Is a non governmental organization devoted to safeguarding, researching and promoting the language, culture and Catalan identity in the districts of the Aragon strip.
It is formed by persons that have ben active in this struggle sonce the seventies as well as the entities of the territory devoted to specific areas like the academic world, the natural environment, the youth, the voluntary workers, sport or ecologism. It also brings under its wings collectives such as the «Western strip Group for Catalan national teams» and it works in close coordination with organizations like the «Friends of the Western strip» and the «Western University».

The Institution continuously carries out campaigns and actions all over the Catalan Countries and, recently, in Spain and Europe to explain the discriminatory situation that is suffered in the eastern strip of Aragon, and to require the official status of Catalan in our towns. It coordinates different areas of work, among others territorial development, traditions, natural heritage, monumental and artistic heritage, anthropology, sports and tourism.
The Language Observatory and the Legal Service analyse the state of Catalan and its defense in the face of attacks and discrimination on cultural or linguistic grounds, while they defend our cause legally.

The Cultural Institution has various campaigns underway and, especially, in close relationship and harmony with our towns, actions of recovery and care of our culture, from pedagogy with children to the strengthening or recovery of our traditional feasts.

It also organizes acts and campaigns beoynd the local area, as well as as well as consolidated events like the «King James I Prizes», the «Night of Culture», «Saint George» and many others that try to articulate the Strip.

Of special note, for its historic importance, is the «Congress of the Western strip» being celebrated from August 2004 to July 2006, in which top experts (from economics to the ecclesiastical heritage), in 45 seminars and congresses, analyze the current situation plan strategies and actions fort he revival of the Strip.

And the «Western strip Resource Centre». The first big physical space and permanent centre to supply schools, associations, with every kind of free educational and cultural material (exhibitions, audivisual shows, lectures, etc), town councils and in short to everybody that wants activities and resources in Catalan in the Eastern strip of Aragon. In parallell it offers information on the cultural activity born in the Western strip (ropck groups, theatre, traditions, publications, etc.) and it organizea all kinds of events all over the Catalan-speaking lands and Europe.
Finally it is worth poiinting out that the Institution runs the portal of the Western strip «franjadeponent.net», the most visited web site of Catalan culture in the world according to the Alexa index, as well as the «Franja de Ponent» magazine, which has a big readership and wide distribution.