https://universityinnovation.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=EdinamendiondoUniversity Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]2026-04-24T09:59:27ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.33.1https://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=78143Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-11-03T19:11:06Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate student at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers, Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span>&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><br/></div><br />
== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=78142Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-11-03T19:09:49Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span>&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/><br/></div><br />
== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=78141Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-11-03T19:09:21Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span>&nbsp;<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=78140Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-11-03T19:08:55Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span>&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=78139Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-11-03T19:07:24Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span>&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:Mauricio_Giraudo&diff=78138Fellow:Mauricio Giraudo2018-11-03T19:04:27Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br/>Mauricio Giraudo Cabrera, from Colonia del Sacramento, a small city and the oldest in Uruguay (founded in 1680), is currently studying a Bachelor’s Degree in&nbsp;<u>International Business</u>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;'''Universidad de Montevideo'''. At the same time, due to the University of London International Programmes, he studies from Uruguay for a BSc in&nbsp;<u>Business and Management</u>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;'''London School of Economics'''.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">On 2014 he was chosen to participate in the US Department of State’s program&nbsp;''Youth Ambassadors'', from which he travelled for a month to California to acquire the skills needed to implement a Community-Based Initiative. He is then founder of the NGO&nbsp;'''Colonia Limpia''', focused on raising environmental awareness through different educational activities, as workshops at schools and beach clean-ups. Besides, he is an active member of the NGO&nbsp;'''Panda Educación Ambiental''', collaborating in its various programs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He loves to travel to new places and be amazed by the nature, its people and to learn about their culture and thoughts. He’s also a fan of sports and soccer, and enjoys spending time outdoors sharing with friends, listening and playing to music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;">Nicolas is a University Innovation Fellow trainee at Universidad de Montevideo, in Montevideo, Uruguay. He's a 20-year-old Uruguayan, born in August 23<sup>rd</sup>, 1998. He feels grateful because of the lovely family he's given to grow up with. Loves them, they've always motivated him to follow a self-improvement path. They did almost the impossible to give him better opportunities than what they even had. When he was 8, by joining in a scout group he began a lifelong one-way journey. With the years, he finally understood that creating a positive impact was going to be vital in his life. At the age of 16 and 18, he managed to get the chance of visiting worldwide scout camps in Japan and Iceland respectively, what made him even more stubborn on the true fact that changing the world through every-day actions is possible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;">Business Administration, what he currently studies, does make a deep sense for him because it connects both, his goals and passions. It’s the way he found to actively and lovely direct people to get the best results of their abilities so they can create new valuable things which slowly but steady can make this world a better place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;">If I there’s a legacy in his life, he would immediately think about his family and the daily phrase resonating at his home: “Everything is possible unless you don’t try”. One of his deepest motivators is to make people understand they can do anything they want in their lives if they go for it. No matter what people aim to or how crazy their goals are, he's convinced that everything is possible. At the end of the day, the most disruptive advances came from that “crazy” people who could dream them and never gave up on the idea of making them come true. He thinks by fostering a self-confidence feeling and encouraging people to try, fail and retry until they get it, the world could be both, a better and fairest place for everybody.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;">Giving opportunities definitely worth it.&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#000000;">So, the craziest, most challenging or epic idea, the best!</span></span><br />
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<div>= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Overview</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e28c-94e1-40e9-bfe7cc399f32"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Th</span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e 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 m<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and m</span>uch more.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law School</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities & Education</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science&nbsp;and Economics</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Communication</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities and Teaching School</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Biomedical Sciences (For graduate students)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business School (IEEM)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for tertiary training in services and innovation</span></span></span></span></li><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 43 different major for undergraduate students and 22 majors for graduate students</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 degrees</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span></span><br />
