The Business Faculty of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, through Mondragon Team Academy, participates in the Platform Cooperative Consortium Conference 2022
The Business Faculty of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, through Mondragon Team Academy, participates in the Platform Cooperative Consortium Conference 2022
The Business Faculty of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, through Mondragon Team Academy, participates in the Platform Cooperative Consortium Conference 2022
A few days ago, Mondragon Team Academy participated with more than 150 other people in the PCC 2022 Conference (Platform Cooperative Consortium Conference) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A few days ago, Mondragon Team Academy participated with more than 150 other people in the PCC 2022 Conference (Platform Cooperative Consortium Conference) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This edition, “Owning the Future: Platform Cooperatives Scaling Sustainability with the Global South” brought together 66 speakers from 11 countries at the Museum of the Future in Rio de Janeiro, a great place to share and connect. It was thought that the time was right to move the conference to the South to re-energize and be re-energized by the growing platform cooperative movement in Brazil and Latin America.
On behalf of the Business Faculty - Mondragon Team Academy, Sain Lopez and Aitor Lizartza participated in the Conference with a panel on the activities we develop in terms of training, incubation and research on platform cooperatives. We invited to the panel Mundukide Fundazioa with whom we develop project in Brazil and collaborate with the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra MST.
Mondragon Team Academy and digital platform cooperativism
Mondragon Team Academy is promoting digital cooperativism and creating an international network of training, research and incubation of digital platform cooperatives for the regeneration and creation of cooperative enterprises and employment. The team presented at the conference these activities they develop in training, incubation and research in platform cooperatives:
- Training/education: Platform Coops Now! training program in collaboration with THE NEW SCHOOL: 4 editions with more that 1300 participants from more than 60 countries. We started the online course in the middle of covid19 crisis (April 2020) and it enabled us to create a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, researchers and policy makers.
- Research: 6 months residence at Mondragon University by @TreborScholz. We participated in Harvard University Berkman & Klein Institute’s research sprint on the future of data and data cooperatives, as well as the 2022-23 ICDE Fellowship program. At the moment we are defining the key areas of research in the field. Some articles were published about the topic and we are aiming to build a pan-european multistakeholder network to frame platform coops.
- Incubation: Coopworks acceleration program developed with the participation of 10 international platform coops startups (188 candidates). We provide know-how, teamcoaching, mentoring and active community. We support teams to launch their platform coop startup. The training program also contributed to create and incubate new platform coops startups.
Next Platform Coops Now! 5th Edition will start soon and registration is open. Here the link to join us. This online course about platform coops entrepreneurship promotes new digital platform coops and the creation of an international network.
We look forward to continuing these actions with energy and determination, creating a more just and sustainable future for all.