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The Med EMPORION Project supports food markets and market culture, promoting connection and exchange between cities with relevant food markets in the Mediterranean. Research, pilot projects, and open activities like Food Festivals will help the creation of permanent links, awareness raising about their social role as important placemakers and the improvement of their quality and services. Read more [+]
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21-07-2010
“The Market of All Markets”, Barcelona 22-24 October 2010
In the Mediterranean culture, the market has contributed and continues to remain a central theme of city life, not just for the exchange of goods and services, but also as a meeting point and as a place for recreation.
All across the Mediterranean, both northern and southern coasts, the market has become a place of leisure for citizens, thanks to its connotations of healthy and fresh products, and a tourist attraction.
19-07-2010
The Barcelona Pilot Project is launched: “Educating through the markets”.
The Pilot Program of Mercats de Barcelona aiming at transmitting the values of the Market as a social space and a service of proximity to the school, the family and the neighbourhood, has been already executed and evaluated, and after testing its first results, has recently officially presented it for its official launching for the coming academic year.
This project, which has been jointly designed by the Barcelona’s Institute of Markets and the Commercial Department of the Barcelona’s County Council (Diputació de Barcelona), has elaborated a School Syllabus, designing a curricular plan to be implemented in the schools of the Barcelona Province and the city.
18-07-2010
The Global Research on Mediterranean Markets, in motion.
One of the most ambitious objectives of the MED EMPORION project is the undertaking of a global study to increase our knowledge of the markets, their current situation and the challenges of the future.
Various cities will be involved from the majority of Mediterranean countries, on both the north and south shores, chosen for their symbolic and historic features and for their present-day importance.
The Research starts from the premise that markets are among the essential features of the Mediterranean and form historic links between our cities and peoples. We believe that markets embody the living history of the region and are places which bring together many cultural symbols (gastronomic, social and economic) and shared traditions. At the same time, they form a historic and cultural legacy which we must protect and which we must care for in the future, as important symbols of our identity.
15-05-2010
The Pilot Project of Barcelona
The Pilot Program of Mercats de Barcelona tries to transmit the values of the Market is a social space and a service of proximity to the school, the family and the citizenship.
The proposal is based on the educational work with the schools, including activities to implicate the family and the neighbourhood.