Food for health

Sant Benet vegetable gardens

The primary goal of the organic farm at Sant Benet vegetable gardens is the job placement of individuals at risk of social exclusion, especially youths, and thus improve their living conditions and have access to a better future.

MANS Cooperative

The MANS social cooperative works the land in conjunction with Catalan farmers to produce, transform and sell organic products with the goal of creating jobs for individuals with difficulties, especially youths at risk of exclusion and people with intellectual disabilities or mental disorders, and helping them in the social and job integration process and thus improve their living conditions and have access to a better future.

School projects

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation takes advantage of the research and knowledge of the Alícia Foundation to work with schools in such an important field as food via three different strands: healthy habits, discovery and historical cuisine.

Additionally, it works to improve students’ healthy living habits through cooking and encouraging physical activity.

Collective and social catering

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation, through the Alícia Foundation, has developed strategies and actions to adapt the food served to schools and residences for the elderly.

This task has focused on improving products from a nutritional point of view, as well as encouraging the consumption of local and seasonal products.

Training and workshops

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation, through the Alícia Foundation, is offering workshops that are a quintessential outreach tool to share knowledge, research, projects and work in a demonstrative and practical way.

Food for people with special needs

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation works via the Alícia Foundation to research, create and disseminate knowledge to improve eating habits and create solutions for individuals, with a particular focus on those who have illnesses or food restrictions. 

Product innovation and improvement

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation works via the Alícia Foundation and in conjunction with the food industry, artisans and entrepreneurs to improve and develop new products and processes that are healthier and more sustainable. Technical knowledge is created, which is then applied to develop the food solutions needed in the projects that the Foundation undertakes. 

Showcasing our agro-food heritage

Via the Alícia Foundation, the Foundation works on behalf of sustainability and appreciation of the work of individuals who live and work in specific regions, and to do so it promotes local products, studies the tradition to use locally-rooted cuisines and foster regional balance, and creates food tourism products.