📋 Tender Overview
The year of training and work of the first Mexico-Canada youth laboratory successfully concluded in which 12 men and women from each country between the ages of 18 and 29 participated selected from a group of more than a thousand applicants seeking to be part of this innovative initiative.The objective of this project is to bring young people closer to the issues that make up the bilateral agenda between Mexico and Canada based on the work carried out by foreign ministries diplomatic missions civil society organizations government agencies companies among others. and that this allows them to make recommendations to incorporate the priorities of youth in the diplomatic leadership of both countries.The youth lab had a parity composition with regional diversity including delegates from Yucatn to Nuevo Len and from Newfoundland to Yukon of which six identified as belonging to the LGBTIQ community and five declared themselves to be indigenous peoples. For a year they met periodically virtually to interact with key decision makers from both countries with whom they discussed topics such as diplomacy diversity entrepreneurship the environment mobility etc.Likewise thanks to the joint work of the embassies and the North American Unit of the SRE young people were able to participate in the XVII annual meeting of the Mexico-Canada Alliance the main mechanism for dialogue and bilateral coordination as well as in a entrepreneurship forum for young people co-sponsored by the Ministry of Economy. As a result of its hard work the laboratory today presented a statement with recommendations in multiple areas in the three official languages which can be consulted at the following electronic link httpswww.canmex.org .In 2022 Mexico and Canada will commemorate the 78th anniversary of the beginning of their diplomatic relations a period in which a deep strategic alliance has been built for which it is now essential to incorporate the voice of young people as a source of innovation and reflection.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Mexico in Canada will continue to promote the work of this initiative in a future second edition and will continue to promote spaces for the participation of youth indigenous communities and LGBTIQ people in foreign policy.
