Granollers municipality

Granollers city council is the local administration of Granollers municipality. The city has 14.89 square kilometres with 60.445 inhabitants (1/1/08). It is one of the medium sized cities comprising the second metropolitan crown and is located approximately 30 kilometres from Barcelona.

City council main tasks are managing the strategy of the city, economic development and planning, social welfare, citizen’s participation and diffusive governance by third sector organizations, indicators of social urban sustainability…

The municipality of Granollers takes part in the network of cities promoting lifelong education, and Granollers is going to receive the meeting of Spanish network on May of 2009 demonstrating its participating in the topic of education to national level.

Furthermore the city has a strong tradition for the democratic aspect and has a Council of Children, which is an organ of participation formed by children with 10 and 11 years old. On the other hand, the service of Public Health in the Granollers city council works promoting of the health and healthy lifestyles since many years ago.

The feeding and the physical exercise are subjects prioritized in our city, together with the prevention of the consumption of drugs, the sexuality and affectivity.

The goal is giving information, through the empowerment of pupils with the promotion of the self-esteem. So, the IVAC methodology enters in our way for working, because it focuses on the boy or girl as an engine of changes. The interests about health has done that the city council had taken part in some European projects with the health focus like main topic.