Marta Cid

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Marta Cid i Pañella
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Minister of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya
In office
February 20, 2004 May 11, 2006
President Pasqual Maragall
First Minister Josep Bargalló i Valls
Preceded by Josep Bargalló i Valls
Succeeded by Joan Manuel del Pozo i Álvarez
Personal details
Born Wednesday, July 29, 1960
Amposta (Montsià)
Political party ERC

Marta Cid i Pañella (born July 29, 1960) was Minister of Education of Catalonia [1] from 20 February 2004 until 12 May 2006.

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Education and professional background

Marta Cid i Pañella received a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, a Graduation in Teaching and a Postdegree in Speech therapy from the UB. She taught basic education between 1982 and 1987, and worked as a speech therapist in the Special Educational School and Occupational Factory (APASA) between 1987 and 2000.

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope. Psychologists seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of phenomena linked to those emergent properties. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

Civic background

She founded the Amposta Handball Club, a sport she played until 1984. She also cofounded the Against Transfer Coordinator, and has collaborated with several organizations and cultural associations of Amposta.

Amposta Municipality in Catalonia, Spain

Amposta is the capital of the comarca of Montsià, in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, 190 km south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean Coast. It is located at 8 metres above sea level, by the Ebre river, not far from its end. Its population was 18,841 in 2005.

She cowrote PHN: la raó d’Estat contra l’Ebre i la Terra (PHN: State reason against the Ebre and the Land) in 2003.

Ebro river in the Iberian Peninsula

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Political background

Marta Cid enrolled in ERC in 1978, where she held several charges. She chaired the Amposta-located section, the Montsià Local Federation and the Terres de l'Ebre division.

Montsià Comarca in Catalonia, Spain

Montsià is the southernmost comarca (county) of Catalonia in Spain. Its capital and largest city is Amposta.

Terres de lEbre

Terres de l'Ebre is one of the seven territories defined by the Regional Plan of Catalonia. It is located in the south-west of Catalonia, in the southern part of river Ebre, and will be formed by four comarques: Baix Ebre, Montsià, Terra Alta and Ribera d'Ebre.

She has been head of the Tarragona electoral list for the Spanish Congress twice, and member of the list for the Catalan Parliament in 1995. She also chaired the ERC's National Council.

Institutional background

She has been Councillor in Amposta Town Council (1993 to March 2004), Regional Councillor in Montsià (1997–2001) and First Vicepresident of the Montsià Local Federation (1999–2001).

In 2000, she was elected in Tarragona for a seat in the Spanish Senate by the ERC party, integrated in the Entesa Catalana de Progrés (Catalan Agreement of Progress). She resigned in November 2003 because she was elected as a deputy in the Catalan Parliament elections. After she was elected Minister of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya (substituting Josep Bargalló i Valls), February 2004, she resigned as deputy in April 2004.

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References

  1. "Carod avisa de que la expulsión traerá consecuencias en Madrid". El Comercio (Spain) (in Spanish). 12 May 2006. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
Preceded by
Josep Bargalló i Valls
Minister of Education
20042006
Succeeded by
Joan Manuel del Pozo i Álvarez
(as Minister of Education and Universities)