Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu began his institutional trip to Mexico with the inauguration, this Monday of the University of Mondragon-UCO campus in Queretaro. It is a new educational project from the alliance between Mondragon International Education – MEI (Basque Country) and the Contemporary University in Queretaro (Mexico). At the event, Urkullu indicated that the new university marks a new milestone in the internationalization of the Basque Country. The inauguration was also attended by the President of Mondragon University, Josu Zabala; the Delegate of Euskadi in Mexico, Ibon Mendibelzua; members of the Basque community and representatives of Basque businesses in the area.
Queretaro, Mexico. On his first day in Mexico, Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu attended the inauguration of the Mondragon University-UCO in the city of Maderas, Queretaro. During the event, the Lehendakari describe the Mondragon model as a genuine training model, based on the company-university link that provides first-rate training for people that later guarantees their employment.
Urkullu also said that this strategic Alliance with the Contemporary University in Queretaro opens an “innovative door,” that will contribute to the promotion of the Basque Country brand in the world. “We are a small country and opening up to the outside is part of our history and our way of being.”
Basque labeling
On the campus of the new University, the facilities are labeled in Basque, Spanish and English and its curriculum also includes international materials for face-to-face as well as online courses from other universities that will allow students to compete anywhere in the world. Additionally, its education model, unique in Mexico, provides all students the possibility to make exchanges with Mondragon University and other universities with which they have an agreement, as well as choose two years of experience in a business with academic support or to incubate their own business proposal as part of the entrepreneurship model.
The University currently has around 500 students and hopes to increase its enrollment to 4,000 by 2019.
With Peña Nieto
In other trip news, the Lehendakari also attended the Mexico Business Summit 2014, where he had the opportunity to great Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto. Urkullu shared the presidential table with him as well as other prominent figures, such as the governors of Queretaro, Jalisco, and Morelos, the Secretary of Mexico’s Foreign Affairs, Jose Antonio Meade and former Polish President, Lech Walesa and Paula Portas, the Vice-Prime Minister of Portugal among others.
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