Mondragon University (MU) was created in 1997 promoted by three educational cooperatives endorsed by an extensive trajectory and experience in teaching which dates back to 1943. At present, 4 faculties constitute it: Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences. MU’s activity is distributed in 9 campuses located in the Basque Country and 8 entrepreneurship laboratories, 4 of them in Spain and 4 in China, India, Mexico, and Korea. Altogether, the university has 6.400 undergraduate, master, and doctoral students, over 7.000 professionals in continuous education and around 1.000 staff.
MU has its own innovative educational model designed to respond to the new needs of society. A model based on a multidisciplinary approach, in which, in addition to the technical skills of the disciplines, soft skills such as leadership, teamwork, communication, problem solving, decision making, etc., are incorporated in the curricula facilitated using active learning methodologies, such as Problem and Project Based Learning, among others.