Social and Economic Management of Solidarity Economics program officially inaugurated
Social and Economic Management of Solidarity Economics program officially inaugurated
Social and Economic Management of Solidarity Economics program officially inaugurated
Aretxabaleta, January 24, 2018. The Aretxabaleta campus today hosted the presentation of the Diploma of Specialization in Social and Economic Management of Solidarity Economics. During this academic year, 16 participants from eight Latin American countries will take part in the program, which is organized by Mondragon University’s Lanki Institute of Cooperative Research and the Alboan Foundation.
The following people participated in the presentation: Begoña Pedrosa, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education (HUHEZI); Ainara Udaondo, director of the Lanki Institute of Cooperative Research; Unai Elkoro, Mayor of Aretxabaleta; Mary Tere Guzmán, director of the Alboan Foundation (an international cooperation NGO), and Emma Galladro, student representative from the Peruvian organization CIPKA.
During this program, 16 students from 8 Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Nicaragua) will join HUHEZI classes through the month of March. Upon completion of the program, they will implement what they have learned in their own countries, where they work primarily in associations and in projects of solidarity with indigenous peoples.
The purpose of the program is to contribute to the socio-economic strengthening and viability of Latin American initiatives and organizations of social and solidarity economics. Students from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Nicaragua will be trained in socio-economic management and gender equality in order to improve both their individual and collective abilities.
The student participants bring considerable experience to the program, including experience in honey production in Bolivia, guinea pig production in Peru, a social business of coffee producers in Colombia that works with the rural population, a shoemaking shop in Ecuador that works primarily with women and refugees, a producer of artisanal soaps made in Mexico that works with the indigenous population, etc.
This program is cofinanced by the Basque Government through the Basque Cooperation for Development Agency in collaboration with the Aretxabaleta City Council, the Mundukide Foundation, and the Arizmendiarrietaren Lagunak Association.