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= '''<span style="font-size: x-large;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2019)</span>'''<br/> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy One: UMornings: Empowering students</span>'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After researching and understanding students in our university we were not surprised to find out they feel demotivated and reluctant to get involved in most activities, including the ones that have to do with their education.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Since we understood a crucial part of the I&E culture is to feel empowered, we strongly believe that our first strategy should focus on tackling this issue.&nbsp;Students need to be inspired in order to achieve great things, this is why we propose a free event where students and staff can be inspired by hearing someone's story.&nbsp;The power of storytelling can have a positive impact on students and provide the perfect environment for entrepreneurship to flourish.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">For this idea to happen we would need a room available at a given time for a previously selected speaker to join us. We strongly believe that offering food produced and manufactured by different small student ventures would be valuable for both, the event and them. While researching we discovered an abundance of this type of small businesses and we think that forging strategic alliances with them can not only boost their growth but also show students that being an entrepreneur is a highly supported career option by Universidad de Montevideo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We expect that these motivational and inspirational talks improve the perception of I&E in our university. It would be ideal to do these twice a month.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to Romina Dominzaín to obtain the support from Initium and gather contact information to select speakers. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms to ask for an available room in the selected date. It is crucial to make sure the room is cleared and eating and drinking is allowed. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Talk to the entrepreneurs in order to sell them the idea. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:&nbsp;'''Start the marketing and communication strategy to attract people. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Launch the first UMorning Event.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Customizing Faculty Info</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">While researching why students knew, overall, &nbsp;little to none about I&E we found a deeper problem. Communication through out our University is not at its best. Students in our school do not know most of the what our University has to offer, including subjects, events and more. We realized that there is a huge amount of data that is not reaching the people that would appreciate it and make the most out of it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe this is because students´s interests and needs are not taken into consideration when it comes to communicating new courses, events or student initiatives.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If this was taken care of, students would have a better chance to get to know people with similar interests and, not only generate new connections that could foster I&E through out campus, but also make the best out of their University experience.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We propose to merge information and technology to create a database with the students´s likes and passions. This will allow for automation in the area of communication leading to better targeting when sending info by email. In other words, if the correct people received the correct information we could create new and better opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to the IT Department to make possible this automatization. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Design a standardized way to gather the student's needs and passions. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Teach the new system to the people in charge of spreading the information making sure they understand this will in no way replace their jobs, only make them easier. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:'''&nbsp;Implement the system.</span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''Strategy Three: Let's Take Recycling Seriously'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Montevideo has a huge problem regarding waste. In 2017 a local newspaper published that the place where our city displays waste will exceed its capacity in no more than 5 years. Currently our University does not have an efficient recycling program and it’s not focusing on impacting our community and conscientizing its students and staff, that are as well citizens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After LOOP, Semana de la Innovación, in which we brought to the University a social project called “Resuena”, everybody got aware of a problem no one had realized before. Aiming to spread a 360° message of sustainability, LOOP allied with that key partner to foster a never seen environmental awareness program on it’s participants and staff. As previously stated, Montevideo as a whole, is facing a deep problem related to the limited capacity of trash dumps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">With the goal in mind to generate change, Resuena put 10 recycle bin stations with their corresponding banners along the building to classify the trash in three simple categories:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Organic waste</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Recyclable stuff</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mixed trash</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Even though 3 categories is not quite enough to make a correct classification of the trash, it’s a great beginning for a country with a poor, but slowly increasing culture of recycling. Nevertheless, it was utterly surprising how people, participants and authorities reacted positively to this initiative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We think that environmental awareness is a vital matter and, as agents of change, it’s part of our duty to lead by example and get our peers into those small habits that create a better world for all of us every day. Thus, knowing that this action is likely to be well accepted by all students and it’s potential to open a wide new range of innovative ideas, our proposal is to make a win-win alliance with Resuena in the short run.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Arrange a meeting with Antonio Carvalho, the leader of Resuena and manager of a local high school. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Find people who can pick up the recyclable stuff and contact them. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Use Antonio’s guidance to understand the potential recycling hotspots along schools. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4: '''Elaborate a complete budget with the cost of implementation of both, recycling stations and teaching banners. Also, start our compost with help of Lombriz urbana. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5: '''Present a campaign and workshop to instruct interested students, staff and authorities. Making people feel into this change will definitely make it last. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Four: Transform The Canteen Into a Collaborative Space</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Universidad de Montevideo faces an intrinsic problem when it comes to space. Our findings revealed that there is not enough space in general. Classrooms are crowded, open public spaces are not enough, the canteen is small and not practical and, most importantly, there is no space to work on projects. Moreover, we got to know the real possibilities regarding budget. Reality is, our University does not have the funding to involve itself in a bigger project. More research into the causes of the problem made us realize what we could tackle effectively was the way spaces were being used. We then decided that, in order to foster the I&E culture, we could reorganize and rethink already existent places.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe that collaboration between both, random people and peers, does have a deep impact in people’s sense of community. According to our findings, many people don’t use their schoolspaces to study or interact because, due to several reasons, they don’t find on it what they need.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">These are some of the insights we found as well as some of the ideas we came up with during our design thinking process:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Foster shared places like the Ping Pong and mini-soccer areas.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">To have long tables at the canteen and the patio to make students seat together and promote interaction.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The need for a space of Co-work (considering the evident lack of space we are facing).</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">People want more multidisciplinary interaction through taking subjects of other areas of knowledge.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The canteen stays behind the high level of service in every school.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After a long and challenging process of understanding not obvious relationships between people’s insights (interest of knowing new people and working with them) and the possibilities of a short of space institution, we ended up in a simple but different solution.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small four-people tables instead of bigger furniture?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Integrating both, people's interests and the way we would like our canteen display be like, we redesigned the space to be more collaborative and teamwork-friendly through acquisitions of longer tables.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Redesigned in this way, it is a new opportunity to create a space for people to spend their free time as well as work in big teams or even interact with random students seated close to them. We think that, with a little investment, and no bigger space requirements, this is a simple but perfect solution to foster a sense of unity amongst students. And so, sooner than later, will generate an I&E-friendly place and a collaborative mindset, both powered by a change on the display and a few other details.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Re-emphasize with users. Have a deeper understanding of the space needs along the day. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Understand the space capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until we find out the right one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option). Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Estimate a budget to make the acquisitions we found out on previous step. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:''' Find a temporary place to storage the old furniture until we can sell it. Unless the university wants to keep it or do anything else. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Present the project to potential sponsors to make the economic effort easier. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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= '''<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2018)</span></span></span>''' =<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy One: Recycle a room into a Makerspace called i-room</span> ===<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">Our university faces, nowadays, a problem related to the subjects available for students. Each major and school counts with its own subjects offered to students and they do not have the possibility to choose courses from other schools. As a matter of facts, a student majoring in law is not able to take classes about Innovation or Entrepreneurship, for instance. Therefore, we propose to cr<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eate a Makerspace in order to solve this problem. A room from one of our campuses´ building woul</span>d be recycled by students into a place where projects could be developed. Also, free short-term courses on Design Thinking, creativity and other topics related to I&E would be offered for students who are interested and willing to start working on their own projects.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms in order to ask the donation of a room for this purpose. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, at the beginning of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a campaign in order to form a group of students who volunteer on recycling the materials available and creating new furniture for the Makerspace. ''Juan''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Juan’ll organise them at the end of April.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start building the new materials and working on the donated room. ''Guillermo''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Lucia will organise them in May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search for sponsors in order to equip the room with new technology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claudio will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #5: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Martha Passadore, academic coordinator and teacher, in order to ask her to be in charge of conducting the introductory courses. ''Sofia''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this in June.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #6: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the i-room to the community of students. ''Diego''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this by the end of June</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Online courses for teachers about I&E</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the analysis of the Landscape Canvas, we were surprised with the amount of teachers which lack of formation and information regarding I&E. Therefore, we propose to create a mandatory online course for all teachers. It would be online so they could handle it considering their convenience and regarding their working schedule. In order to complete the course, teachers would have to form groups and also contact students in order to create a project, which would be presented to the university, solving an specific problem proposed. Indeed, teachers would not only gain insight about I&E topics, but would also develop new skills and get to know better their students. Furthermore, strong alliances could be formed from this challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Passadore in order to approve and design the course. </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina will handle this task, between 1st of April and 20th of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask the department in charge of the web sistem to create a platform where the course would be developed. