2022 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

Dialogue, ideation and co-creation are the steps we follow in Antioquia LAB, a project of the Government of Antioquia, in which more than 2,000 young people from the nine sub-regions of the department of Antioquia in Colombia participated in 2021. 

We open face-to-face spaces where young people feel comfortable to talk about their territories and encouraged to give free rein to their imagination to propose ideas for solutions translated into collective or volunteer actions, which we carry out together reinforcing solidarity as a value of life and multiplying the message of Nonviolence as a pedagogy of life at every step.

We travel through municipalities of Antioquia carrying out volunteer actions such as reforestation, painting murals with elements of cultural identity, creation of tourist stamps, recording of documentaries as an apology for the talents of young people, resignification of youth spaces, open fairs of youth opportunities, entrepreneurship and mental health. 

Thus, Antioquia LAB is also a subregional meeting platform for young people in which they were able to meet again, after a long time without being able to do so due to the pandemic, thus achieving a comforting youth mobilization based on the recognition of themselves, the other and the environment.

In 2022, Antioquia LAB is living it in the form of 9 Subregional Meetings plus a Departmental Meeting to close the experiences. 

More information:

www.antioquia.gov.co (External link) 

https://youtu.be/_phWvfLC2-E (External link)