Conference on cooperativism 2024: 'Responsible people in co-responsible cooperatives'

Conference on cooperativism 2024: 'Responsible people in co-responsible cooperatives'

The meeting, which will take place on June 18, will be titled 'Responsible people in co-responsible cooperatives'. This eighth annual conference on cooperativism will be held on the Eskoriatza campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences.

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The eighth annual Conference on Cooperativism organized by the LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research of Mondragon University will be held on Tuesday, June 18, on the Eskoriatza campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences.

The event, which will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., will be titled 'Responsible people in co-responsible cooperatives'. The conference will address the importance of promoting co-responsible attitudes among cooperative members and will share some keys to working in this direction.

To this end, in the first part, LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research researcher Igor Ortega and Mondragon University Higher Polytechnic School professor and researcher Unai Elorza will briefly present the conclusions of their respective research, and in the second part, practices to strengthen co-responsibility will be shared by representatives from different cooperatives in a round table discussion.

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PROGRAM

• 3:00-3:30 p.m. Welcome and institutional welcome
• 3:30-4:00 p.m. Responsibility in the cooperative enterprise: context and research results. (Igor Ortega - LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research, Mondragon University)
• 4:00-4:30 p.m. Work environments that favor co-responsible attitudes. (Unai Elorza - Higher Polytechnic School of Mondragon University)
• 5:00-5:45 p.m. Round table discussion of practical experiences:
  • Marta Carazo (Eroski)
  • Javi Torrella (Soraluce)
  • Iñigo Iñurrategi (Mondragon Group)
  • Axier Lekuona (Orkli)
  • Moderator: Marixe Ruiz de Austri (LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research)
• 5:45-6:00 p.m. Closing remarks and refreshments
• * Simultaneous translation will be available.

The LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research is located in the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of Mondragon University, on the Eskoriatza campus. Its two main functions are: first, to combine university knowledge and cooperative practice; and second, to influence the internal and external cooperative situation. To this end, we make use of the resources of cooperative education, research, advice and dissemination, all of which share the same fundamental purpose: to revive cooperativism and share in various spaces the knowledge and experience regarding cooperativism accumulated in recent years. Currently, some fifteen professionals are engaged in our work at the LANKI Institute of Cooperative Research.