7.Social transformation

“The world was not given to us to contemplate, but to change.” José María Arizmendiarrieta, founder of the Mondragón Corporation.

With this motto as a roadmap, our objectives are based on creating wealth at the service of people’s well-being and democratising the corporation and its social function. Through these tools, we want to bring community development to the places where we work.

To this end, we have launched GEHIKOOP – Education for Intercooperative Social Transformation. The aim of this pilot project is to broaden the impact of social transformation beyond our own environment. Working in a collaborative environment, we learn about models of social transformation in other countries and work with them to seek common solutions.

The project has two main lines of work:

1. Cooperative area: aimed at people from cooperatives with a long history in the field of social transformation and who are sensitive to the subject. Cooperatives participate in this line of work: Fagor, Ederlan, Copreci, Maier.
2. Educational field: the objective of this line is to create and disseminate resources for the development of a caring person, with a critical local-global and entrepreneurial perspective. For this we are collaborating with Mondragon Unibertsitatea and Arizmendi Ikastola.

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SUSTAINABLE MUNDUKIDE (PERTE II)

The MONSOS project on the Promotion of Sustainable Transformation Strategies for MONDRAGON companies represents the contribution of MONDRAGON and its cooperatives for the construction of a sustainable, economic, social and environmental world.
The MONSOS project represents the confirmation of the commitment and firm commitment of MONDRAGON and its cooperatives, to global challenges of the first order, such as climate change or inequality, which require immediate action in order not to jeopardise neither our future, nor that of the next generations.
10 cooperatives (Embega, Eroski, Mundukide, Ausolan, Ategi, MIK, Oiarso-Bexen Medical, Mondragon S. Coop., Fagor Automation and Mondragon Medical Components, Mondragon S. Coop., Fagor Automation and Mondragon Components) have agreed to aid to develop actions between February 2024 and June 2025. These include the development of diagnostics and balances for the environmental, social and statistical situation, as well as the development of methodologies and solutions for the improvement of environmental, social and statistical conditions.
The total investment of the project amounts to 4,429.203.63 € of which the Integral Plan of Impulse to the Social Economy for the Generation of an Economic, Inclusive and Sustainable Fabric supports financing of 1,492,249.94 €.

SUSTAINABLE MUNDUKIDE (PERTE I)

Mundukide has participated in the MONDRAGON SUSTAINABLE project together with 8 other cooperatives, through the convening of the Comprehensive Plan to Boost the Social Economy for the generation of an economic, inclusive and sustainable fabric within the framework of the Strategic Projects for Recovery and Economic Change (PERTE).

Strategic Framework

Mundukide’s environmental sustainability strategy is part of the challenge of “expanding inter-cooperation and its impact” within the strategic plan 2022-2025.

In turn, within the challenge of “strengthening the team of people and their organization”, it incorporates as an action the plan of equality and the participation of women and men in structures, work processes and decision-making spaces, generating and feminizing them.

Aid for the development of activities

In line with the strategic challenges, Mundukide has acceded to aid for the development of activities between February and October 2023:

Development of diagnostics and balances for the environmental, social and statistical situation.
Development of methodologies and solutions for improving environmental, social and gender conditions.
The total investment of the project amounts to €116,590 of which PERTE supports a financing of €58,295.