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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - Network of Cooperative Athenaeums]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[This is what cooperative athenaeums look like: the successful model that drives the SSE in the territories]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/cb2f2196-2d10-439c-a491-4f325a84038d_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>In Barcelona, ​​the cooperative production company Responsabilidad Social Audiovisual (CREARSA) and the La Carbonera bookstore in Poble-sec. In Camp de Tarragona, the Contrapunt musicians' cooperative. In the Alt Pirineu and Aran regions, a good handful of agri-food cooperatives. In Catalonia, hundreds of projects have, at one time or another, taken advantage of the services offered by cooperative athenaeums. They are support offices but also economic revitalization centers, meeting spaces, and think tanks. Since 2016, they have acted as local antennas for a socioeconomic model that seeks to strengthen the economy rooted in the region, with collective, democratic, and transformative projects. Next year will mark ten years since this program was launched with the support of the Department of Business and Labor. During this time, it has generated a 45% increase in the number of registered cooperatives in Catalonia, as shown by the Registry of Cooperatives of Catalonia.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[M.A.]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:01:33 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[More than 200 people representing the cooperative world and the social and solidarity economy met at the last annual plenary session of the Network of Cooperative Athenaeums of Catalonia (XAC) in Granollers.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Network of Cooperative Athenaeums brings together fourteen organizations that, for almost ten years, have been growing the social and solidarity economy in Catalonia with one goal: to advance toward a more just, collective, and self-organized society.]]></subtitle>
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