{"id":17158,"date":"2019-05-20T20:16:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newmondragon-corporation.com\/visit-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:45:19","slug":"visit-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/visit-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WELCOME TO MONDRAGON<\/h1>\n

Visit us<\/strong> and explore our Cooperative Experience.
\nTo learn more, you can also sign up for the online course<\/strong> on the \u201cKeys of the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience\u201d.<\/h2>\n
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AN EXPERIENCE THAT LEAVES ITS MARK<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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VISITS<\/div>\n
\nAt MONDRAGON, we welcome people from all over the world who want to learn about the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience.<\/p>\n

Your host throughout your stay will be a member of the Cooperative Outreach team, who will explain MONDRAGON\u2019s story and its current situation, as well as answer your questions.<\/p>\n

Visits are at Otalora, MONDRAGON\u2019s Management and Cooperative Development Centre, located in the town of Aretxabaleta, in the neighborhood of Aozaraza.<\/p>\n

NEXT SCHEDULED VISITS:<\/h4>\n

\u2014 2026<\/strong>: 23rd March \/ 27th April \/ 25th May \/ 29th June \/ 20th July \/ 28th September \/ 26th October \/ 23rd November \/ 14th December.
\n\u2014 Language: English.
\n\u2014 Visits start at 10:30am, and last for 2 hours.<\/p>\nREQUEST A RESERVATION<\/span>

\nVisitors are kindly requested to fulfil the following requirements:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Be at least 18 years old (applicable to all visitors).
\n\u2014 You are advised to arrive in plenty of time.
\n\u2014 You may take photos but not record video or audio.
\n\u2014 You may be sharing your visit with other people.
\n\u2014 You will need to have a car or arrange transport to get to Otalora.
\n\u2014 Follow all the instructions given by security staff in the event of an emergency or evacuation.
\n\u2014 There is a charge of 30\u20ac per person, to contribute to the costs of this service.<\/p>\n

By beginning this process, you accept MONDRAGON\u2019s privacy and data management policy.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/i> Start<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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ONLINE COURSE<\/div>\n
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\u2018KEYS TO THE MONDRAGON
\nCOOPERATIVE EXPERIENCE\u2019<\/h3>\n
\n\u2014 Course starts 03 February, 2026.
\n\u2014 Optional one week study-tour in MONDRAGON.
\n\u2014 75 hours, online.\n<\/div>\n
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT US?<\/h3>\n
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There are many people who know us. Some of them have come to visit us. Here a few testimonies and feelings about the MONDRAGON Experience.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n“How a Worker-Owned Business Model [MONDRAGON] in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check”.\n

Bloomberg News<\/strong>. Jeannette Neumann<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cMONDRAGON: Maintaining Resilience through Cooperative Strategies\u201d\n

Justine Esta Ellis, Alastair Colin-Jones and Ibon Zugasti, <\/span> for the University of Oxford<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cMONDRAGON, An emblematic example of cooperative principles in action\u201d\n

Ant\u00f3nio Guterres,<\/span> Secretary General of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n“Do capitalism in another way”\n

Mariana Mazzucato,<\/span> economist<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n“MONDRAGON teaches us how to compete through cooperation”\n

Yolanda D\u00edaz,<\/span> ministra de Trabajo <\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n“A model based on solidarity”\n

Joseph Stiglitz, <\/span>Premio Nobel de Econom\u00eda<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n“The most important thing we have in Euskal Herria”\n

Juan Mari Arzak, <\/span>Cocinero<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cIt is an icon for the cooperative movement\u201d\n

Pauline Green,<\/span> ex presidenta la Alianza Cooperativa Internacional <\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cMONDRAGON is an example of industrial democracy\u201d\n

Noam Chomsky,<\/span> ling\u00fcista americano, profesor del Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Massachusetts<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\nHumanity at Work \u2013 MONDRAGON, a social innovation ecosystem case study\n

The Young Fundation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\nCo-ops in Spain\u2019s Basque Region Soften Capitalism\u2019s Rough Edge\n

New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cMONDRAGON represents a way of transforming reality through cooperation\u201d\n

Laura Flanders,<\/span> periodista americana, directora del programa “The Laura Flanders show”<\/p>\n<\/a>\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n

Other voices, about MONDRAGON<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\nInternational Year of Cooperatives 2012\n

Javier Andr\u00e9s, <\/span>Diputado General de \u00c1lava
\nMart\u00edn Garitano, <\/span>Diputado General de Gipuzkoa
\nPatxi L\u00f3pez<\/span>
\nPauline Green, <\/span>Presidenta de la Alianza Cooperativa Internacional
\nJoaqu\u00edn Almunia, <\/span>Vicepresidente de la Comisi\u00f3n Europea
\nMarcos Pe\u00f1a, <\/span>Presidente del Comit\u00e9 Econ\u00f3mico y Social <\/p>\n<\/a>\n\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cIt is great that the Pope has recognized Arizmendiarrieta as venerable \u201d\n

Carlos Garc\u00eda de Ando\u00edn,<\/span> miembro del Equipo Gestor de la Causa de Beatificaci\u00f3n de Arizmendiarrieta<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n“The benefits are shared in a more equitable way”\n

Workplace democracy:<\/span> The Mondragon Cooperatives<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cMONDRAGON a huge Basque Cooperative Group that is beating the crisis\u201d 2012\n

AFP News Agency<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n\u201cDecisions are made by the workers\u201d\n

Tom Hartman, <\/span>n RTV News<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\n\t\n\t\t\"\"\n24 minutes in cooperative code\n

Zigor Ezpeleta,<\/span> director Gesti\u00f3n Social de MONDRAGON<\/p>\n<\/a>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n

MORE REFERENCES IN OUR TUMBLR ><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WELCOME TO MONDRAGON Visit us and explore our Cooperative Experience. To learn more, you can also sign up for the online course on the \u201cKeys of the MONDRAGON Cooperative Experience\u201d. WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT US? Other voices, about MONDRAGON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17158","page","type-page","status-publish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17158"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34865,"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17158\/revisions\/34865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mondragon-corporation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}