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Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-02-10T05:49:25Z

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= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September. 

= RELATED LINKS =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6zysemjUlM&feature=youtu.be Our firsty pitch video]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:07:20Z

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Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:06:50Z

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= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September. 

= RELATED LINKS =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:06:24Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

= RELATED LINKS =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:04:47Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= RELATED LINKS =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:04:02Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= RELATED LINKS =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:03:22Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:03:06Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. '''-''' Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. - Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:02:40Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:02:27Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

- Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:02:11Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:01:52Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:01:40Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:01:22Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:00:46Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:00:35Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T06:00:10Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T05:59:57Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

 For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T05:59:14Z

Cecitejera:

= UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO =

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

 For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:39:14Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

 For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==



Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== ==

= Related links =

 Universidad de Montevideo: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo] Cecilia Tejera: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera] Romina Dominzain: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain] Matias Menendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez] Luis Gurmendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:35:30Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

 For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.

== Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==



Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

 Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related links ==

 Universidad de Montevideo: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo] Cecilia Tejera: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera] Romina Dominzain: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain] Matias Menendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez] Luis Gurmendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:33:08Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

== Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy Two: Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.

 For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June. Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

 - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

 Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related links ==

 Universidad de Montevideo: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo] Cecilia Tejera: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera] Romina Dominzain: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain] Matias Menendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez] Luis Gurmendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:28:28Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS 

 Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. Strategy Two: Students lead social events Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June. Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen. - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

 Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution. This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

 RELATED LINKS

 Universidad de Montevideo: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo] Cecilia Tejera: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera] Romina Dominzain: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain] Matias Menendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez] Luis Gurmendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:27:01Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
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STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. Strategy Two: Students lead social events Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June. Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects 

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen. - Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors. The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody. - Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April. The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month. - Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits 

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like. Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March. Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

 Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution. This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

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Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:26:41Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
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STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS
 
Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change. But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. Strategy Two: Students lead social events Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
 
Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects 

Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.
 
- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.
 
The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.
 
- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.
 
The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.
 
- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known
 
Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.
 
Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits 

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.
 
Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.
 
Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

 Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution. This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:25:31Z

Cecitejera:

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:24:51Z

Cecitejera:

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:24:21Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>

== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo ][http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera ][http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain ][http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez ][http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:23:04Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
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== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Universidad de Montevideo: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo] Cecilia Tejera: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera] Romina Dominzain: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain] Matias Menendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez] Luis Gurmendez: [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez]

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:22:06Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>

== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:21:49Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
[[Category:Pages with broken file links]]

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:21:34Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
[[Category:Pages with broken file links]]

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:21:15Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:21:01Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed. 

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:20:45Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:20:30Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:20:12Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= =

== Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students ==

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:19:38Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
[[Category:Pages with broken file links]]

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students =

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:19:19Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students =

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>
== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.

== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.

== Related Links ==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:18:50Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
[[Category:Pages with broken file links]]

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students =

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

 But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds. The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May. - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May. 

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>

== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.





== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.



 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September. 

== Related Links==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:18:10Z

Cecitejera:

== Overview ==

The University of Montevideo (UM) started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there and on the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more. It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the Universidad de Montevideo. 

Now the UM has 7 different faculties : - Law School - Faculty of Business Science  and Economics - Faculty of Engineering - Faculty of Communication - Faculty of Biomedical Sciences - Business School (IEEM) - Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking. The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.
<div> </div>
[[Category:Pages with broken file links]]

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students =

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

 But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2 - Students lead social events ==

Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds.

The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.

 - Step #1: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the organization of the events. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.* - Step #2: Find sponsors to afford this events. Romina will handle this task at the end of May.

== Strategy #3 - Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks ==

Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus. For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved. Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venture. - Step #1: Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmation. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.  - Step #2: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. Matias will handle this task at the end of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. Matias will handle this task at the end of June.
<div> </div>

== Strategy #4 - Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects ==

 Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.

- Step #1:Finding the mentors.

In April there must be at least 5 mentors.

The idea is to find mentors that have some of the following: knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.

- Step #2:Adding the mentoring feature

The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.

The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.

- Step #3: Advertising

From now until it is known

Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.





== Strategy #5 - Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits ==

A known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.

Step #1: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. Matias will handle this task at the end of March.

