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Check out the Third Press Release of MyDigiCoop!
- February 2023
We are excited to announce that the third and final release of the MyDigiCoop project has been published! Over the past several months, our partners have been hard at work putting the finishing touches! We are thrilled to share the outcomes with you!
MyDigiCoop Fourth Newsletter is out!
- February 2023
The fourth and final Newsletter of MyDigiCoop project has been released. Find out how the last months of the project were carried out and the outcomes achieved!
All wrapped up here.
MyDigiCoop Partners Met for the Last Time Face-to-Face for the Final Meeting of the Project and Multiplier Event in Bilbao!
- February 2023
ACEEU finally had the opportunity to meet with MyDigiCoop partners face-to-face after working together for almost 2 year as its final transnational project meeting was held at Mondragon University in Bilbao, Spain. Hosted by HUHEZI, the event was organized on February 10, 2023, and attended by project partners. As MyDigiCoop project is finishing at the end of February 2023, the meeting offered an opportunity for partners to discuss the final steps before concluding the project. During the visit at Mondragon, partners also had a chance to visit a Mondragon Corporation to see how social cooperative entrepreneurship is implemented both and internationally.
Prior to the meeting, the consortium also joined HUHEZI in their International Conference “Social and Cooperative Economy in Higher Education” which was organized as the Multiplier Event of the project. The event was hosted in AsFabrik, one of the campuses of Mondragon University in Bilbao, Spain. The program for the day included several notable speakers, including the Rector of Mondragon University, Vicente Atxa, and Nagore Ipiña, the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at Mondragon University. The Spanish Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, also joined the event online to discuss the topic of social and cooperative economy in higher education with a special focus on the case of Spain and Spanish universities in the 21st century. Other than the disseminating the results produced in the project, some good practices from Germany, Finland, Romania and Spain on how social cooperative entrepreneurship can be further promoted were also shared. Overall, the event was a great success. Not only did it achieve its objectives, but it also provided space and opportunity for discussion and exchange of experiences on the relevance and importance of social economy and cooperative work in higher education.
MyDigiCoop Training Event in Helsinki!
- February 2023
A three-day training event for the project MydigiCoop was organised by Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences on 25th January to 27th January, 2023. The days were organised according to specific themes.The theme for Day-1 was “Introduction to Social Cooperative Entrepreneurship”. Beside introducing each partner’s role in social cooperative entrepreneurship, partners also visited Start-Up School, which supports both entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs by offering various courses and events for them. Our partners learned about the activities of our Start-Up School and enjoyed the visit.
The theme of Day 2 was “Sharing Best Practices”. We started the day by playing a new business game activity, which was led by ULBS. The goal of the game was to discover entrepreneurship education learning goals and the learning focussed on the process from an idea to establishment of an entrepreneurial university. In the afternoon, ACEEU representatives and co-founders of “Closd”, a start-up company in Muenster, Germany shared the German social entrepreneurial eco-system, and their social impact hubs and start-up accelerators. They also discussed about their excellent, sustainable company offering and their future plans.
The theme of Day 3 was “Innovative Co-production”, which was led by the representative of ACEEU, founder of Digital Mente. The theme of the workshop was effective digital communication for promoting social entrepreneurship (SE). Partners learnt about the role of social media in promoting SE, identifying best practices and success stories in using social media for SE ventures, content marketing and creating engaging social media content for SE initiatives.
The training event created a mutual beneficial opportunity for partners to learn a lot about social cooperative entrepreneurship model in different countries. We hope that social cooperative entrepreneurship model receives more recognition in the years to come as we believe it is the way forward towards a sustainable society.
Second Press Release has been published!
- January 2023
Are you interested in finding out what the project has achieved in its first year? Read the project summary and updates in this second press release.
Join our Multiplier Event in Bilbao!
- January 2023
MyDigiCoop project is thrilled to announce that on February 9, 2023, the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of Mondragon University will host an international conference that will serve as a Multiplier Event of the project.
The Spanish Minister of Universities Joan Subirats will participate online in the conference, which will be held at Bilbao AS Fabrik.
The conference will focus on the international MyDigiCoop project, which was led by the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of Mondragon University. It will have three main objectives: first, to discuss the importance and relevance of working on the social economy and cooperativism at the university level and in other types of higher education; second, to create a space for reflection; and finally, to share current experiences in Europe.