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gala will handle this task, and the meeting will be done in May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Form an I&E club</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">nterest on I&E is difficult to find among the students at our university. Therefore, we propose to form an I&E club to solve this problem. This club would have several tasks to complete in order to increase the amount of students interested on innovation and entrepreneurship, as we consider the lack of interest is explained by the absence of promotion. To begin with, the club would be in charge of organizing campaigns, talks and events to attract more students to become members. Secondly, it would launch different competitions, through the year time, which would propose solution to companies´ problems or university´s issues. Finally, they would create an online multimedia library open to all students, containing films, books, videos, podcasts, work calls, reports, interviews, or any material on I&E. In this way, students can immerse themselves on I&E topics at their convenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the authorities in order to receive their approval for the club formation. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, between 5th of April and 13 of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create the club, the initial members would be the 12 fellows our university which would be in charge of adding members. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucia will handle this task, at the beginning of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start communicating its existence and working on the tasks named before. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gala will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Re-validate mandatory internships</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the interviews done to students recently, we found out that they do not have much free time in order to spend working on their projects. In other words, students spend most of the day at the university facilities taking lessons, and when they reach their homes they have quite a lot to work on and study for the the rest of the week. Furthermore, most majors have mandatory internships every year of study for the holidays, and as a matter of facts, students do not have much spare time at that moment either to develop their projects or ideas. All things considered, we propose the introduce a programme which re-validates mandatory internships to students who are working on projects, considering this a possibility for them to develop their entrepreneurial abilities. This programme would have specific requirements and steps in order to make sure students are taking advantage of the experiences. In addition, we consider this could be done by each student twice, as we believe it is essential they also gain hands on experience in the working field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the internships department in order to obtain approval and design the programme with its requirements. ''Carolina''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicate the programme to students by visiting each class at the beginning of the next semester and provide them with a contact for further information. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be in charge of the organization but all the fellows would visit clases by May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Five: Develop I&E content on the UM`s social networks</span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One problem we can see at our university is the information provided to students and the way to encourage the I&E activities. While working on session 3, we did not find many ways of marketing in the "discover" item. This means that although the offer of innovation and entrepreneurship is varied, communication does not reach students efficiently. Many times what happens is that the students themselves do not pay attention to the graphic material on campus, or the emails sent with invitations to contests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, we have severals ways to encourage and take parts of this information process. Nowadays, the youth spend most of their time using social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter so we thought to take advantage of that in our project. Share daily instagram stories in the instagram account from the University is a great idea to begin with.This can be news related to events, talks, subjects, majors. When published, students would be kept up to date with everything that is happening at the university, as well as the events and projects related to I&E that the University offers, even if they do not read the communicational emails as usually.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the marketing department in order to obtain approval and help them in this process. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Juan will handle this task by the end of March</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch a strong campaign, which could be a raffle that requires to follow the university´s account in order to participate. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sofia will handle this task through April.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Six: Create a phone application for school members</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">In the thread of encouraging the I&E information available (strategy 5), and considering other problems related to communication that our university faces, we thought that creating a platform or phone App could improve the situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this way, students would not be able to see all the news related to I&E displayed, but also to participate in discussions or ask questions. Furthermore, special and attractive notifications could be created in order to announce when important articles or events are posted.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of technology services and also students majoring in communication or systems engineering, and propose the challenge to take part on the programming and design of the app. ''Gala''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task by July</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the platform to students. ''Juan''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in September.