Mission, vision, values and culture
MISSION STATEMENT
Mondragon University is a cooperative university, of public utility, integrated in Mondragon, of social initiative and dedication as well as non-profit making, whose primary aim is the transformation of society through the comprehensive education of persons and the generation and transfer of knowledge.
We promote quality comprehensive education, which includes not only scientific-technical knowledge but the competences and values derived from the cooperative experience with the aim that our students are active agents of the transformation of society, contributing to humanistic, technological and sustainable economic progress, through the development of enterprises/organisations and entrepreneurship.
Mondragon University will promote the necessary conditions in order to have an innovative group of persons committed to the satisfaction of their students, enterprises and other organisations.
Mondragon University considers itself participant in a global university system.
PERSPECTIVE 2030
To be an international reference as an innovative university that offers a personalized learning experience and promotes human and sustainable development.
VALUES
Cooperation and inter-cooperation
Being owners and protagonists means working on “something of your own” and considering the University as a joint project that promotes inter-cooperation among the centres which comprise it as well as with other cooperatives and organisations.
Innovation
Permanent attitude of seeking new options in all fields of action, as a necessary condition for progress, accepting change as something necessary and essential in university life.
Participation
The participation of people in the development of our university project is not only a right but an obligation and involves co-responsibility and being self-demanding. The participation of work partners, students, cooperating enterprises, constitutes a competitive advantage of an on-going nature.
Social responsibility
Transmitting know-how and accumulated knowledge, inside and outside the University, is one way of ensuring consolidated distribution of wealth, making a marked impact on the immediate environment, whose improvement and development we feel particularly committed to.
Development of the person to transform society
Educating people to be active agents in the transformation of society and who contribute to humanistic, technological and economic progress is the framework of a fairer, more committed and more equalitarian society.
CULTURE
- Cooperativist culture: focused on the person, on self-management, being self-demanding, supportive and transparent.
- Excellence: in teaching, the education process, research, providing services and in management.
- Efficiency and effectiveness in work:Rigour Orientation towards results Committed to objectives
- Euskaldun: committed to the Basque Country and to its cultural, linguistic, economic and technological development.
- Open and universal: cooperation and exchange with centres, people and entities throughout the world with the aim of strengthening more advanced universal thought.
- Social commitment: non elitist, equality of opportunities, collective progress and team work.
- Service: availability, flexibility, commitment to enterprises/organisations and to society.
- Innovation and entrepreneurship: promoting creativity and the generation of new activities.
- Closeness, proximity and cooperation with students: strengthening their integral development and autonomy.
- Close inter-relations with enterprises and organisations
- Sensitive and committed to the natural and social environment