Around 2,700 primary and secondary students gathered yesterday in downtown Murcia to celebrate 'Minimarket 2014', by selling products they sell cooperatives created during the course as part of educational programs' A company in my school '(EME) and' Young European Company (EJE).
The mayor of Jumilla, Enrique Jimenez, and the Councillor for Economy and Employment, Almudena Martinez attended this market, in which four cooperatives students Jumilla from IES Infanta Elena and CEIP Prince Felipe centers, exhibited their products, culminating and the proyectoempresarial who have worked on over the course of 9 months.
Enrique Jimenez, said in this regard, "it is a fantastic initiative for young people to learn the meaning of entrepreneurship, and the importance of good coordination between the different elements of an enterprise, fostering, professional skills as cooperation are at work, or planning. "
This market ends the joint initiative of the Departments of Education, Culture and Universities and Industry, Tourism, Enterprise and Innovation, through the Institute of Development, which has allowed for the course around 3,000 students of 86 schools are familiar with the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial spirit skills learned by practice of setting up a business in the classroom.
Specifically, in the EME program involved 1,804 schoolchildren from 46 primary schools which constituted 68 companies, 62 of which have participated in the 'Minimarket' school businesses today.
Also in the HUB program are 1,088 secondary students who participated, from 40 centers, and created 57 cooperatives, 51 are present in the activity held in Murcia.
These programs, in addition to the entrepreneurial spirit and sense of initiative and teamwork, help students to develop their skills of linguistic communication, mathematics, science and technology, as well as their social and civic through active learning skills.
In this fifth edition of 'Minimarket' students sell the products of their firms in 113 posts installed on Liberty Avenue de Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla