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Our mission

To promote work agendas, action mechanisms and projects, building effective relationships and flows of knowledge among the public, research, education and business sectors, to convert knowledge, science and technology in dynamic factors for economic and social progress. All of the above, considering the development of the knowledge society at the national and international scopes.

Localization

The Science and Technology Centre of Antioquia is located in Medellín, capital of the department of Antioquia, in Colombia. Departments are Colombian political and administrative divisions, equal to states or provinces in other countries.

Its work is developed mainly in Antioquia, but also has made some interventions in Colombia and even outside the country.

Work agenda

The CTA´s work agenda develops the institutional mission through strategies materialized in innovative and positive-change-generating projects, grouped in three action lines, shaping the work agenda:

Education Line

The challenge is to improve the quality of education for children and adolescents, with focus on educational communities associated with basic and media education, mainly from the public sector.

This, with the implementation of a comprehensive and holistic model of school management, where both learning contexts and the creation of conditions to generate a culture of science and technology are considerate, through classroom, institutional and local management.

Productivity Line

CTA´s Productivity line generates collaboration and creative articulation of actors through the creation of conditions and interventions in strategic sectors, allowing economic and social development, by the design, coordination and implementation of permanent practices to improve productivity and local, national and international innovation.

Competitive Platforms Line

It promotes cooperation between generators and users of knowledge, in sectors and strategic issues for Antioquia´s development. Specially to propiciate the strengthen in scientific and technological knowledge to improve the competitiveness of organizations, such as sole proprietorships or collective systems with priority in water, biotechnology and medicine sectors, as well as those with regional competitiveness agreements.