An initiative from the IMMB and the Barcelona Provincial Council's Department of Commerce, its aim is to educate young people regarding the healthy lifestyle that can be found at municipal markets. The program consists in pedagogic materials and activities for the classroom, and includes markets visits and a specifically-designed website.  

 The educational program "Menjo de Mercat" was initially conceived as a pilot project developed within the framework of the European Med Emporion project and financed through the EU Med program. During this summer, the Barcelona Institute of Markets has made a balance of this first experience, and its success has motivated its definitive implementation for this scholar year, but reaching this time more schools and students. This is one more of the outputs of the MED EMPORION project that will be institutionalized, ensuring this way the sustainability of the activities implemented during the project and the appropriate planning and conception made at the beginning.

During the last year have taken part to this pedagogical activity 50 school centres, 95 students groups making for a total of 4.119 students, that visited 32 markets of the city. These figures confirm that the new educational program has been very well received by the schools this year. 

The purpose of the Program is to convey the values of the Market as a social space and a service of proximity to the school, the family and the citizenship. The proposal is based on educational work with the schools, including activities to implicate the family and the neighbourhood. It involves the students of both stages of basic education: Primary and Secondary, from 6 to 16 years.

Among other tools, the students work with an interactive web page: they can make their homework linked with the subject, upload their own videos and download other ones, read documents and learn about the nutritional values of the products, food markets, receipts and much more.

You can find more info on this educational program at: http://www.menjodemercat.cat/