Barcelona is Spain's economic hub, with industrial traditions that go back centuries. While manufacturing remains important, services and the financial sector are also well-represented, while traditional wine-making industries still flourish in the surrounding countryside; a great school trip destination.
Subject Focus:
- KS 4: The organisation of businesses and how they adapt to local markets.
- KS 4: Comparing and contrasting European business techniques.
- KS 4: Identifying the similarities of European and world wide organisations.
- KS 5: The workings of financial markets and stock exchanges and how trading affects the economy and people's lives.
Student Outcomes:
- Understand how markets affect and are affected by businesses.
- Learn about balancing profitability with ethics.
- Explore the possibilities of doing business in a European context.
- Place the role of stock markets in economies.
Question: Who said: 'Wise Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.'?
Answer: Salvador Dali
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