Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Mondragon Unibertsitatea (the university of Mondragon) is a practical, innovative and committed university, focused on the development of people, oriented to the needs of the company and society, conceived to meet the challenges of the real world, where knowledge and its application have no limits.

Mondragon University is a cooperative university founded in 1997, albeit comprised of three educational cooperatives (Mondragon Higher Polytechnic School S.Coop, Enpresagintza S.Coop and Teacher Training School S.Coop). In 2011, the Basque Culinary Center was created and became part of Mondragon University.

Each Faculty with a legal cooperative structure is built upon a shared project with common cooperative principles such as the priority of the work and the cooperation, democracy and solidarity. These principles are fostered through the implication of three collectives in equal participation: worker partners (owners of the cooperative with capital asset), collaborating partners (representatives from coop and non-coop companies and other institutions) and students.

Public use, non profit making and sustainable, and belonging to the MONDRAGON Corporation

As a university with a clear social vocation we are focused on building suitable employment in society through our educational model and our particular view of research, geared to the needs of business. In building a non-profit making cooperative, we are promoting the students' economic capacity and self-finance by enabling them to combine study and work.

As a non-public organisation, our cooperatives have embodied the concept of sustainability of its own activities, where eventual positive annual results are re-invested in the cooperative and negative results are set against the capital assets of the worker partners.

Faculty of Engineering

The Higher Polytechnic School (HPS) of Mondragon, started its teaching activities in 1943 on the initiative of Father José Maria Arizmendiarrieta, Founder of the Cooperative Experience of Mondragon. Since then it has never stopped growing, and has been the driving force behind the creation of numerous innovative business experiences.

The HPS is a co-operative integrated into both Mondragon Unibertsitatea and MONDRAGON Corporation and is the legal owner of Mondragon Unibertsitatea's Faculty Of Engineering.

We are the Faculty of Engineering of Mondragon Unibertsitatea and we offer a reliable and quality educational proposal, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, technologically advanced and with the ability to anticipate the changes of the future. We are committed to the future of people and have a long-range vision that balances local connection with an international vision.

We identify trends to anticipate the challenges of the future through an agile and advanced model. Our main activities are training, research, transfer and entrepreneurship in many areas of technology, thus contributing to improve the competitive position of companies and organizations.

MONDRAGON Corporation

MONDRAGON Corporation is the embodiment of the co-operative movement that began in 1956, the year that witnessed the creation of the first industrial cooperative in Mondragón in the province of Gipuzkoa in Spain; its business philosophy is contained in its Corporate Values: Co-operation, Participation, Social Responsibilty and Innovation.

The Corporation’s Mission combines the core goals of a business organisation competing in international markets with the use of democratic methods in its business organisation, the creation of jobs, the human and professional development of its workers and a pledge to development with its social environment.

In terms of organisation, it is composed of 281 companies and entities operating in four areas: Finance, Industry, Distribution and Knowledge.

Today is the foremost Basque business group and the seventh largest in Spain.

Read a recent New Yorker article on Mondragon here.