Red u40 mexico

The u40 mexico network was born out of the u40 interamerican meeting (may 2011) which was held in toluca, mexico, one of the first projects funded by the international fund for cultural diversity of the unesco 2005 convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. the meeting was organized by the city of toluca in cooperation with the international federation of coalitions for cultural diversity and the german commission for unesco. u40 foreign fellows participated alongside a group of young mexican professionals interested in the debate on cultural diversity and the unesco convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions and its current implementation in the americas. the participants shared best practices to promote the diversity of cultural expressions at the local level and discussed the weaknesses, strengths and challenges of these practices. the meeting led to the creation of the regional u40 network “u40 mexico”, which primarily aims to give visibility to the 2005 unesco convention in the 32 states that comprise the mexican federation in order to build cultural cooperation projects and processes thinking global acting local. the work of creatividad y cultura glocal a.c. is based on the idea that cultural rights belong to all. by offering technical assistance, designing programs and projects in partnership with the public and private sectors as well as civil society organizations our objective is to open up glocal culture projects to as many people as possible.