The Educating Cities Award aims to recognise and give international visibility to the work that Educating Cities carry out, as well as to highlight best practices that can inspire other cities.

The Award will be granted to three experiences that  foster education in civic and democratic values,  promote better living together and respect for the planet; as well as initiatives that foster solidarity, a culture of peace, social justice, participation, environmental awareness, and commitment to the common good.

An international jury, composed of experts in the field and representatives from the IAEC Executive Committee, analysed the 66 candidatures from 55 cities and 11 countries that took part in the award. Given the significance, richness, and diversity of the experiences examined, the selection process has not been an easy task.

Due to its impact, transversality, and its illustration of the breadth of the Prize’s theme, as well as the work carried out with various groups, the Jury selected as winners of this fifth edition the following projects; 

• Community Education Subsystem PILARES, México City (México)
• Interreligious Dialogue, Odivelas (Portugal)
• Water, Camera and Action – socio-environmental educommunication, Santo André (Brazil)

Also, the following projects emerged as finalists, standing out for their promotion of values ​​based on social inclusion, sustainability, peace, solidarity, resilience, and intergenerational dialogue:

• Environmental awareness and public health in municipal education (Apucarana)
• Sustainable Ministry Program. A path towards sustainable transformation (Buenos Aires)
• Flors Sirera House of Solidarity and Peace (Manresa)
• The sargassum and the resilience of the city (Playa del Carmen)
• Aconchego programme: sharing a home and company (Porto)
• Agricultural Clubs (Raul Soares)
• Commemoration of World Refugee Day (Sant Boi de Llobregat)

The Award Cerimony will take place on 24 May at 12h in Curitiba (Brazil), in the framework of the 17th International Congress of Educating Cities.

Many thanks to all participating cities. We encourage you to continue working on promoting values education in your city!