During this visit, we will explore the enterprises and the creativity of Comuna 13, through experiences that show how access to credit and adequate advice are bolstering sustainable businesses with a real impact for local and international tourism. Neighborhoods are living testimonies of resilience and progress, which are essential elements for the purpose of our entities and their initiative of joining hands to design projects that can be converted into platforms for entrepreneurial growth. This visit is a historical, aesthetic and social journey through Comuna 13 in Medellin, where we will see the work of street artists of the hip hop movement born in this zone in the city. Through their graffiti creations, they can convey the histories that drive and inspire hope and the search for better living conditions for the community and tell histories of historical inequalities and violence forms that are still present in the zone. The visit includes the guidance of Colectivo Casa Kolacho. Our trajectory begins in the neighborhood of San Javier and ends at Casa Kolacho – after riding Comuna 13 ‘s escalators in the barrio of Independencias, number I. Important note: the route will be largely covered on foot.

Since the beginning of its activities, Fundación EPM has been a transformative force in Medellín and a key driver of the construction of citizenship and environmental awareness through spaces that educate, inspire, and promote participation. Settings such as the Water Museum (Museo del Agua), the EPM Library and the Park of Wishes (Parque de los Deseos) are not only architectural references, but also living laboratories where knowledge, sustainability, and the communities meet to imagine and build a more equitable and conscious future.
Located at the ‘Bare Feet Park’ (Parque de los Pies Descalzos), the Water Museum is a center of environmental awareness that combines science, art, and technology to further explore our relationship with water. The EPM Library, located downtown in the city, operates as a hub of free access to knowledge in a territory with educational and cultural vocations. On its turn, the Park of Wishes, located at the District of Science, Technology and Innovation, is an outdoor meeting-place where environmental learning is combined with the expression of citizenship, converting each experience into an opportunity of collective transformation. These will be the three visited places.

This visit will take you to a coffee farm in the municipality of Barbosa at the top of the Antiochian hills, located only 30 kilometers from Medellin. Visitors will take the Coffee Tour hosted by Hatillo Coffee and enjoy a deeply engaging experience especially designed for those who are not yet knowledgeable about the coffee-world but are seeking to connect to its essence through an immersive experience in the route of coffee, from grain to cup.
During this experience, visitors have a firsthand learning-contact with the entire cycle of processes related to the production of coffee: from cultivation and harvesting to the product’s processing and final preparation. they actively participate in the collection of ripe grains, observe and understand different processing-methods such as lavado, honey and natural, and go through the threshing and roasting plant, where the distinctive coffee-scent comes to life. They will also have the chance to enter the world of barismo, through an expert-dialogue that teaches key techniques for preparing a cup of coffee with quality and purpose. This is a complete route that awakens our curiosity and transforms the way in which we understand and enjoy coffee. By the end of the journey, participants will become new passionate lovers of Colombian coffee.

Urbania Café is an Empresa B that works to transform the coffee-value chain in Colombia by connecting coffee producers to conscious consumers through sustainable practices, fair trade, and meaningful experiences. Its business model creates direct relationships with producers, fosters a careful look at the territories, and promotes the coffee-culture from the standpoints of equity, traceability, and social impact.
The visit will take place at a partnering coffee farm in the township of San Cristóbal, near Medellín. At this property, participants will take a guided journey through a coffee plantation, learning about sustainable coffee production practices, dialoguing with producers, and having a sensorial experience while tasting special coffee varieties. The activity will include a conversation about the social and environmental impact of Urbania Café’s model, by emphasizing how conscious trade can become a territorial transformation-tool.

This place is much more than an artistic center: it is a lively territory where art is converted into a powerful tool of social transformation. Through community methodologies that integrate theater, dance, music, literature, and communication, it materializes the construction of a space of connection, solidarity, and peace. Here, art enables us to look inside ourselves, recognize ourselves in the others, and collectively create possible futures. The place embodies the commitment to producing “artists for life”, in a process in which artistic creation is understood as a shared task.
During this experience, participants will be invited to a firsthand practice of art in community, while connecting to the living memory of neighborhoods via sounds, dances, and histories. This experience will include ludic exercises with drums, theater games, and activities that probe human emotions, enabling one to feel, create, and share. This visit goes across the emotions and words to demonstrate that when there are spaces to create, it is possible to transform lives and strengthen the social fabric from a collective-perspective.