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">Launching Video&nbsp;</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&nbsp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&amp;nbsp];</span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2017)</span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students</span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task by the end of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite this was an incredible idea, our university´is ecosystem is not suitable for this solution. At the moment, this idea is being reformulated by fellows 2017 which consider that in the next few years clubs could be developed, but first it is necessary to work harder on the environment</span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">As clubs are not developed yet, events are being communicated by the Initum centre. However, the UIF meetup would be organized by the 2017 &nbsp;fellows, as well as they are in charge of leading other events related to innovation, for example, Romina took part in the selection process of the students taking the UIF training in 2018.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of June.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the 2017 fellows, this Strategic Point would be launched on august 2018!!</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding the mentors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding the mentoring feature</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now until it is known</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually Initium is working on it as this centre counts with the resources required to develop it, but there is no certainty about the moment this project would be offered to students.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''-''' Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">An external agency is actually working on the communication methods in order to detect problems and propose solutions.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: large;">Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span> ===<br />
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, this idea required an amount of money which the university could not release, considering its priorities. Moreover, building a room for it was not possible considering the space available on campus. As a matter of facts, this project was postponed, and it would be developed when the environment is prepared.</span></span></span></p><br />
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= RELATED LINKS =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IvF54ewASpm-1t4eNfI8dK5ySSHj0XfVVzktmjNaqeU/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]<br />
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Fellows 2017:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]<br />
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Fellows 2018:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sofia_Baldomir Sofia Baldomir]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Claudio_baz Claudio Baz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Echartea Juan Echartea]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gala_Maldonado Gala Maldonado]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Pilosof Diego Pilosof]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lucia_Rodriguez Lucia Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Guillermo_Stock Guillermo Stock]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carolina_Vassallucci Carolina Vassallucci]<br />
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Fellows 2019:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ber%C3%B3n Emanuel Berón]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florencia_Macedo Florencia Macedo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities&diff=78135Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities2018-11-03T19:01:27Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Overview</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e28c-94e1-40e9-bfe7cc399f32"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Th</span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e 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 m<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and m</span>uch more.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law School</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities & Education</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science&nbsp;and Economics</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Communication</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities and Teaching School</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Biomedical Sciences (For graduate students)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business School (IEEM)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for tertiary training in services and innovation</span></span></span></span></li><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 43 different major for undergraduate students and 22 majors for graduate students</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 degrees</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span></span><br />
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= '''<span style="font-size: x-large;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2019)</span>'''<br/> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy One: UMornings: Empowering students</span>'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After researching and understanding students in our university we were not surprised to find out they feel demotivated and reluctant to get involved in most activities, including the ones that have to do with their education.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Since we understood a crucial part of the I&E culture is to feel empowered, we strongly believe that our first strategy should focus on tackling this issue.&nbsp;Students need to be inspired in order to achieve great things, this is why we propose a free event where students and staff can be inspired by hearing someone's story.&nbsp;The power of storytelling can have a positive impact on students and provide the perfect environment for entrepreneurship to flourish.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">For this idea to happen we would need a room available at a given time for a previously selected speaker to join us. We strongly believe that offering food produced and manufactured by different small student ventures would be valuable for both, the event and them. While researching we discovered an abundance of this type of small businesses and we think that forging strategic alliances with them can not only boost their growth but also show students that being an entrepreneur is a highly supported career option by Universidad de Montevideo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We expect that these motivational and inspirational talks improve the perception of I&E in our university. It would be ideal to do these twice a month.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to Romina Dominzaín to obtain the support from Initium and gather contact information to select speakers. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms to ask for an available room in the selected date. It is crucial to make sure the room is cleared and eating and drinking is allowed. Mauricio would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Talk to the entrepreneurs in order to sell them the idea. