Mission

The Lanki Institute’s raison d’être is to research and reflect on the co-operative movement and self-management, focusing mainly on social, educational and legal aspects.

It is research carried out from inside the Mondragón Co-operative Experience, favouring the understanding of the experience itself, in the light of the most extensive and up-to-date multidisciplinary knowledge possible. It is a work of systematisation and reflection that has to combine close contact with those involved in the co-operative and self-management experience at all levels with a knowledge of social sciences and a rigorous reading of the changing global reality in which the co-operative movement operates.

The institute operates as a research, reflection and education service offered in concentric circles, starting with the University of Mondragón itself, the MCC, the Basque co-operative or self-management movement, and different agents at the international level.