Escola Petit Món Felisa Bastida

A cooperative school with a social mission

Escola Petit Món Felisa Bastida is a cooperative school in Castelldefels, Barcelona province, serving preschool, elementary, and secondary students. It describes itself as a socially minded school working toward a better society through values such as equality, fairness, honesty, transparency, solidarity, responsibility, inclusion, and social change.

School-developed programs

• Student cooperatives: students, with support from teachers, create and run cooperative businesses based on the seven international cooperative principles. The school has six cooperatives in elementary school and 14 in secondary school.
• Vitruvi@: a program for ages 3–16 that develops expression, invention, curiosity, initiative, and independence through programming, robotics, technology, design, movement, creativity, visual arts, and music.
• Sustainable Development Goals: students learn about the goals and build skills for global citizenship.
• Emotional learning and the KiVa method: strategies for a respectful school climate, including the Finnish KiVa anti-bullying program.
• Sumem veus: a project that encourages families to participate in classrooms and builds a school community open to the surrounding area.
• Cooperative learning network: students connect with peers locally and internationally through assemblies, shared activities, trips, exchanges, video calls, and cross-school projects.

Partnerships and educational networks

The school belongs to EscolesCoop, an association of cooperative schools, is represented in AlumnesCoop, and is part of Fundació Tr@ms. It works with eTwinning, Salut i Escola, and Castelldefels educational services and participates in research teams with UAB, IEC, SCP, the University of Turku in Finland, the University of Toronto, and Academica International Studies.

Activities and current projects

Activities include Cultural Week and school trips. An MIT student has visited through a program involving eight schools. Students in 10th grade technology and arts tracks also spend three days at UPC in Barcelona working with the MIT team.

Location and contact

Address: Avinguda Diagonal, 45, 08860 Castelldefels. Phone: 93 665 18 15. Email: escola@petitmon.cat. Instagram: @escola.petitmonfelisabastida. Facebook: petitmonfelisabastida.