MONDRAGON AND THE SDGS
The cooperatives encourage a responsible, democratic, sustainable business model. People and teams cooperate to create competitive businesses, improve people’s lives and respond to the new challenges of society such as the Sustainable Development Goals.
Better development model
The idea is to leave the future generations a better development model for people and the planet.
The cooperatives work to develop technologies that are the best in the world and the best for the world: decarbonised industries, zero waste, with high value-added products and services and quality employment.
They also cooperate with social stakeholders and local authorities, promoting innovative infrastructures and social initiatives that will enable a balance to be achieved between economic growth, environmental protection and social wellbeing.
ENDING POVERTY
Through social action in both the North and the South, the MUNDUKIDE Foundation is improving the lives of 80,000 people in Africa and Latin America People benefiting in Africa and Latin America
POVERTY
ZERO HUNGER
Partnering vulnerable communities. The annual nutritional needs of almost 10,000 people were met thanks to donations from Eroski and its customers People benefiting from food resources
HUNGER
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
LagunAro provides social assistance and welfare to 28,228 active mutual provident society members (46.2% women), with a total of 56,799 beneficiaries (active members and their children)
AND WELLBEING
QUALITY EDUCATION
OSARTEN is a Joint Prevention Service consisting of 100 companies and catering to 23,000 people. The group companies’ investment in Health, Safety and Wellbeing has resulted in accident rates traditionally 40% lower than the average for the Basque Autonomous Community (Industrial Sector)
EDUCATION
GENDER EQUALITY
51.1% of the people who work at MONDRAGON are women. Women members make up 29% of the Governing Councils and 27% of the Management Councils. 60% of the cooperatives have Gender Plans at their organisations, with this percentage accounting for 90% of total sales.
EQUALITY
CLEAN WATER
MONDRAGON offers international turnkey projects for electrical engineering and automation of water treatment plants.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
AFFORDABLE ENERGY
It carries out renewable energy generation projects, such as Ekian, the Basque Country’s largest solar power plant, and Ekiola, the cooperative energy communities.
NON-POLLUTING ENERGY
EMPLOYMENT
This is a core element of the cooperative model. MONDRAGON is the Basque Country’s leading employer and is among the top ten in Spain.
AND ECONOMIC
GROWTH
INNOVATION
With an innovative business ecosystem, 14 R&D Centres and a University employing over 2,400 people and maintaining 505 patent families in force.
INEQUALITY
The MONDRAGON business model generates equality, quality of life and equal opportunities.
Its salary range tends to even out the highest and lowest incomes, with a wage scale ranging from 1-6 between the minimum and maximum salaries.
INEQUALITIES
TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES
MONDRAGON participates in the programmes for territorial and urban strategic planning, risk assessment and adaptation to climate change, implementation of waste management infrastructures, the environment and social integration. We also continue to make the necessary progress towards the use and standardisation of the Basque language at our cooperatives: 60 cooperatives are developing Basque language plans or systems, and a total of 53 have obtained the BIKAIN language management quality certificate awarded by the Basque Government.
TOWNS AND
COMMUNITIES
CONSUMPTION
Health and sustainability are key pillars of our consumption model, which has a firm commitment to local products. Over 50% of its suppliers are small-scale local producers.
PRODUCTION AND
CONSUMPTION
CLIMATE
MONDRAGON aspires to a decarbonised economy. 90% of its sales are backed by certified quality management and 55% by an environment management system.
ACTION
UNDERWATER LIFE
MONDRAGON supports the Sustainable Fishing initiative promoted by the WWF.
LIFE
LAND ECOSYSTEMS
MONDRAGON participates in projects for recovery of native species, forest management and sustainable production of local produce.
IN LAND
ECOSYSTEMS
GOVERNANCE
The cooperative model favours transparency and all-round involvement: in the ownership, management and profit. 664 people (39% women) meet annually at the Congress, the body that decides on the general guidelines or criteria governing MONDRAGON.
SOUND INSTITUTIONS
PARTNERSHIP
The Corporation has its origins in inter-cooperation. It has agreements with different international networks and partnerships to multiply its transformational power.
TO ACHIEVE
GOALS
SOCIAL ACTION BY MONDRAGON’S FOUNDATIONS
AUSOLAN FOUNDATION
This Foundation was created to ensure that vulnerable groups have access to healthy, sufficient and sustainable food, helping educate families about healthy lifestyle habits and environments, and also to foster women’s technical and professional training to help them access decent employment.
GIZABIDEA FOUNDATION
A not-for-profit organisation created to promote cooperative education, it supports the development of educational infrastructures in Debagoiena (Gipuzkoa) in order to provide an innovative cooperative response to society’s future challenges.
GAZTEMPRESA FOUNDATION
A leading foundation for business creation and for fostering entrepreneurship in the Basque Country, its aim is to support initiatives and carry out work that will help create and safeguard jobs. In 2021 it created 278 companies and generated 547 jobs. A total of over 6,000 companies have been aided by this Foundation to date.
GSR FOUNDATION
This entity’s main goal is to set the standards for friendly, welcoming, respectful and innovative people management for dependent people with special needs.
EROSKI FOUNDATION
The Eroski Foundation carries out numerous social action initiatives, mainly connected with promoting healthy lifestyle habits, consumer education, environmental protection and solidarity.
MONDRAGON FOUNDATION
Within the scope of the MONDRAGON cooperatives, it promotes the social economy, fostering social, cooperative and professional training and also research and development geared to helping the cooperatives advance in technology.
LEARTIBAI FOUNDATION
Committed to economic development, this is a local development entity that aims to boost the business fabric of the Lea-Artibai area in Bizkaia province, in collaboration with public and private actors.
ORONA FOUNDATION
This Foundation aims to create a meeting place with educational, social, cultural and socio-economic actors in order to share knowledge and experience, boosting society’s development.
MUNDUKIDE FOUNDATION
A Foundation created for cooperation with the countries of the South, sharing experiences, resources and cooperative know-how to promote their self-managed comprehensive development.
ULMA FOUNDATION
This is a Foundation that aims to boost the Social Economy and promote cultural, social, charity and welfare activities. It is also committed to socio-cooperative and professional education and training and informing of the characteristics of the cooperative system in its local area.
