— ONLINE COURSE · 5 WEEKS

Live from your art —
without selling out

A 5-week online course in cooperative cultural entrepreneurship for artists, cultural managers, and creative collectives.

Enroll Now — 499€
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Watch how this course can help you turn your creative talent into a sustainable career:

68

Alumni worldwide

34

Countries represented

4h

per week

— WHO IT'S FOR

Made for
practitiones

No formal qualifications required. We welcome anyone engaged with arts, culture, and creative practice in any form.

— DATES

SUMMER COHORT

June 1 - July 5

AUTUMN COHORT

Sept 21 - Oct 25

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— ALUMNI VOICES

What they build

"This course provided me with the blueprint and tools to build a cooperative—but it did so much more, delivering beyond what I had imagined. The workshop offered invaluable guidance and inspiration, thanks to the amazing people who spearheaded the course and their incredible projects, the invited speakers who shared insights from their own co-ops, and the thoughtful activities and exercises in the worksheets. Equally inspiring were the connections I made with the other participants, whose ideas and experiences enriched the entire learning experience."
Max Vargas
From Canada
"Through the course, I have been massively inspired through the subjects covered as well as the lecturers and the guest speakers. The information has also been really insightful but laid out in such a way that it was easy to digest and understand. The structure of the course has been great, especially when fitting it around many other projects it has meant that I could do everything in my own time and the assignments were not too overbearing but all directly relevant with practical application for my future projects."
Jonny Cosmo
From UK
“Thanks to the course, I was able to be a part of a cohort of individuals from around the world, who's drive and passion to create businesses that had the solidarity economy at their heart was inspiring. This pushed me to develop my ideas further and see how I can use this knowledge to develop my project further.”
Josh Coates
From UK
“A key outcome of the course was the creation of an actual project, which resulted from my work throughout the program. The course offered effective tools for developing a cultural project based on cooperative principles, with both economic and social potential.”
Max Vargas
From Canada
SCROLL TO DISCOVER


This 5-weeks-long online course on Cooperative Cultural Entrepreneurship offers an introduction to the notions of co-op businesses in the arts and culture.

This short course targets emerging arts professionals who want to situate themselves and their cultural practice in the solidarity economy, entrepreneurship and cooperativism.

Following two successful editions, the course returns with an updated third edition. Don't miss this opportunity to gain unique skills in cooperative entrepreneurship!

Are you interested? Fill out our form for more information. You will receive a brochure with everything you need to know.

— WHAT YOU'LL BUILD

From a creative idea to a sustainable project in just 5 weeks

The whole course can be completed at your own pace, except for the face-to-face online meetings, which will be pre-scheduled. To successfully complete the course, participants are required to attend a minimum of 80% of these online meetings. The readings, weekly assignments and final assignments will be self-paced by each learner, and the weekly online meeting will be facilitated by the team of educators.

— METHODOLOGY

Cooperative Learning Methodology


This pedagogy is team-oriented, fosters learners’ self-leadership and critical thinking, encourages cross-cultural learning and situates learners’ interests in the centre of the learning process.

Each course has a detailed text with an introduction to the topic, learning objectives and an assignment. The course is composed by:

A curated list of learning materials (articles, books, videos, etc.)

Weekly assignments

Weekly synchronous online meetings lasting for 1 hour each

A final personal project presentation

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— THE TEAM

Taught by practitioners

Oihane Amurrio

Program coordinator and co-designer

Artist, educator and cultural entrepreneur specialized in the field of cooperative entrepreneurship in the arts. Oihane is the Lead Program Developer in Cultural Entrepreneurship at Travelling U.

Caroline Woolard

Guest speaker and co-designer

Artist, educator, writer and community organizer. Caroline is co-founder of Art.coop; and co-author of the books Making and Being, (Pioneer Works, 2019), Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020), and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019.

Grégory Castéra

Guest speaker

Curator, educator, and editor working at the intersection of visual arts, performing arts, and political ecology. He is currently curator-at-large and chief of "Learning from the Commons" at Kanal-Centre Pompidou (Brussels), adviser at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht) and advisor for Kerenidis Pepe (Paris / Athens).

Guerrilla Media Collective

Guest Speaker

A feminist translation cooperative with a strong focus on the commons. They are an international group of professionals dedicated to preserving the art of translation, and we see our cooperative as a tool for providing sustainable, dignified and ethical work to those in the knowledge sector.

Network

The participants joining the online course in Cooperative Cultural Entrepreneurship will be part of:

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About
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. 

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About
Mondragon Team Academy

Travelling U co-founded and is an active collaborator in the Mondragon Team Academy.

Mondragon Team Academy (MTA) is an international community in which more than 2500 team entrepreneurs contribute to creating a global network of social innovation ecosystem laboratories.

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About
Art.coop

Art.coop is a collective that exists to grow an arts/culture movement rooted in solidarity by centering artists and cultural workers making systems-change irresistible.

More about Art.coop

How to Apply?

Enrollment fee: 1099€
Early bird Admission phase: 499€
Limited spots available.

To apply, simply complete your payment through our website. Once the payment is confirmed, you will receive an email with all the next steps and detailed instructions to continue the process.

Please make sure to check your inbox (and spam folder) after completing the payment. Our team will guide you through each step by email.

Application Phase
starts on the 10th of April.


Early bird Admission deadline: 28th of April

Application deadline by: 30th of April