The eighth Conference on Cooperativism collected reflections to promote co-responsible attitudes
The eighth Conference on Cooperativism collected reflections to promote co-responsible attitudes
The eighth Conference on Cooperativism collected reflections to promote co-responsible attitudes
The conference, which was entitled 'Responsible people in co-responsible cooperatives', was hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences on the Eskoriatza campus.
Mondragon University’s LANKI Institute of Co-operative Research organized the eighth annual Conference on Cooperativism. More than 50 participants attended the event, which was held at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences on the Eskoriatza campus; another 15 international participants attended online.
The conference, which was entitled 'Responsible people in co-responsible cooperatives', addressed the importance of promoting co-responsible attitudes among cooperative members and shared some keys to working in this direction.
The conference was inaugurated by Acting Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Elena Pérez and Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences Dean Nagore Ipiña. Pérez pointed out the need to hold this type of conference, as well as to support the university’s work on cooperativism so that it continues to be a hallmark of the Basque Country. For her part, Ipiña stressed that it also serves to uphold cooperativism.
Next, Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences professor and researcher Igor Ortea gave a talk entitled “Responsibility in the cooperative company: contextualization and research results” in which he summarized the contents of the book Personas responsables en cooperativas corresponsables (Responsible People in Co-Responsible Cooperatives), which is now available.
For his part, Mondragon University Higher Polytechnic School researcher Unai Elorza spoke about the consequences of owning work in a talk entitled “Work contexts to promote co-responsibility,” pointing out, among other things, that “when the person feels good, the company is more profitable and when the company is more profitable, the person is better off.”
In the second part, practices to strengthen co-responsibility from different cooperatives were shared in a round table facilitated by Marixe Ruiz de Austri (LANKI Institute of Cooperative Studies, Mondragon University) and in which Marta Carazo (Eroski), Javi Torrella (Soraluce), Axier Lekuona (Orkli) and Iñigo Iñurrategi (Mondragon) participated.
The LANKI Institute of Cooperative Studies
The LANKI Institute of Cooperative Studies is located at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of Mondragon University, on the Eskoriatza campus. The two main functions of the LANKI Institute of Co-operative Research are, first, to combine university knowledge and the practice of cooperatives, and second, to influence the internal and external cooperative reality. To this end, we make use of the resources of cooperative education, research, advice and dissemination, all of which have the same fundamental purpose: to reactivate cooperativism and share in various spaces the knowledge and experience regarding cooperativism that have been accumulated in recent years. Currently, a group of about fifteen professionals are working at the LANKI Institute of Cooperative Studies.
