AMPANS organised co-productive focus groups throughout the months of July, September, and October.

It started with inputs from local experts and incubators, with the aiming to   collaborate with community entrepreneurship services:

• CEDEM is the Center for Business Development and is a municipal facility that offers services and resources aimed at companies and people
• The City Council of Manresa has as its main function the services in the municipalities for entrepreneurs, professionals, entrepreneurs or freelancers, who make an entrepreneurial company.
• The OAE is the Office of Economic Activity of accompaniment so that they can carry out the formalities of opening of new businesses
• The University Manresa Entrepreneurship Service supports some people to turn their business ideas into viable business projects.

In July AMPANS created a focus group involving:

• People with intellectual disabilities and their families
• Professionals
• Voluntaries
• Community (neighbours association)
• Artists

Their intention was to develop an organisation or company focused on art (editorial,…). The Focus groups were articulated in several sessions:

• Explain the project and the co-productive approach it follows;
• Through workshops, dynamics, games, debates, active and experiential learning, they discussed key words such enterprise, entrepreneurship, incubator, …)
• Make the point on the Focus-Gruoup: discussion around what the participants learned;
• Adaption: Easy read Social Business Model Canvas