Medellín

“Medellín, the most educated” (2004-2007) promotes education beyond schools, promoting social cohesion, citizen participation and coexistence. Promotes educational, cultural projects and participation in public spaces.

The sports and recreation sector in Latin America needs public policies based on research and technology to address urban problems. The Sport and Recreation Observatory evaluates public policies and promotes civic values and culture.

This initiative seeks to preserve a sense of belonging to the city by its citizens (demonym: paisas) who live abroad, making them “goodwill ambassadors” and encouraging their active participation through volunteering.

About twenty large-scale facilities, distributed all over the city, in order to foster places where people meet and have access to recreational and cultural activities, have been designed with the citizen participation. They are free and accessible to the entire population.

A sustainable mobility proposal for the city of Medellin and the Metropolitan Area of Aburrá, an alternative system integrated into, and complementary to the city’s mass public transit system.

Network of Culture Houses, Theatres, Articulated Life Units and Sound Production Laboratories.

Program aiming at improving the harmonious living in the city through citizenship education, positive recognition of behaviors that contribute to the common good and public communication.

Training processes addressed to children, young people and their families are established in all the districts of the city in order to foster skills that help optimize democratic citizen participation, through social dialogue and community interaction, among others.