Postgraduate in Cooperative Cultural Entrepreneurship
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Accredited by Mondragon University.
Cooperative Cultural Entrepreneurship is a training course of 1 year of duration for emerging arts professionals who want to create new cultural businesses framed in the solidarity economy and cooperativism.
How do we do it?
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The Postgraduate is cooperatively run by Travelling U and Art.coop and accredited by Mondragon University combining experiential and project-based learning.
- Duration: 9 months
- ECT Credits: 60
- Format: Hybrid
➝ 3 months in-person in Bilbao
➝ 3 months hybrid with 1-week-long Cultural Immersions to Madrid and Berlin
➝ 3 months hybrid for project prototyping and launch - Language: English
- Enrollment fee: TBD
How do we do it?
Cooperative Learning Methodology
Who is this programme for?
➝ Artists, creatives, and cultural agents who want to transform their practice into a cooperative business.
➝ Entrepreneurs and business professionals seeking to enter the cultural sector with social and innovative ideas.
➝ Solidarity economy enthusiasts ready to implement their knowledge through real-world projects.
Why join this programme?
PROFESSIONALISE YOUR PRACTICE
Develop your cultural projects into sustainable and impactful businesses.
COOPERATIVE BUSINESS MODELS IN THE ARTS AND CULTURE
Learn to implement ethical, solidarity-based frameworks and decision-making processes.
CROSS-CULTURAL LEARNING
Experience different creative ecosystems in Bilbao, Madrid, and Berlin.
PERSONALISED MENTORSHIP
Year-long access to expert mentors from the cultural and cooperative sectors.
The five
modules
- TEAM & VALUES
1 Month
Face-to-face in Bilbao The first module will serve to lay the foundations of the programme. Participants will explore their life paths and reflect on where they come from and where they want to go individually and collectively. This module aims to question the concept of “development”, to familiarise participants with the notions of cooperative values and solidarity economy, and to introduce theories around team practices. It will also lay the foundations for cultural cooperative entrepreneurship. - RESEARCH & IDEATION
1 Month
Face-to-face in Bilbao In the second module, participants will begin to research different ideas for cooperative business models. To do so, they will conduct case studies of cooperatives in the art field and demystify artists as starving or sellout artists. - BUSINESS CREATION
1 Month
Face-to-face in Bilbao In the third module, participants will prototype their cooperative business models in real-life contexts. - COOP MANAGEMENT
3 Months
Hybrid & learning journeys to international ecosystemsIn the fourth module, participants will focus on cooperative management, the integration of cooperative leadership and leadership thinking, team entrepreneurship, agile methodologies and teamwork dynamics. - ACCELERATION PROCESS
3 Months
HybridIn the fifth module, participants will work on strategic thinking, establish specific goals and create a plan to achieve and measure the objectives.
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About the Academic Institutions
Travelling U
Travelling U is an educational cooperative that designs cross-cultural learning experiences based on three main pillars: collaborative learning, human-centred leadership and cooperative entrepreneurship. Travelling U co-founded and is an active collaborator in the Mondragon Team Academy World (MTA), an international network gathering currently 2500 team entrepreneurs and young change leaders all over the world.
Mondragon University
Mondragon University is a non-profit cooperative university in the Basque Country, established in 1997. It belongs to the MONDRAGON Corporation, with a clear human vocation and a commitment to our environment, society and time. Mondragon University embodies cooperative values in its function, learning methodology, and decision-making processes.
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- Duration: 9 months
- ECT Credits: 60
- Format: Hybrid
➝ 3 months in-person in Bilbao
➝ 3 months hybrid with 1-week-long Cultural Immersions to Madrid and Berlin
➝ 3 months hybrid for project prototyping and launch - Language: English
- Enrollment fee: TBD