This visit is an encounter conceived as a sacred refuge for reconnecting with the Earth’s ancestral wisdom and vital strength. It will be guided by Mamo Bunkua – a spiritual authority of the Kogui people – and additional facilitators experienced in ceremonies and deep listening and stillness practices. Its setting invites us to introspection, connection with the sacred, and the awakening of a collective purpose of care and planetary regeneration.
This experience is structured around three key moments. It will begin with a Cocoa Ceremony to “open the heart”, followed by a dialogue with Mamo on the cosmovision that considers the ‘Sierra Nevada’ as the Earth’s spiritual heart, leading to a closing moment with a symbolic offering to nature, in which each participant will assert a personal intention. More than a learning activity, the visit sets out to become a space for recordation, deep reconnection with the Earth, and inner transformation.

This journey will allow its participants to experience different emotions and moments of the human mind, through the projects and initiatives of the Abrazadores, as well as through the enriching testimonies of persons who have found in their tools a way of going across moments of crisis and loss, in addition to acquiring resources to strengthen their mental health.
The journey will begin with a workshop based on one of the narrative tools of the Abrazadores, to access the experience of sadness, to recognize it and understand it as a superpower. Next, a dialogue will be conducted on the topic of mental health and how the proposals presented by the Abrazadores are contributing to positive processes in different settings. Finally, an exercise will be held with a reflection on the way in which each person can contribute to strengthening the strategies that aim at building society’s emotional well-being.

“Manrique: from the Barrio to the World”, is an itinerary that will take us to Manrique (Comuna 3 in Medellín), a territory that produces a large number of export dance-talents. The dancers who participated in the training schools of this neighborhood can be seen throughout the world today, representing Colombia and speaking about how training schools are a great model of social transformation.
This circuit is part of an effort in which many private-sector organizations – Fundación Grupo Argos, Fundación Fraternidad Medellín, Fundación Sofía Pérez de Soto, Fundación Conconcreto, Fundación Compás Urbano, and Medellín’s City Hall – have joined hands through Program “Tras los Puentes” to strengthen social organizations and support the promotion of cultural and community tourism. It is a chance to learn about blended work-models involving the private, public, and social spheres, as well as governance models linked to cultural tourism, processes that strengthen social and cultural organizations, and the impact of culture for the transformation of lives. Important note: the route will be largely covered on foot.

Casa de Carlota is an Empresa B founded In Colombia in 2016, which sets out to demonstrate with real achievements the potential of different capacities, through the work of a team of persons with conditions of cognitive disabilities and professionals from the fields of design and human sciences, who have joined hands to develop creative campaigns and inspirational experiences based on lateral thinking. These experiences include the activity proposed in this visit. Their aim is to strengthen the creative dimension through projects that show how the empowerment of diversity in the ways of thinking can lead to radical results.
This experience with Casa de Carlota invites us to discover the transformative power of absurdity and radical inclusiveness through an experience structured around four moments. It begins with the history of its origin and connection with the Empresas B-movement in Colombia, followed by a reflection on how results change according to the perspective from which they are observed, highlighting real cases that show the value of integrating unexpected elements to value-proposals. Next, creative exercises will be conducted to foster connections, as well as the ability to be flexible and cope with surprise elements. The meeting will then culminate with the presentation of eight key mantras of our team and two inspiring anecdotes, leading to a participative and powerful closing moment.

This visit organized by P4G proposes a facilitated experience that presents three of its partnerships with active operations in Medellín, all of which are focused on innovative and impactful climate solutions. This will be an opportunity to learn about how these enterprises in their early stages are scaling up their activities, while opening unique direct investment opportunities in the territory.
The enterprises that will be visited include the following:

BATx, a startup that leads solutions in the field of battery recycling for the sectors of electric vehicles and energy;

Zhana Solutions, a circular economy business that treats kitchens’ wastewater to recover the brown grease used for the production of biofuels;

SaBio, an AgTech platform supported by artificial intelligence that improves the quality of soils and agricultural yields.

This visit will take place at Bodega Comfama, an auspicious setting for new connections, dialogues, and collective inspiration. Here, we will participate in facilitated moments of reflection and exchanges with program beneficiaries and partners. Further, the journey will include a visit to the central office of Corporación Makaia, which is located nearby.
During this experiential moment, participants will have a firsthand impression of the impact of Makaia’s Bootcamp BeTek, an intensive training program in digital skills aimed at young people, women, migrants, people with disabilities, and senior citizens older than 50. We will listen to inspiring testimonies of beneficiaries, funders, and employees, with moments of reflection and the sharing of key lessons on labor inclusiveness in the technology-sector. This visit seeks to promote new partnerships and make visible the transformative power of digital education.