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:&nbsp;'''Start the marketing and communication strategy to attract people. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Launch the first UMorning Event.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Customizing Faculty Info</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">While researching why students knew, overall, &nbsp;little to none about I&E we found a deeper problem. Communication through out our University is not at its best. Students in our school do not know most of the what our University has to offer, including subjects, events and more. We realized that there is a huge amount of data that is not reaching the people that would appreciate it and make the most out of it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe this is because students´s interests and needs are not taken into consideration when it comes to communicating new courses, events or student initiatives.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If this was taken care of, students would have a better chance to get to know people with similar interests and, not only generate new connections that could foster I&E through out campus, but also make the best out of their University experience.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We propose to merge information and technology to create a database with the students´s likes and passions. This will allow for automation in the area of communication leading to better targeting when sending info by email. In other words, if the correct people received the correct information we could create new and better opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to the IT Department to make possible this automatization. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Design a standardized way to gather the student's needs and passions. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Teach the new system to the people in charge of spreading the information making sure they understand this will in no way replace their jobs, only make them easier. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:'''&nbsp;Implement the system.</span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''Strategy Three: Let's Take Recycling Seriously'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Montevideo has a huge problem regarding waste. In 2017 a local newspaper published that the place where our city displays waste will exceed its capacity in no more than 5 years. Currently our University does not have an efficient recycling program and it’s not focusing on impacting our community and conscientizing its students and staff, that are as well citizens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After LOOP, Semana de la Innovación, in which we brought to the University a social project called “Resuena”, everybody got aware of a problem no one had realized before. Aiming to spread a 360° message of sustainability, LOOP allied with that key partner to foster a never seen environmental awareness program on it’s participants and staff. As previously stated, Montevideo as a whole, is facing a deep problem related to the limited capacity of trash dumps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">With the goal in mind to generate change, Resuena put 10 recycle bin stations with their corresponding banners along the building to classify the trash in three simple categories:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Organic waste</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Recyclable stuff</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mixed trash</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Even though 3 categories is not quite enough to make a correct classification of the trash, it’s a great beginning for a country with a poor, but slowly increasing culture of recycling. Nevertheless, it was utterly surprising how people, participants and authorities reacted positively to this initiative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We think that environmental awareness is a vital matter and, as agents of change, it’s part of our duty to lead by example and get our peers into those small habits that create a better world for all of us every day. Thus, knowing that this action is likely to be well accepted by all students and it’s potential to open a wide new range of innovative ideas, our proposal is to make a win-win alliance with Resuena in the short run.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Arrange a meeting with Antonio Carvalho, the leader of Resuena and manager of a local high school. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Find people who can pick up the recyclable stuff and contact them. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Use Antonio’s guidance to understand the potential recycling hotspots along schools. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4: '''Elaborate a complete budget with the cost of implementation of both, recycling stations and teaching banners. Also, start our compost with help of Lombriz urbana. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5: '''Present a campaign and workshop to instruct interested students, staff and authorities. Making people feel into this change will definitely make it last. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Four: Transform The Canteen Into a Collaborative Space</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Universidad de Montevideo faces an intrinsic problem when it comes to space. Our findings revealed that there is not enough space in general. Classrooms are crowded, open public spaces are not enough, the canteen is small and not practical and, most importantly, there is no space to work on projects. Moreover, we got to know the real possibilities regarding budget. Reality is, our University does not have the funding to involve itself in a bigger project. More research into the causes of the problem made us realize what we could tackle effectively was the way spaces were being used. We then decided that, in order to foster the I&E culture, we could reorganize and rethink already existent places.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe that collaboration between both, random people and peers, does have a deep impact in people’s sense of community. According to our findings, many people don’t use their schoolspaces to study or interact because, due to several reasons, they don’t find on it what they need.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">These are some of the insights we found as well as some of the ideas we came up with during our design thinking process:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Foster shared places like the Ping Pong and mini-soccer areas.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">To have long tables at the canteen and the patio to make students seat together and promote interaction.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The need for a space of Co-work (considering the evident lack of space we are facing).</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">People want more multidisciplinary interaction through taking subjects of other areas of knowledge.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The canteen stays behind the high level of service in every school.