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Santiago, Mexico

Santiago is located within the beautiful Mexican state of Nuevo León. It boasts a lush landscape, which is reflected in the city’s name, which translates as ‘place of flora and fauna’. Santiago has a territorial extension of 746 square kilometers, occupying 1.1% of the surface of the State of Nuevo León, it is comprised of 358 localities and a total population of 42,407 inhabitants.

Santiago has also developed a framework of indicators that allow monitoring and evaluation of its progress towards the development of a learning city, which stands out as a good practice in the implementation of educational policies. The city was awarded the Learning City Award in 2019, because its citizens have access to a wide variety of free classes, including robotics courses for children and anti-bullying training to build a more cohesive society.

Formal and Non-Formal Learning infrastructure

Santiago has a large number of public and private educational institutions, having the necessary infrastructure so that the majority of the population has access to different educational levels, existing more than 100 schools of preschool levels, primary, general secondary, tele-secundaria, high school and technical and professional training, with a total of 8 private schools that are within of the geographical area of the municipality.

Regarding the cultural sphere, the municipality has the Capitán Diego Rodríguez de Montemayor Municipal Auditorium, in addition to six municipal Libraries that are open to the service of the general population. It also has a Museum of the History of Santiago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Popular Art, House of Culture, and a wide variety of spaces suitable for cultural exhibitions of diverse nature.

Learning City Developments

The Government has designed the following Strategic axes:

Safety in Santiago

The Municipal Administration of Santiago has fully assumed the commitment to carry out actions that are reflected in results for the population, aware that it is with order and efficiency in its actions the way in which the commitments assumed with the people of Santiago during the campaign will be fulfilled. Over the last few years, the population has demanded a decrease in the indices of criminals in the locality, through better and more strengthened public security.

A Productive Santiago

For Santiago to have better living conditions, it must generate more employment, especially in the formal sector. Therefore, the strategy of the municipal administration will trigger a sustained development of the economy based on four pillars:

1. Economic promotion and sectoral and rural impulse;
2. Support and encourage the creation and development of companies;
3. Take advantage of the coordination and planning capacity of the rest of the municipalities of the metropolitan area to design solutions for large investment projects and;
4. Project an image of Santiago that corresponds to an attractive environment for investment, production, and housing.

Santiago with Quality of Life

For the City of Santiago, the family represents the most important element in the society, being the epicenter and basis of the principles, values, work, and aspirations of our community. Therefore, the Santiago Municipal Development Plan 2018-2021 sets out the implementation of policies of integral human development, in areas such as health, education, employment, attention to vulnerable groups, housing, and gender equity, with the goal of fighting the causes and consequences of extreme poverty, marginalization, and social inequality; special attention has been given to children, youth, people with abilities different, older adults and women in our municipality

Sustainable Santiago

The greatest ambition of this administration is to promote and improve the economic, social and environmental conditions, through strategic projects and their respective lines of action that promote sustainable growth, as well as establish the foundations for a better city.

Some key activities in the Learning Cities field 

Santiago’s project develops educational, social, cultural, and commercial activities; provides new learning spaces; and promotes sporting activities within communities. Its aim is to improve the living conditions of the city’s citizens by improving access to these activities.

Activities are implemented in stages:

1. Assessment of social needs;
2. Integration of participants into more programmes;
3. Community actions in cooperation with city departments; and
4. Regular evaluation of the programmes.

Priority Areas for Future Development

The challenges facing Santiago’s learning city vision and its plan to meet them include:

1. Continuing to develop innovative programmes that are inclusive and promote gender equality and the integration of citizens into the cultural life of the city;
2. Generating technological development opportunities for and in the workplace;
3. Integrating community members into social, sporting, cultural, and permanent academic programmes.