social responsibility.

FLORIDA UNIVERSITY

Florida University is a higher education centre with a wide academic offer in official degrees affiliated with the University of Valencia, The Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Mondragon, training courses and PHDs. The Florida Education Group (Florida Grup Educatiu) is a project with more than 40 years of experience in education.

TZBZ

TZBZ is made up of a young and motivated innovation team willing to change the world and transform people. They strategically design products, services, brands, environments, organisations and teams. Through a multi-localised vision, they generate a positive impact, promoting new and original initiatives always centred around people.

MONDRAGON

MONDRAGON is the fruit of a cooperative business reality that emerged in 1956. Its philosophy is reflected in its Corporate Values: inter-cooperation, participation in management, social responsibility, innovation, democratic organisation, education and social transformation.

MONDRAGON uses democratic methods in its corporate organisation, and aspires to job creation, the human and professional advancement of its workers, as well as the development of its social environment. It is configured in four areas: finance, industry, distribution and knowledge. Today it is made up of 96 autonomous and independent co-operatives, more than 81,000 people and 14 R&D centres, it constitutes the first Basque business group and the tenth in Spain.

MONDRAGON UNIBERTSITATEA - MONDRAGON TEAM ACADEMY

Mondragon University is a co-operative university, member of the Mondragon Corporation, with a clear humanist vocation and committed to the environment and society. It maintains a commitment to social transformation, materialised in a participatory model. Its education model involves a system of relations that, with the education system as its axis, seeks the implication of businesses and institutions to guarantee social accessibility, combine studies and work, the development of research and the transfer of knowledge and continuous training provision.

Mondragon Team Academy (MTA) is the entrepreneurial unit born within Mondragon University in 2008 with the purpose of giving new life to the original spirit of Mondragon. In 2009 it created the first national level degree in entrepreneurship called LEINN (Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation) and the bases and principles of the learning that it has created have served to carry out new training programmes such as PLATFORM CO-OPS NOW!