new home – Vangurad Co

OUR STRUCTURE

Vangurad

LABORAL Kutxa and LagunAro, EPSV focus on three specific activities: banking, insurance (through the Seguros Lagun Aro brand) and social welfare.

LABORAL Kutxa, a cooperative banking project, has 1.2 million customers. It is now one of Spain’s most solvent financial institutions. The Lagun Aro brand provides a comprehensive range of insurance services for private customers, the self-employed and businesses. LagunAro, EPSV also manages its own social welfare system for all cooperative members.

GLOBAL PRESENCE, INNOVATIVE APPROACH

The industrial area covers a broad range of activities, including goods and services in the sectors of consumer goods, capital goods, industrial components, construction and services to business.

MORE THAN 1,500 OUTLETS

The EROSKI GROUP is one Spain’s leading retail chains, with a network of more than 1,600 shops. It operates mainly in the food sector, although it also has dedicated stores in such sectors as sports shops, petrol stations and opticians. The company’s parent company is the Eroski cooperative, owned by both its workforce and customers, who make up its governing bodies.

ERKOP. In Retail, the agri-food group ERKOP is also part of the MONDRAGON Corporation, operating in catering, cleaning, livestock farming and agriculture.

MORE THAN 1,500 OUTLETS

Training and education have traditionally been a mainstay of the cooperative experience. In 1997, the Corporation founded Mondragon Unibertsitatea. The university now has more than 5,000 students, with campuses in Mondragón, Oñati, Eskoriatza, Markina, Goierri, Irun, Bilbao, Aretxabaleta and San Sebastián. The degrees at Mondragon Unibertsitatea include undergraduate, master’s and PhD courses in the fields of engineering, education, communications, business management, entrepreneurship and food science. MONDRAGON has also developed an integrated system of Innovation, Promotion and Knowledge (M4FUTURE), which involves the cooperatives themselves, research centres, the university, and the Corporate Promotion Centre.

University

Higher Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Humanities and Education Science, and the Faculty of Food Science

Technology Centres

Business R&D units

Education and Professional Training centres

Innovation Agents

CORPORATE PROJECTS

OTALORA

Otalora, MONDRAGON’s Centre for Management and Cooperative Development, opened in 1984 as IKASBIDE, instructing the young postgraduates that the cooperatives in the Mondragon Cooperative Group had invited to combine their postgraduate studies at this centre with placements at their companies.

MUGI Digitalera

Vangurad Learning Space for Digital Transformation. The present is already digital and the future will be even more so. The world is speeding up and we require new skills that change ever faster in all areas of life. We want to accompany you, be close and make resources available to you to help you build your professional future.

Corporate Innovation Ecosystem

At Vangurad, we identify competitive advantages for our businesses, generating new business activities, knowledge and trained personnel, by means of our own corporate innovation model.

Vangurad People

We are a group with a global outreach, one that recognises and promotes talent, regardless of its origin. We are over a hundred cooperatives operating in different sectors. Where would you like to work? Whatever you’re looking for, you’ll find it here. A diversity of profiles that makes us unique.

Vangurad BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

We are the corporate platform whose mission is the development of entrepreneurship, diversification, and the generation of New Business Activities. Our vision leads us to position ourselves in business models with future that favour the competitiveness of our companies, solidary businesses which generate social impact within a framework of great human dimension. It comprises a team of Promoters that manage the start-up of new projects based on the intra-entrepreneurial and inter-cooperation capacities identified, as well as generating alliances and shareholding with other business opportunities identified abroad.

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

By its very nature, our business model is responsible, democratic and sustainable.

Our aim is to promote cooperatives as the world’s foremost socio-business projects. We believe in the cooperative legacy, and besides cooperatives that are more robust and successful, we want coming generations to inherit a model of development that is better for people and the planet. Sustainability is a strategic mainstay for MONDRAGON. Our mission is based on decent, quality employment, health and safety at work, education, sustainable consumption, innovation as the lever for a digital and eco-friendly transition, and support for social and community infrastructures and initiatives. In short, responding to society’s needs lies right at the heart of our Social Transformation.

We are the world’s largest Cooperative Ecosystem in Social Innovation.

We work shoulder-to-shoulder with business and social agents and the public administrations to create an environment of innovation, with our sights set firmly on social transformation. We look for sustainable solutions that will strike a balance between economic growth, environmental protection and social wellbeing.

Changing the world. MONDRAGON has recently been included in Fortune magazine’s “Change the World – 2020” list, being ranked in eleventh position worldwide. This is a honour that acknowledges the efforts companies make in their contribution to the major challenges society faces today.

CERTIFICATIONS

QUALITY

Global impact on companies in INDUSTRY.

3 UNE-EN 9100
certifications
(aerospace)

35 ISO/IATF 16949
certifications
(automotive industry)

137 ISO 9001
certifications

> 90% of sales with a certified quality management system

ENVIRONMENT

2 ISO 50001
certifications

75 ISO 14001
certifications

4 ISO 14006
certifications

75% of sales with an environmental management system.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

2 Healthy Workplace
certificates

45 ISO45001
certifications

55% of workers with a certified occupational health and safety management system.

BASQUE LANGUAGE

50 Bikain Basque
certifications

55% of workers with a certified occupational health and safety management system.

