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Abstract

Entrepreneurship training programs are good examples of active and Project Based Learning (PBL) learning methods. The Mondragon Team Academy is a case of radical application of these concepts. In 1992 at Jyväskylä (Finland), Johannes Partanen, a marketing teacher at the Applied Sciences University (JAMK), started a new idea in entrepreneurship education: no classrooms, no students, no teachers, no academic books, no exams: it was Tiimiakatemia. In 2008, Mondragon University at the Basque country (Spain), transferred the model into the official national higher education system. Some facts about Mondragon Team Academy (M.T.A.) are: three countries (Spain, Mexico, China), ten ecosystem labs, seventy-three team companies created, 743 teampreneurs, more than one million euros of generated revenue, two thousand books read every year… MTA mission is to develop an international community of young team entrepreneur, multicultural leaders and change makers with a global mindset and local commitment, rooted in strong values on co-creation, learning by doing, teamwork, solidarity and cooperation. This document analyses the experience.