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Hi, a second degree cooperative is owned by 50% by workers and the other 50% from other cooperatives that are usually our clients. As we are a research center, is a way to have a "close relationship" with those companies and to focus our research into their areas of interest or develop new prototypes for them.

Well I think the main idea is sanitize it first (at least they are trying) then I suppose that they will be able to "add" more people to the cooperative. From Lagun Aro I do not have exact numbers sorry but I know that the main idea is to have +-60%. For example, right now in my company we are at 50% of people with vote rights because an unprecedented grow in last years (went from 250 to 340 workers in 4 years) with the idea to go back to 60% little by little depending on market conditions.

Here are some positive links about Eroski from spanish newpapers.

- https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2019/05/23/companias/...

- https://www.larazon.es/economia/eroski-cierra-2018-con-benef...

Yes, We have some IT positions right now. My current position is Artificial Intelligence team leader on the ICT area and we are seeking for Full Stack engineers/researchers and Data Scientists.

Moreover, we also offer always the possibility to do a PhD in different domains. (power converters, batteries, embedded electronics, safety critical systems, wireless technologies, IoT , AI, etc). In my team we have 4 PhD students right now in collaboration with different universities.

I think this is more related to each company status (and laws). Eroski almost broke and is in "survival mode" right now.

As I know the general objective is to be around 60-70%.

If you study on the university by itself I would say that is easier to have a "first contact" with the companies that form the Corporation. However, were I work, more than 70% of the work force have studied outside Mondragon university.

Hi,

greetings from a worker that work at Ikerlan (a research/technological center part of the corporation). We are a second degree cooperative. Formed by workers and companies that we work for. You can see things that we do at https://www.ikerlan.es/en/

Happy to answer to questions if I can :)