Vangurad SOSTENIBLE

Representa la aportación de la Corporación y sus cooperativas para la construcción de un mundo más sostenible, económica, social, y medioambientalmente.

Se trata principalmente de elaborar diagnósticos y balances sobre la situación medioambiental, social y de género; así como desarrollar metodologías y soluciones para su mejora.

PERTE I Aprobado: 9 cooperativas (Embega, Eroski, Mundukide, Ausolan, Ecenarro, Ategi, MIK, Oiarso-Bexen Medical, Mondragon S. Coop.) han accedido a las ayudas para desarrollar actuaciones entre febrero de 2023 y febrero de 2024.
La inversión total del proyecto asciende a 3.290.648€ de los cuales el PERTE MONDRAGON Sostenible soporta una financiación de 968.058,97€.

PERTE II Aprobado: 10 cooperativas (Oiarso, Ausolan, Embega, Division Componentes, Eroski, Mondragon S. Coop., MIK, Ategi, Mundukide, Fagor Automation).
La inversión total del proyecto asciende a 4.429.203,63€ de los cuales el PERTE MONDRAGON Sostenible soporta una financiación de 1.492.249,94€ para actuaciones entre febrero de 2024 y junio de 2025.

PERTE III Aprobado: 9 cooperativas (Ategi, Mik, Mondragon S.COOP., Ausolagun, Eroski, Urola, Huhezi, Embega, Oiarso).
La inversión total del proyecto asciende a 3.935.727,85€ de los cuales el PERTE MONDRAGON Sostenible se prevé que soporte una financiación de 1.306.328,43€ para actuaciones entre febrero de 2025 y julio de 2025.

Vangurad DIGITAL

Destinado a la promoción de la transformación digital y de la modernización de las cooperativas.

A través de la intercooperación tecnológica y formativa mancomunadas, se están desarrollando actuaciones en temáticas como la IA generativa, plataformas de datos y Big Data Industrial, gemelo digital, ciberseguridad, cliente digital, intralogística, robotización automática de procesos, soluciones empresariales (ERP, MES, CRM, …), etc.

Entre las 3 convocatorias del PERTE, en el ámbito Digital, se han impulsado 5 agrupaciones desde la corporación MONDRAGON. Esta treintena de cooperativas ha movilizado casi 23M€ en proyectos digitales con una ayuda de 4,7M€ aportada por el PERTE.

MONDRAGON alianzas

Proyecto ITACA (PERTE II)

El objetivo del Proyecto ITACA se centra en desarrollar metodologías de intervención, sistemáticas de trabajo y contenidos pedagógicos orientados al fomento del liderazgo y de la cultura cooperativa, así como a la difusión de la experiencia cooperativa en Euskadi, Catalunya y Andalucía.

El proyecto está impulsado por una agrupación formada por MONDRAGON S. Coop., la Federación de Cooperativas de Trabajo de Catalunya, la Confederación de Cooperativas de Catalunya y la Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social. El presupuesto de esta agrupación asciende a 1.786.767,80€ y cuenta con una ayuda del 50%.

MONDRAGON ATRACCIÓN TALENTO

Las cooperativas de Corporación MONDRAGON participan en el Proyecto:
INICIATIVA_ES ECOSISTEMA COOPERATIVO de TALENTO.

El Proyecto INICIATIVA_ES ECOSISTEMA COOPERATIVO de TALENTO pretende desarrollar e implantar un Modelo Integral para generar y atraer nuevo talento y transformar/desarrollar el existente dando respuesta así a los retos de transformación de los negocios y de la sociedad, asegurando la inclusión y la empleabilidad de todas las personas y el arraigo al territorio de las personas jóvenes. Se han identificado 4 retos sociales clave a trabajar con 8 entidades que configuran la agrupación.

La inversión total del proyecto asciende a 1.483.422,83€ de los cuales el PERTE MONDRAGON Talento soporta una financiación de 615.185,11€.

RETO 1: IMPULSO TALENTO, enraizar población joven en el territorio.	Leartibai Fundazioa Leartibai Ikastetxea
RETO 2: TALENTO COOPERATIVO, gobernanza cooperativa. EMBEGA S.Coop.	Ederlan Embega
RETO 3: TALENTO TECNOLÓGICO, atraer, desarrollar y fidelizar talento tecnológico.	Galbaian MONDRAGON
RETO 4: RECUALIFICACIÓN DEL TALENTO, recualificación permanente.	Ederlan Bexen Medical MLAKOOP

El Proyecto INICIATIVA_ES ECOSISTEMA COOPERATIVO de TALENTO cuenta con la financiación del Plan Integral de Impulso a la Economía Social para la Generación de un Tejido Económico, Inclusivo y Sostenible, en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, financiado por la Unión Europea – NextGenerationEU (años 2024 y 2025).

EROSKI

Its remit is the promotion and protection of consumers and, in particular, education and information on consumer affairs. Its main agent is Eroski Consumer, one of the most popular Spanish media on the Internet.

MUNDUKIDE FOUNDATION

Mundukide is a cooperation project involving communities in developing countries, sharing experiences, resources and cooperative know-how in order to boost their self-management and integral development.