Metropolitan Technological Institute (Medellin) (Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano de Medellín)

ITM University Institution or the Metropolitan Technological Institute - It is an institute of higher education located in Medellín , Colombia . The ITM has a technological orientation, vocation and tradition, of a public and municipal nature. The origins of the ITM as an educational institution date back to 1944 when the Medellín Council created the Municipal Labor Institute, with the purpose of providing training to the working classes of the city that, at that time, was growing as the industrial city of Colombia . The ITM is an accredited high-quality university institution, of a public nature and autonomous nature, attached to the Mayor's Office of Medellín; offers a public cultural service in higher education, for the comprehensive training of human talent in science and technology, based on excellence in research, teaching and extension, which enables life and work, from learning to be , learn to do, learn to learn and learn to live together, in the permanent construction of human dignity, collective solidarity and a social and ecological conscience.