The event will also meet one of the objectives of all participating organizations which is to disseminate and promote the socio-cooperative mentality among students and teachers in higher education.
Are you residing in Bilbao or nearby and interested in learning about an open interactive platform to train higher education students in the empowerment of cooperative social entrepreneurship and passionate about promoting cooperative social entrepreneurship in higher education? If yes, come and join us!
The conference is open to the public but is aimed particularly at those interested in the dissemination and promotion of the socio-cooperative mindset especially among students and educators in higher education, such as teaching staff, research staff and students who wish to work on this topic at the university, as well as agents of the social economy.
MyDigiCoop Third Newsletter is out!
- November 2022
Are you interested in discovering the progress the project has made in creating the Manual for Teachers?
Meanwhile, if you want to know more about the project upcoming events in Finland and Spain, check our third issue of MyDigiCoop Newsletter!
MyDigiCoop Second Newsletter is out!
- September 2022
Are you curious about how far we have come in developing our interactive platform?
Would you like to learn more about our next steps to further promoting socio-cooperative entrepreneurship?
Read the second issue of our newsletter!
Validation of the module’ content has been carried out!
- June 2022
ACEEU and MyDigiCoop partners proudly announce that the project has achieved another milestone of the project!
A couple months ago, the project communicated the first look of its E-Learning platform. Now, the learning modules which is part of the personalized learning paths created to facilitate the education and training of social-cooperative entrepreneurs are being finalized and soon to be uploaded to the learning platform.
The team in HUHEZI, KVC, ULBS and Haaga-Helia have been working their best to create the content and make sure that the modules meet their expectation. Two validation sessions have been conducted in Spain and Romania with students and teachers in order to gain feedback to improve them. The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu – Romania (ULBS) invited 11 people, from whom 3 were teachers and 8 were students. The Faculty of Humanities and Education of Mondragon University- Spain (HUHEZI) invited 10 people, from whom 3 were teachers and 7 were students.
In the validation sessions, the participants were introduced to the platform and briefly reviewed the content of the modules that have been uploaded. Afterward, they completed questionnaires to evaluate the use of the platform and the clarity and usefulness of the modules.
In general, the validation sessions generated good results. The participants find the quality of the platform and how the learning modules are presented with very satisfactory level of satisfaction. The usefulness and effectiveness are well valued. Thanks to the participants, they gave very useful feedback and suggestions which will be implemented accordingly for the improvement of the platform.
MyDigiCoop First Newsletter has been published!
- June 2022
What has been taking place in the project so far?
What results are being produced?
Read the summary of the first year of the project in the newly released Newsletter.
- July 2021
Following the “Kick-off” Meeting, the MyDigiCoop project released its first Press Release. Read more about the project, its objective and current stage by clicking at the button below.
‘Kicking-off’ the Creation of Personalized Digital Learning Paths to Foster Social-Cooperative Entrepreneurship with MyDigiCoop Project
- April 2021
MyDigiCoop project partners are elated to announce the official start of the MyDigiCoop project. The project is part of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership KA2 Call which is a response call for the Covid-19 pandemic.
The overarching aim of the project is to promote social-cooperative entrepreneurship in higher education (HE) by equipping HE professionals with innovative online tools and competencies to foster social-cooperative entrepreneurship among their students.
The first official Transnational Meeting was held online on Friday, 23 April 2021. It was attended by 16 participants from the 6 institutions involved in the project partnership i.e. The Faculty of Humanities and Education of Mondragon University- Spain (HUHEZI), the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu – Romania (ULBS), and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Science – Finland (HAAGA-HELIA) while the other 3 partners are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): Senior Europa Sociedad Limitad – Spain (K-Veloce), Gestionet Multimedia – Spain (Gestionet), and Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities – Germany (ACEEU).
During the meeting, each partner introduced and communicated their roles and responsibilities in the projects as well as their action plan for their respective intellectual outputs. Following the Kick-Off meeting, the MyDigiCoop partnerships will begin the work of their first output which is the development of an Open Iterative Platform aimed at equipping educational professionals in empowering social-cooperative entrepreneurs.
Stay tuned for more updates!