WELCOME TO MONDRAGON
Visit us and explore our Cooperative Experience.
To learn more, you can also sign up for the online course on the “Keys of the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience”.
AN EXPERIENCE THAT LEAVES ITS MARK
Your host throughout your stay will be a member of the Cooperative Outreach team, who will explain MONDRAGON’s story and its current situation, as well as answer your questions.
Visits are at Otalora, MONDRAGON’s Management and Cooperative Development Centre, located in the town of Aretxabaleta, in the neighborhood of Aozaraza.
NEXT SCHEDULED VISITS:
— 2025: 15th September / 26th October / 23rd November / 14th December.
— 2026: 26th January / 16th February / 23rd March / 27th April / 25th May / 29th June / 20th July.
— Language: English.
— Visits start at 10:30am, and last for 2 hours.
‘KEYS TO THE MONDRAGON
COOPERATIVE EXPERIENCE’
— Optional one week study-tour in MONDRAGON.
— 75 hours, online.
WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT US?
There are many people who know us. Some of them have come to visit us. Here a few testimonies and feelings about the MONDRAGON Experience.
“How a Worker-Owned Business Model [MONDRAGON] in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check”.
Bloomberg News. Jeannette Neumann
“MONDRAGON: Maintaining Resilience through Cooperative Strategies”
Justine Esta Ellis, Alastair Colin-Jones and Ibon Zugasti, for the University of Oxford
“MONDRAGON, An emblematic example of cooperative principles in action”
António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations.
“Do capitalism in another way”
Mariana Mazzucato, economist
“MONDRAGON teaches us how to compete through cooperation”
Yolanda Díaz, ministra de Trabajo
“A model based on solidarity”
Joseph Stiglitz, Premio Nobel de Economía
“The most important thing we have in Euskal Herria”
Juan Mari Arzak, Cocinero
“It is an icon for the cooperative movement”
Pauline Green, ex presidenta la Alianza Cooperativa Internacional
“MONDRAGON is an example of industrial democracy”
Noam Chomsky, lingüista americano, profesor del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts
Humanity at Work – MONDRAGON, a social innovation ecosystem case study
The Young Fundation
Co-ops in Spain’s Basque Region Soften Capitalism’s Rough Edge
New York Times
“MONDRAGON represents a way of transforming reality through cooperation”
Laura Flanders, periodista americana, directora del programa “The Laura Flanders show”
Other voices, about MONDRAGON
International Year of Cooperatives 2012
Javier Andrés, Diputado General de Álava
Martín Garitano, Diputado General de Gipuzkoa
Patxi López
Pauline Green, Presidenta de la Alianza Cooperativa Internacional
Joaquín Almunia, Vicepresidente de la Comisión Europea
Marcos Peña, Presidente del Comité Económico y Social
“It is great that the Pope has recognized Arizmendiarrieta as venerable ”
Carlos García de Andoín, miembro del Equipo Gestor de la Causa de Beatificación de Arizmendiarrieta
“The benefits are shared in a more equitable way”
Workplace democracy: The Mondragon Cooperatives
“MONDRAGON a huge Basque Cooperative Group that is beating the crisis” 2012
AFP News Agency
“Decisions are made by the workers”
Tom Hartman, n RTV News
24 minutes in cooperative code
Zigor Ezpeleta, director Gestión Social de MONDRAGON
