origins
Mondragon Unibertsitatea we are a university created in 1997 and officially recognized by law 4/1997 of May 30.
We are born by the association of three educational cooperatives, endorsed by an extensive trajectory and experience in the world of education, Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa "Jose Mª Arizmendiarrieta" S.Coop., ETEO S.Coop. and Irakasle Eskola S.Coop. , which in turn constitute today the two Faculties and School of the University:
- Higher Polytechnic School
- Faculty of Business
- Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences
- In 2011, a fourth faculty was added, the Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences - Basque Culinary Center
Social vocation
At Mondragon Unibertsitatea we maintain a commitment to social transformation, specified in our participatory model.
We are a cooperative university, a member of the MONDRAGON Corporation, with a clear humanistic vocation and committed to our environment, our society and our time.
Our training model implies a system of relationships that, having as its axis the educational system, seeks the involvement of companies and institutions to guarantee social accessibility, combine study and work, the development of research and the transfer of knowledge and the provision of Continuous Training.
A Singular, unique and committed University
Innovation, roots, universality, creativity, dynamism, research, reliability, closeness, connection with the outside, long-range gaze.
These are some of the attributes that define Mondragon Unibertsitatea , a practical, real and committed University, focused on the development of people, oriented to the needs of the company and society, designed to face the challenges of the real world and where knowledge and its application have no borders.
Mission
Mondragon Unibertsitatea is a cooperative university, of public utility, integrated in Mondragon, of initiative and social vocation and non-profit, whose primary mission is the transformation of society through the comprehensive training of people and the generation and transfer of knowledge.
We promote comprehensive quality learning , which incorporates, in addition to scientific-technical knowledge, skills and values derived from cooperative experience in order for our students to be active agents in the transformation of society, contributing to humanistic and technological progress. and sustainable economic, through the development of companies / organizations and entrepreneurship.
Mondragon Unibertsitatea promote the precise conditions to have a group of innovative people committed to the satisfaction of their students, companies and other organizations.
Mondragon Unibertsitatea considers itself a participant in a global university system.