We invite you to discover from within how Fundación Juanfe’s Modelo 360° is changing the destiny of teenage mothers in situation of extreme vulnerability. Through a carefully designed experience, you will be connected to their histories, their struggles, and their resilience and capacities, while journeying through each stage of their transformation-process.
During this visit, you will experience a unique space of human connection with these adolescents, which will invite you to look within yourself, break through invisible barriers, and recognize yourself in the others. This will be a close, empathetic and deeply mobilizing encounter through which the differences between worlds vanish and make space for the essential: our shared humanity.

This visit will be conducted at the District of Perpetuo Socorro in Medellín, where we will learn about different initiatives that coexist within the same physical spaces in the city, as well as about territorial efforts based on different viewpoints, to generate formal work posts in the creative and cultural industry, while connecting to new markets and generating development in the city.
Comfama is a social project aimed at developing human capital in families through their financial, educational, cultural, and leisure-related services, as well as through the dimensions of health, housing, employment, enterprises and entrepreneurial development. La Bodega / Comfama is a Cultural Center located at the Creative District of El Perpetuo Socorro in Medellín. It is an open space to experimentation and innovation, which promotes the circulation of art, design, music, literature, and ideas
During this visit, participants will have a firsthand experience at Bodega / Comfama, learning how the Creative District of El Perpetuo Socorro brings together actors from the public, private, artistic, and community sectors to strengthen the emerging industry of creative economies. This journey will include a local guided visit, an active or performative artistic showcase, a conversation with cultural leaders of the territory, and a cup of coffee with local creators, as these activities are a part and parcel of the urban and social transformation of Perpetuo Socorro as a living lab in the city.

“Building a better world with everyone included” is the slogan of ILUNION, an Entrepreneurial group that celebrates its 10th anniversary with more than 50 business lines, €1,320 million in sales, and more than 40,000 workers, 40% of which have some type of disability. It has a different way of understanding business and is transforming the way in which value is seen. All ILUNION proceeds are reverted into the generation of employment.
The ILUNION group operates in Colombia with two industrial laundries in the cities of Medellín and Bogotá. With 2,300 m2, the Medellín-plant is located in La Estrella. Its activities begin in 2018 through the provision of services to the best hospitals of the city: Pablo Tobón, San Vicente, Las Américas, and CES. It currently has 150 workers, 70% of whom are persons with disabilities.
During the visit, we will learn about the operations of an industrial laundry and the entrepreneurial model of Grupo Social ONCE, which is the fourth nonpublic Spanish employer and the largest worldwide employer of persons with disabilities.

A not-for-profit private institution, Universidad EAFIT is celebrating its 65th anniversary with a record of changing peoples’ lives through education. This visit is an invitation to learn more about how EAFIT University, based on its transformative purpose, is bolstering inclusiveness in education and strengthening its institutional culture of impact-measurement.
As part of this mission, EAFIT has promoted an impact measurement-model developed by its Center of Public Value, in response to a central necessity of the social ecosystem: generating useful evidence for strategic decision-making and the structuring of results-based financial instruments.
The visit will begin with an artistic showcase by scholarship holders from the School of Music, representing the talent that flourishes with opportunities. We will continue with a dialogue on impact measurement as a management and decision-making tool in social projects and, particularly, in the field of education. Finally, we will close the activities with a lunch, dialogues, and the launching of a campaign in connection with EAFIT’s 65th anniversary: a celebration of more than six decades of transformative education, and an invitation to being part of the future of hundreds of young students in Colombia.

The Museo de Antioquia is a not-for-profit private entity with 143 years of experience in collecting, conserving, investigating, interpreting, and promoting the national and International cultural heritage. It is a contemporary art museum with the ability to disturb, build capacities, and communicate continuously through the contents and objects that it conserves as a heritage of all communities reached by its spaces, exhibits, and projects, in fulfillment of its mission of promoting cultural rights. The Museo’s collection comprises nearly 9,000 art and history pieces. 188 of them are works declared to be in the interest of the nation’s heritage. It is considered the second most important museum of the country and an artistic, cultural, and social reference at the regional, national, and international levels.
We will begin our journey by Casa del Encuentro, Followed by a pause for a cup of coffee at Laboratorio del Café and an itinerary through the emblematic Plaza Botero. Next, we will explore the main works of the museum, both in its permanent rooms and temporary exhibits, which will enable a direct connection to local art and history. The journey will continue with a lunch at the restaurant El Social Maestro, which offers a moment of pleasant encounters and dialogues. In the afternoon, we will visit the exhibit entitled Transmigraciones, which invites us to reflect on movement, identity, and transformation.