Nearly twenty students of IES Rambla de Nogalte create a cooperative business through the course 'Introduction Administrative Professional' with plants that sell handicrafts and products.
Students have participated in the weekly market to sell the products of the cooperative.
The Rambla de Puerto Lumbreras Nogalte institute participates in the EJE project (Young European Enterprise) with the aim to introduce students to the entrepreneurial culture and business processes.
Thus, the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Maria Angeles Tunisia, and the general director of Citizen Participation, European Union External Action, Manuel Pleguezuelo, visited the stand of the students, installed at the weekly market.
Specifically, about twenty students of 4th of ESO participating in the project that offers young people create and manage their own mini-company, including the development of a catalog of products offered to customers, and import and export products to other companies created in school classrooms in other schools.
The legal form chosen is the cooperative society.
Thus, the cooperative created established trade relations with mini-companies from other regions or countries.
It should be noted that young people have participated in the weekly Friday market where they sold the products of the cooperative, and then analyze the results and sharing the profits like any real company.
In this case, young people will allocate 20% of profits to a local charity.
According to the Councillor for Education, Sonia Lopez, "This project aims to train students in business to know the operation of enterprises".
In addition, he stressed that "the EJE project has very positive results in schools where it has been launched."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras