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REPORT 2016 / 2017 www.mondragon.edu/huhezi [ 2 ] INDEX INDEX 01 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES 4 02 ACADEMIC REPORT 12 - DEGREES 13 - POST-GRADUATE STUDIES AND ONGOING TRAINING 16 - RESEARCH AND TRANSFER 20 03 ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL SITUATION 22 04 GOVERNING BODIES 24 05 HUHEZI STAFF 26 INDEX [ 3 ] INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES 01 During the 2016-2017 academic Over these 40 years we have witnessed the excellent development year the Mondragon University’s of an institution. From being a college set up to address the needs of Faculty of Humanities and Basque-speaking teachers, to a faculty for studies and research relating to Education celebrated its 40th communication, culture, co-operativism and education at its core. On the way anniversary. So it is now four we have adapted the degrees to Bologna, offered university Master’s degrees, decades since the Teacher established the PhD pathway and begun to run online degree courses. And Training College of Eskoriatza all this without forgetting that our most important values include applied was set up back in 1976. To research and the close relationship we have with schools. mark the occasion we organised numerous events under the By strengthening our mission and tackling the challenges in the strategic slogan 40 Years Impacting plan agreed together during the 2015-2016 academic year, we embarked on upon Basque Society. strategic projects during this academic year. One significant milestone in our strategic plan was to set up a robust pedagogical project by promoting the development of the Mendeberri 2025 framework. Following the main lines specified in the pedagogical framework and taking the co-operative nature of the university as the basis, we devoted our energies towards transforming the degree courses with the aim of designing a robust education value proposition. In addition, we wanted to bolster people development, and the involvement and commitment of all our members of staff in the designs, and the participatory processes have been key aspects to be able to develop all these processes. The second milestone is in knowledge transfer and in the framework of research development; we set up projects in education innovation; in addition, various convergences took place in the area of knowledge pertaining to co-operativism in project specification, and we succeeded in specifying robust projects. All these things take place through networking processes involving internal and external alliances. In line with the challenges we specified within the strategic plan, we report below on the most salient data and events of the 2016-2017 academic year. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES [ 5 ] To celebrate this special anniversary we organised many students doing a second degree / mention course and fun and academic events. Firstly, we published the book 44 students doing a degree online. So we had a total of written by our teacher Iñigo Ramirez de Okariz and 220 students in the online mode. released the documentary produced by our Audiovisual Communication students Iñaki de Bilbao and Adrian We had a total of 1,090 students on the classroom- Alonso. The book and the documentary cover the entire based/teacher-led and blended mode degree courses. 40-year-history of our faculty. In the area of official post-graduate degrees, four Among other things, the leading expert Richard Gerver official Master’s degrees were offered in 2016-2017: a also delivered a lecture entitled Education: the simple University Master’s that qualifies teachers in Statutory thinking behind a complex future and Ruper Ordorika Secondary Education and the Sixth Form, Vocational gave a concert in the cloister of the Eskoriatza campus. At Training, and Language Teaching; a University Master’s the end of the academic year the anniversary celebration in Education in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts ended with a meeting of present and past colleagues. (EKOMU); a University Master’s in the Development of Methodological Innovation Projects in Educational As far as the academic area is concerned, in classroom- Establishments (BERRIMET); and a University Master’s in based/teacher-led degree studies we had a total of 870 Social Economy and Cooperative Enterprises (MCOOP), students in Pre-primary Education, Primary Education run in collaboration with the Faculty of Business and Audiovisual Communication. Administration in Oñati. In addition to the classroom-based/teacher-led degrees, There were a total of 204 students on the post- upgrading courses were also offered in blended mode graduate courses (doing official Master’s degrees and (giving those who had previously obtained a diploma in-house qualifications). Four official university Master’s the chance to upgrade to a degree). We had a total of degrees and four expert qualifications were offered: 25 students. Furthermore, the chance to do, online, a the university expert qualification in Co-operativism, second degree or mention and a full degree course were the university expert qualification in the Transmission of offered during the academic year. We had a total of 151 Cultural Activity, the university expert qualification for [ 6 ] INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES Sports Educator and the university expert qualification in defended their PhD theses. We have 42 PhD holders at Strategies to Revive Autochthonous Languages. the HUHEZI faculty (52.5% of the internal staff). And in the area of ongoing training too, a lot of work was With respect to student mobility, 134 students went carried out in the spheres of Education, Communication abroad to study or to do curricular teaching practice/ and Co-operation. Worthy of mention is the fact that work experience. 59 of them went to spend a semester the LANKI Institute of Co-operative Research gave 74 at an international university (in Europe, in particular), 43 training sessions in cooperative training (with 1,258 did teaching practice/work experience in Europe and 32 participants). Furthermore, the first edition of the “The in Latin America. Co-operative Factory”, the programme to promote social entrepreneurship and social economy, took place 24 students from abroad came to us as part of the within ‘the programme to promote the strengthening of mobility programmes: 19 students were studying in the competitiveness of the Business Base’ of the Chartered international programme and 5 students were doing Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. teaching practice/work experience. In the field of research, there was significant participation As every year, this year, too, we organised a host of by researchers in seminars and congresses, and we conferences. The 12th edition of the Komunikaldia can say that abundant results were also yielded in the conference was held this year. The conference this area of publications. 18 articles were published (6 of academic year was within the context of the 40th them in impact journals), and so were 2 complete books anniversary events: “Komunikaldia: Sports, Media and and 11 book chapters. 39 papers and articles were also Gender”. presented at conferences across the world and in Spain; we participated in 20 research projects and in 43 transfer And then the 10th edition of the Huhezinema film festival initiatives in public and private institutions. was organised from 29 to 31 March at the Arkupe hall in Aretxabaleta. The Festival consolidated its success The day-release policy of previous years to work on PhD going back many years in terms of the number of films theses also yielded results, and three HUHEZI teachers submitted in this edition, the invitees who attended the INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES [ 7 ] festival and the media coverage. Within the space of a Huhezinema the Quality Short Film Festival certificate. decade, 853 short and feature films have been screened This recognition was awarded for the support our festival during the festival. A total of 95 awards have been gives to cinema and short films and its distribution work. presented, and 43,900 euros have been distributed in the form of prizes. A total of 158 students have been The LANKI Institute of Co-operative Research organised involved in organising the festival. As far as sponsors are the 5th Symposium on Co-operativism on the Eskoriatza concerned, the festival has received funding from 68 campus. It was entitled “Challenges of Co-operative companies and institutions. Governance” and was attended by about 80 co-operative and social players. Apart from the screenings in Aretxabaleta, screenings were also organised at the Herri Antzokia in Ordizia and The HUHEZI Sports Service had 326 users and was at the Bilbao Innovation Factory (BBF). In addition to the used over 2,000 times in the 2016-2017 academic year. Festival’s regular sections –Official Section, Mondragon Compared with the previous years, the participation University Students Section and the Culinary section–, in of HUHEZI students and staff had fallen somewhat. 2017, for the second time, Huhezinema was a showcase However, “the promoting of health” continued to be the for the latest trends in international filmmaking thanks to main strategic line of the service, without neglecting the co-operation started with the International Donostia- excursions, courses, sports, competitions and leisure San Sebastian Film Festival. activities. In the future, too, the main challenge facing the Sports Service will be to increase the number of users To round off this special anniversary, the Spanish and to encourage the participation of women, above all. Association of the Short Film Industry (AEC) awarded [ 8 ] INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES HISTORICAL NOTES. CHRONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE teachers without certificates in public 1996 1976 schools obtained their diplomas. A total Special Needs Education. The teaching A Teacher Training College was set of 700 school teachers without certif- speciality aimed at children with special up in Eskoriatza (Gipuzkoa). In an icates completed their studies at the educational needs came into being. At a endeavour to solve the grave problem Teacher Training College in Eskoriatza.
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