With the purpose of exploring possibilities of cooperation with Medellin, we received the visit of the Danish Embassy in Colombia, led by its ambassador Erik Høeg, and accompanied by the city counselor Mikkel Hall. After the visit they announced that the city-city cooperation program of the Mayor of Copenhagen has decided to start a new cooperation in Latin America, and Medellin is one of the priority cities.
We organized a full work agenda with the Danish delegation, which included a meeting with the general manager of EPM, Jorge Andrés Carrillo Cardoso; the vice president (e) of Strategy and Planning, Luisa María Pérez Fernández; the director of the EPM Foundation, Vivian Puerta, and a group of officials of the Company. At the meeting, the general manager of EPM highlighted the importance of cooperation for the achievement of EPM’s strategy and acknowledged the experience of the Danish country in clean energy issues and in the implementation of circular economy programs, which can contribute to the fulfillment of the company’s goals.
“The first phase is to grow closer, to understand where we can do things, where the city has needs, while also coming to learn a lot from Medellín. We recognize EPM as an engine for the transformation of the city and that is why we are here to know where we can develop concrete projects or initiatives with city impact.” said the Danish Ambassador.
The director of the EPM Foundation, Vivian Puerta, highlighted Denmark’s Embassy ‘s cooperation in the strategy “My Sustainable Future”, an initiative aimed at children between 7 and 14 years old that is being organized jointly by this embassy, the District of Medellin, the ACI Medellín and the EPM Foundation and that will be presented next September.
The delegation lived the silletero experience
Since we were in the midst the city’s Feria de las Flores, we took advantage of the opportunity to tour the silletero farms with Ambassador Erik Høeg in the township of Santa Elena. The ambassador lived an experience full of tradition, flowers, plays and stories.
Sigo conociendo las tradiciones únicas de las regiones en Colombia. Aproveché mi visita a Medellín para conocer, junto a ilustres silleteros de Santa Elena, la famosa #FeriaDeLasFlores. Vi mucho talento, esfuerzo y amor por esta tradición que ha pasado por muchas generaciones💐🇨🇴 pic.twitter.com/5zALinlH3C
— Erik Høeg (@DKAmbColombia) August 9, 2022
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En mi visita a Santa Elena también tuve el gusto de conversar con Iván, famoso silletero. Los dos asistimos a la posesión del presidente electo – Yo como diplomático, él como invitado de honor. Me expresó su orgullo por haber estado en la Plaza de Bolivar en ese día histórico. 🇨🇴 pic.twitter.com/OFcinYpVJL
— Erik Høeg (@DKAmbColombia) August 9, 2022