Plaça d'Alfons Comín will host the School Cooperative Market on Monday, May 13, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. At the Market, located in the middle of the Monday market, 17 cooperatives corresponding to 10 of the 11 schools in the municipality will participate. The cooperatives will sell products that the cooperative members have made in their business projects. In addition, the Gaudí Architect School will sell tickets for a show they are preparing, 'Tales around the world'.

In each cooperative, everyone is a member and they decide together how much money to put in, which product to market, etc. and they will sell at the Cooperative Market what they have manufactured. Businessmen and women from the city's schools have learned how to do their projects through the Programa Entrepreneurial Culture in Schools (CuEmE), of the Diputació de Barcelona.

This initiative, integrated within the Municipal Program of Educational Activities (PMAE) promotes the entrepreneurial spirit and basic skills in the higher cycle of primary education thanks to the support of the Provincial Council of Barcelona .

The schools participating for the first time (Mestral, Nadal, Falguera and Mare de Deu de la Mercè schools) will receive a recognition plaque for their participation in the CuEmE Program.

Entrepreneurial Culture at School

Through CuEmE, students create and manage a school cooperative for a year with the support of various local entities, including the school, the City Council, businesses and other organizations. Using the project work methodology, 5th and 6th grade students learn through action and put their knowledge, skills and attitudes into practice in a real context. This approach not only works on the key skills of the curriculum, such as linguistic, mathematical, artistic and digital, but also promotes entrepreneurial competence, autonomy and personal initiative.