From the next year of school, the Institut Barcelona Esports (IBE) will offer schools the possibility of joining the New JA Pedalo Program, Reserved for third -grade students in the city.
This initiative is the basic freshness in providing school age sports promotion for a 25/26 course, and aims to have city children who are unaware of studying a bicycle and will also work on improving the capabilities and safety of children who have previously learned to cycles.
Plan that up to 3,000 children from the city participated in the educational proposal that would take place in Horta-Mique Velodrome Poblet And that is to be promoted to protect cycling within the festival plot in the city of Grand leaves Tour de France 2026. The activity was arranged in two practical hours of two hours. At this age and, accompanied by professional monitors and monitors, is the time that is considered best to achieve bicycle study. The program includes didactic dossieres for teachers, specific material for disabled children and taking up to 50 recycled bikes by cooperative work with a social economy model with a social economy model planned Biciclot.
The main goal is that the children of the city have not had the opportunity to make it learn to ride a bicycle and improve the motor skills of these studies while the knowledge of an element of sustainable mobility and a healthy, basic habit in our city is favored. In total, one hundred school groups are expected to participate in the program throughout the course.
The councilor for sports, David EscudéHe emphasized: “The new ‘JA Pedalo’ program is the example of synergies that a great event such as a tour of France can be for Barcelona. This is an opportunity to reach cycling in all major schools and create a new connection to this sport.”
“We would like to promote that Barcelona is a international cycling skill reference and, at the same time, we also want to get all our children and youth to learn to ride a bicycle. With this goal and take advantage of the arrival of the Grand Départ, Barcelona will boost new projects to promote the use of a bicycle in the city that will be part of their legacy,” Escudé added.
This initiative adds to Pedala Program That since the 2012-13 academic year, ESO students have introduced various cycling modalities and encourages the use of bikes as a sustainable and healthy alternative of mobility and the Find out on the pedalSpecific Program for Special Education Schools. The project began with 400 participants and, currently, established itself as a reference for school sports in Barcelona, where nearly 1,500 students from several city institutions have gathered. In this sense, in front of the course of 2025-26, up to 3,000 areas of this project will be expanded.
Source: La Verdad

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