 Step #2: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.



 

== Strategy #6 - Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects ==

Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.

 This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there. Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost. - Step #1:Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March. - Step #2:Make events to raise money or find sponsors. Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April. - Step #3:Buy all the materials. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August. - Step #4:Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September. 

== Related Links==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

[[Category:Student Priorities]]

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T01:15:34Z

Cecitejera:

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T00:56:13Z

Cecitejera:

Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

2017-01-28T00:55:29Z

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Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

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Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities

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== Overview==

Coming soon: Your Video (Session 5)

= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS =

= Strategy #1 - Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students =

 Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.

 But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job. The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about. - Step #1:Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. Romina will handle this task by the end of March. - Step #2: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April. - Step #3: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April. 

== Strategy #2==

== Strategy #3==

== Strategy #4==

== Related Links==

Spring 2017 UIF:

Student 1 (hyperlinked)

Student 2 (hyperlinked)

Student 3 (hyperlinked)

Student 4 (hyperlinked)

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Resource:How to build inclusive movements that fuel a culture of innovation

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"Innovation" defines itself as "a new idea, device or method". We in this fast moving world experience a rapid change in science, ideology and thought process, hence it is a fact that innovation in each sector helps to enhance features, reduce flaws and invite creativity in the concerned field. Injecting a series of innovation in an organization leads to start a trend or "culture of innovation''in that organization, which helps to keep its members active, in trend and most of all helps them to be creative and allows them to think from a different perspective. Here are few basic inclusive movements that will help to ignite the culture of innovation in an organization.''

== '''Introduction''' ==

Clearly, to start up with a strategy to start these movements, it is necessary to have an enormous potential, potential to be ready to tighten up seat belt to blast-off for innovation. To start an innovation, all you need is a clear mind with a clear goal. Once you are set with the goals, just move forward and start basic steps to implement, promote, educate, and enhance your movement. Get the required permissions, look out for supports (even if you face rejections, keep trying), search for funds, find the correct team and finally get set and launch your movement. Remember, this will require lots of patience and a spirit to keep moving on until the goal is reached. 

== '''Finding a Need and Goal ''' ==

In order to create a successful, inclusive movement, one must first have a need on their campus that is not being fulfilled by the administration as well as a clear, well-defined goal. To identify a need on campus, it is important to speak to a range of faculty, staff, and students to ensure that a majority of people's opinions align to one specific need. Whether that is a need for a new design space, a new major, or more interaction between disciplines, it is very important that a majority of people on campus believe in your cause. Once a wide range of people on campus believes in your movement, all that is needed a clear, well-defined goal. Once your goal is well defined, you can then begin presenting this idea to important faculty members who can help champion your movement. 

== Academic Permission and Support  ==
<div>Ryan didn’t have any '''permission''' in the early going for the idea. After doing the Landscape canvas , they noticed many groups working separately to create their own spaces. That led to an idea that they began pitching to leaders across campus. One of them was interested in helping and then it took off! </div><div>This gets to a core belief of Ryan that goes like “it is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission”. Often times he has found when working on projects, whether at Microsoft or school, that when you go asking for permission, most people want to stop you. When your projects are large in scale and challenge the way things are done, it is scare for people who may be comfortable and it is in their best interest to stop you. </div><div>Obviously this comes with risks. You want to make sure what you are doing will not cause a large negative outcome or else you risk getting into serious trouble. Luckily though, almost everything fellows have done is better for everyone involved once it is complete. </div><div>The place this does not work is with safety and compliance concerns. They had experts from the fire and police department come in to help with those concerns such as ventilation and making sure we had proper entrances and exits in case of fire. </div><div>As far as '''support''', They were supported by as many different groups across campus as possible. This included the colleges of Engineering, Business, Libraries, and Architecture, Office of Technology Development, various local K - 12 schools and businesses. This support ranged greatly from helping design classes or workshops to actual funding support. They worked very closely with this group early on to influence the design of the space. Their idea was to involve the “customers” (students, businesses and professors) as early in the process as possible so they could make the space as good as possible. They did not want to build a 25,000 square foot space and find out that their customers did not like it .</div>

== Cost ==

When we talk about costs, we need to embrace so many points: 

The promotion of the activities you will roll in your University includes a cost. It depends on who are your audiences, so when you need to raise money, for example, you need to make the fliers and all the marketing resources needed, talk to the president of the campus and convince him that it would be useful, and see how can be valuable, cool and fun for the students. As Ryan said, prove that you are real and you have something to offer.

