The Carulla Foundation's Baldiri Awards aim to recognize and promote schools and educational projects throughout the Catalan-speaking world that use culture, the arts, and language to improve and transform society. With the 2025-2026 call for applications, which will remain open until January 26, 2026, the Foundation seeks to reinforce the role of education as a key space for promoting the language and building a critical and cohesive citizenry. The awards have a total endowment of €44,000, distributed across three categories: Baldiri Arts i Llengua (Baldiri Arts and Language), Baldiri Experiències (Baldiri Experiences), and Baldiri Escola Transformadora (Baldiri Transformative School). The Carulla Foundation maintains that language and culture are essential elements for any community and, therefore, must be protected and promoted as rights to be preserved and exercised. Therefore, in this edition, the Baldiri Awards aim to highlight initiatives that use artistic languages ​​in the classroom to promote access to culture and the use of Catalan, fostering the right of children and young people to actively and committedly participate in the cultural life of their community.

"At our school, we draw on the possibilities that art offers us: music, visual expression, theater... We have such a wide range that we're endless, and at the same time, it's often the way our students communicate," explains Pilar Garcia, director of the Can Vila municipal special education school in Mollet del Vallès. The school, which is located between three and twenty years old, bases its educational project on art, and does so especially through theater. The students who join the Can Vila community have previously attended mainstream school and arrive here after experiencing situations of failure. "What we don't want is for this to happen again when they enter our school. Their autonomy, self-esteem, security, the ability to feel responsible, and the bond they establish with adults, among other things, are important to them, but for us, it's not a priority. Our priority is precisely to value and emphasize the things they must do to improve their quality of life and emotional well-being. Based on this, we will enhance all the abilities our students possess."