countries. And this would facilitate the interrelation with companies.In 1963, works began on the new Professional School in Iturripe, designed to house 1,500 students who would gradually reach the degree of Official, High Level Vocational Cycle studies, and Technical Engineering, officially inaugurated in 1967. An important peculiarity was that the School's partners belonged to the cooperative and non-cooperative companies of the Valley, the teachers, and also the students, having the three parties representation in the Assembly and the Governing Council. At that time, he developed the MEDUO University Project - School Association of the University of Oñati - which it made public in 1965, taking as historical endorsement the old Sancti Spiritus University, created in 1545 and in operation until 1902. Its decentralized and joint proposal foresaw locating engineering related to mechanics, electronics and machine tools in Mondragon, commerce and business administration degrees in Oñati, and chemicals linked to the textile industry in Bergara. In addition, he proposed a "popular and social" university, which should pay attention to the practical application of the principle of equal educational opportunities, so that it would be a driving force for development through the institutionalization of lifelong learning. The project turned out to be too ambitious for the time, and it was not until 1997 that the current Mondragon University was established. County Cooperative Group In the Laboral Kutxa's Annual Report of 1961, Arizmendiarrieta explained his ideas on intra- and inter-cooperative cooperation as an element of solidarity to achieve personal and collective promotion. He proposed an adequate process of capitalization by indirect means, and at the same time an indispensable formula of development through industrial concentration. The directors of ULGOR led and developed the idea, which resulted in the constitution of a co-brand group called Ularco, which included the industrial cooperatives of the Alto Deba Valley. Initially, it would be made up of the industrial companies ULGOR, Arrasate, Copreci and Ederlan, constituting a federal union of cooperatives, with a similar orientation to the groups of capitalist companies, with the difference that in these the power was vertical and configured by the arithmetic majority of the capital, while in the Ularco Group the power was rooted in a pact of cession of sovereignty. One of the greatest achievements of collective solidarity of Arizmendiarrieta with the creation of the Group in 1964 was to implement the "reconversion of results" between all the partners of the different