You also need to think about the cost of the space where is taking place the movement, and all the materials involved, that must be attractive, original and entertaining. If you are doing it in your campus, then try to adjust that space on the best way possible, such as renting a tent and inviting the students in their breaks. 

Experiment with different kind of ideas to get an effective one, involves costs too, especially if it's a big movement. But don't be afraid of thinking crazy things. The sky is the limit and if it's something that they've never seen before, better.

The best way of avoiding problems and safe money is to keep in touch with experts of any topic involved in the movement. It's better to raise your hand and ask before it's too late. 

Time is a cost. Before having success, you should knock many doors, send a lot of emails, join groups at your University, work in different places to understand how things work, It's probably that only the 10% of the people you ask for support answer, but they are more than the 0 you have first, said Ryan.

Talks and conferences are another way of attracting people, and you should take care of your words and prepare an attractive pitch. This takes time so be patience and practice a lot. As Nadia said, it would be great to have a million dollars and do whatever I want to, but there is a system that you have to respect, either if you are agree or not.

Meetings are other costs but they are important to do networking. Remember that one of the most important things is to find someone who really cares of what you are doing, in a high level, who loves what you are doing. Working with a team is always better but remember, focus in the ones who cares about you and your mission, and look outside of the box because the others are a waste of time and money.

Finally, inclusiveness involves people of all types of abilities, so make sure that the movement includes everyone and the activities help to mix everyone so they don't fell alone. This involves bigger costs but it's worth it.

 

== Leadership ==

When it comes to '''lead '''a movement you need two kinds of leadership: towards the people in your team and toward the target public of your movement.

First, you need to find the people on your campus that believe in your ideas and would work with you. Leading doesn't mean doing and knowing everything, on the contrary is always good to let experts participate and do what they excell at. As Nadia said "to be a genius you don't have to know everything, you just have to know one or two things generally well and then ask a whole bunch of questions. To ask this questions maybe you need to talk with very important people and as Ryan mentioned you don't have to be afraid of emailing them, the worst case is that they don't respond.

Regarding the public of your movement it is crucial to make your movement inclusive. That is, thinking about all the minorities that can be benefited from your project. And remember there's no leadership without empathy. "The core of every inclusive movement is mutual respect" says Diana in her [https://medium.com/@Code2040/start-with-love-c05a2f264171#.281e2f2pw talk] and adds "I may not have been where you’ve been, but I can empathize with your humanity". 

== Launch  ==

This step actually starts from the very beginning of your movement. The first launch is when one finally decides to start the culture of innovation. But as an overall process, the launch is one of the final steps that is to be taken up to start the movement of innovation. It is important that before the launch, all the legal and academic permissions are obtained and all resources are collected ( the 3M ''resources''- ''Man, ''''Machine'''', and Material''). It is important to have a team organized and an organization chart needs to be created beforehand.

After this, the final part of the launch comes into existence, which involves '''''Plan-Do-Check-Analyse (PDCA) '''''which is a closed loop procedure which involves the following:

'''Plan:   '''Plan out the required guidelines and checklist for the members of the team. Having this created, designation of responsibilities to the team members must be carried on.

'''Do:'''   Start to implement your movement, engage your team members to continuously work to reach your movement to a number of members and help them to achieve their desired goals.

'''Check: '''  Monitoring your progress is an important part of your launch, you would not know whether your movement is a success or a failure until and unless you keep a check on your progress.

'''Analyse: '''  Check your progress and filter out your pros and cons of your movement and take steps to''re-plan ''your movement so as to eliminating the cons and taking over the advantages of the pro. Repeat the PDCA to have a successful running movement of innovation in the organization.

== Student Contributor Profiles ==

[[User:SravaniSegireddy|User:SravaniSegireddy]]

[[Rachel Acevedo|Rachel_Acevedo]]

[[Ria Singh|Ria_Singh]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia_Tejera]