León
The Mexican city of León is located in the State of Guanajuato. It has a population of 1,238,962 inhabitants (2010 data) and its surface area is 1,183 km2.
The city is consolidating two economic sectors: highly specialised health care and diagnostic, and higher education and research.Contact details
Experiences - News
Cycling School with a Gender Perspective
The project was created with the aim of providing girls and women of all ages in León with tools that foster their autonomy and allow them to take ownership of public spaces. It also aims to promote the use of the bicycle as a clean, efficient and healthy means of transport. [...]
Child Ambassador for Prevention
The initiative was created with a view to encouraging student participation in fostering positive coexistence at schools, and also helping to prevent violence and improve the quality of life, through a contest to appoint the child ambassadors. [...]
Women Free of Violence Networks
Gender-violence prevention programme that promotes the empowerment of women, fostering their equality and citizen participation through the solidarity of women’s networks. [...]
First meeting of the Executive Board of the Mexican Network of Educating Cities
The Executive Board of the Mexican Network met for the first time on 23 March in León. [...]
Civic Promoters
Students at various educational levels became involved in fostering positive actions to care for public spaces, in order to contribute to the construction of a more orderly, cleaner, more sustainable and safer city. [...]
Ecological Flag
With this initiative it is expected that schools include environment education for sustainable development in their curricular content, and the schools that meet the required criteria will be given the certificate made up of a flag as recognition for their work. [...]
Municipal Values Week
In order to foster the human values, lectures, recreational-interactive workshops, forums, marches and cultural events are carried out during a week. Schools, families and the society in general participate in the initiative. [...]
Digital Mobile Library
The objective of this project is to foster the reading and bring the new information technologies closer to the population in general, but especially to the most vulnerable layers of society, which lack these services. [...]