If you still don't know what ECOOPE is, you are going to learn a bit more about this EU co-funded project in the following posts. After our week at Valnalón teaching the co-operative values to secondary students from Portugal and Spain, the ECOOPE Higher Education pilot...
Day #5 - The final challenge The last day of the ECOOPE pilot finally came: the work we did through the week was shown today - we reflected the teamwork spirit very well! Prior to presenting our ideas we had some time to make final adjustments and...
Day #4 - Hardwork and fun Our fourth day at the ECOOPE pilot at Valnalón was hard: First we had to do some more prototyping (v 2.0), then we had the expert panel feedback and with that feedback we did some more prototyping (v 3.0) -...
Day #3: Prototyping or "DIY" day On the third day we learned how design thinking can help us find new ways to solve problems: trying to help an astronaut drink some juice while seating was a challenge: we had to use cardboard paper, scissors and build...
Day #2: Call me "team" First we were explained what social economy is and then ASATA (Social Economy and Labour Companies Association in Asturias) posed the co-operative challenge for the week: how could we introduce co-operatives to secondary students like us. We met the mentors and were...
