L’Ametlla de Mar celebrates 10 years of Batxibac with a double European degree

The Candelera Institute of l’Ametlla de Mar celebrates ten years of the Batxibac Program with an institutional event on Saturday, May 9. The day will bring together public education, French, and a European vocation in a center that has turned academic rigor into a project rooted in the Terres de l’Ebre.

At 10:30 a.m., students, alumni, families, teachers, and institutional representatives will share a celebration that coincides with Europe Day. This is not just any formal photo opportunity: it is recognition of a decade of sustained work (and many hours of study).

Ten years of Batxibac in L’Ametlla de Mar

What is being celebrated on Saturday at the Candelera Institute?

For readers from the Terres de l’Ebre, the news carries a very specific meaning: a center in L’Ametlla de Mar has maintained an educational pathway with an international outlook for ten years without detaching it from the territory. The event will serve to acknowledge the journey made and the people who have supported it.

The celebration will take place on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. at the Candelera Institute. Institutional representatives, management teams and teachers, students, alumni, families, and members of the educational community and territory will participate, according to [Govern.cat](https://govern.cat/salapremsa/notes-premsa/820436/acte-commemoratiu-del-10e-aniversari-del-programa-batxibac-celebracio-del-dia-deuropa-linstitut-candelera){target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'}.

The program of the event is presented as recognition of an experience described as demanding and innovative. Its reason for being is not limited to language learning: it connects studies, culture, personal autonomy, and the possibility of looking beyond nearby borders.

• Location: Candelera Institute of l’Ametlla de Mar.
• Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026.
• Time of the event: 10:30 a.m.
• Press attention: from 10:00 to 10:20 a.m.
• Address: Avinguda 1 d’octubre, 2, 43860, l’Ametlla de Mar.

Who will take part?

The list of participants explains better than any slogan what Batxibac has meant for the center. Those working there, those who have studied there, and the families who have accompanied an intense academic journey will meet.

The call includes current and past management and teaching teams, retired teachers, families, students, and alumni. Former students play a particularly symbolic role: the Territorial Education and Vocational Training Services of the Terres de l’Ebre define them as ambassadors of the project and the territory everywhere.

Looking back is not only to remember. It allows recognizing a chain of work often hidden behind the grades: class preparation, support, coordination, and perseverance. The ceremony puts collective names to this task, although the press release does not detail individual interventions.

A double degree that demands perseverance

How does the Batxibac Program work?

For families in L’Ametlla de Mar and the Terres de l’Ebre, the main value is clear: students can simultaneously study the Catalan baccalaureate and the French baccalaureate through a shared curriculum. The result is a double degree recognized nationally and internationally.

Batxibac is not simply about adding French hours to the schedule. The program integrates language and content, with subjects taught especially in French. This requires students to work on comprehension, analysis, and expression within an academic pathway that demands continuity.

The source associates this training with four specific skills: critical thinking, rigorous analysis, personal autonomy, and sustained effort. In other words, language is the gateway, but the challenge is to learn to reason and work with tools that go beyond a single subject.

Why is it a demanding path for students?

The answer is straightforward: because the student must assume academic content and, at the same time, work on it in a French linguistic environment. The source describes the journey as high-level training, designed to prepare students for higher education and active European citizenship.

This approach has effects on the daily life of the center. Batxibac demands autonomy, analytical capacity, and constant dedication; it does not promise shortcuts. The educational system also has a very particular way of reminding that valuable things do not come with the push of a button.

Families appear as allies of the educational project. Their role is to accompany an intense, high-level pathway with a workload that demands monitoring. The tenth-anniversary celebration recognizes this involvement alongside that of teachers and students.

For the center, the program represents prestige, identity, and international projection. For students, it offers enriching training and a double degree. For the territory, it turns the Candelera Institute into a benchmark of the Terres de l’Ebre in the field of multilingualism.

Europe Day puts the territory at the center

What does Europe Day bring to the celebration?

For the local reader, the coincidence is not decorative: it allows explaining Batxibac as a European experience that is born and grows in an institute in l’Ametlla de Mar. The celebration links the education of the territory with the values of peace, cooperation, and dialogue associated with the European project.

Europe Day will give special meaning to the event because the program brings cultures closer and reinforces multilingualism. It also puts respect for diversity on the table, an idea that ceases to be abstract when worked through languages, content, and shared educational trajectories.

The press release recalls that these values have inspired the European project since the 1950 Schuman Declaration. In this case, the historical reference translates into a much closer scene: an institute, a group of students, and an educational community that defends open education.

What will the day be like and where will it take place?

The institutional event will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 9 at the Candelera Institute, located at Avinguda 1 d’octubre, 2, l’Ametlla de Mar. The media will be attended between 10:00 and 10:20 a.m.

The specific location is useful for people who want to follow the event and to situate the celebration within the municipality. This is not a generic Europe Day activity, but a anniversary linked to an educational program that has been part of the center’s identity for ten years.

The day will also allow recognition of management and teaching teams, including retired teachers, as well as families, students, and alumni. The sum of these groups explains why the project is presented as a shared experience and not as an initiative reserved for classrooms.

The final message from the Territorial Education and Vocational Training Services of the Terres de l’Ebre points to the future: to continue advancing with quality public education, rooted, open, and European. From l’Ametlla de Mar, ten years of Batxibac serve to remind that international dimension can also be built from a local center.

The tenth anniversary of Batxibac at the Candelera Institute brings together public education, multilingualism, and a European vocation. The double degree, academic rigor, and participation of students, alumni, families, and teachers explain the project’s scope. And coinciding with Europe Day adds a simple but powerful idea: opening to the continent does not mean losing roots, but can give them more reach.

Article source: Govern.cat