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After a long and challenging process of understanding not obvious relationships between people’s insights (interest of knowing new people and working with them) and the possibilities of a short of space institution, we ended up in a simple but different solution.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small four-people tables instead of bigger furniture?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Integrating both, people's interests and the way we would like our canteen display be like, we redesigned the space to be more collaborative and teamwork-friendly through acquisitions of longer tables.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Redesigned in this way, it is a new opportunity to create a space for people to spend their free time as well as work in big teams or even interact with random students seated close to them. We think that, with a little investment, and no bigger space requirements, this is a simple but perfect solution to foster a sense of unity amongst students. And so, sooner than later, will generate an I&E-friendly place and a collaborative mindset, both powered by a change on the display and a few other details.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Re-emphasize with users. Have a deeper understanding of the space needs along the day. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Understand the space capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until we find out the right one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option). Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Estimate a budget to make the acquisitions we found out on previous step. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:''' Find a temporary place to storage the old furniture until we can sell it. Unless the university wants to keep it or do anything else. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Present the project to potential sponsors to make the economic effort easier. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy One: Recycle a room into a Makerspace called i-room</span> ===<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">Our university faces, nowadays, a problem related to the subjects available for students. Each major and school counts with its own subjects offered to students and they do not have the possibility to choose courses from other schools. As a matter of facts, a student majoring in law is not able to take classes about Innovation or Entrepreneurship, for instance. Therefore, we propose to cr<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eate a Makerspace in order to solve this problem. A room from one of our campuses´ building woul</span>d be recycled by students into a place where projects could be developed. Also, free short-term courses on Design Thinking, creativity and other topics related to I&E would be offered for students who are interested and willing to start working on their own projects.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms in order to ask the donation of a room for this purpose. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, at the beginning of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start building the new materials and working on the donated room. ''Guillermo''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Lucia will organise them in May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search for sponsors in order to equip the room with new technology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claudio will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #6: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the i-room to the community of students. ''Diego''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this by the end of June</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Online courses for teachers about I&E</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the analysis of the Landscape Canvas, we were surprised with the amount of teachers which lack of formation and information regarding I&E. Therefore, we propose to create a mandatory online course for all teachers. It would be online so they could handle it considering their convenience and regarding their working schedule. In order to complete the course, teachers would have to form groups and also contact students in order to create a project, which would be presented to the university, solving an specific problem proposed. Indeed, teachers would not only gain insight about I&E topics, but would also develop new skills and get to know better their students. Furthermore, strong alliances could be formed from this challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Passadore in order to approve and design the course. </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina will handle this task, between 1st of April and 20th of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set a meeting for each school with all the teachers to launch the course and explain its importance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diego will handle this task. We hope to do this at the middle of June when courses of the semester are finished.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Form an I&E club</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">nterest on I&E is difficult to find among the students at our university. Therefore, we propose to form an I&E club to solve this problem. This club would have several tasks to complete in order to increase the amount of students interested on innovation and entrepreneurship, as we consider the lack of interest is explained by the absence of promotion. To begin with, the club would be in charge of organizing campaigns, talks and events to attract more students to become members. Secondly, it would launch different competitions, through the year time, which would propose solution to companies´ problems or university´s issues. Finally, they would create an online multimedia library open to all students, containing films, books, videos, podcasts, work calls, reports, interviews, or any material on I&E. In this way, students can immerse themselves on I&E topics at their convenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the authorities in order to receive their approval for the club formation. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, between 5th of April and 13 of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create the club, the initial members would be the 12 fellows our university which would be in charge of adding members. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucia will handle this task, at the beginning of May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Re-validate mandatory internships</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the interviews done to students recently, we found out that they do not have much free time in order to spend working on their projects. In other words, students spend most of the day at the university facilities taking lessons, and when they reach their homes they have quite a lot to work on and study for the the rest of the week. Furthermore, most majors have mandatory internships every year of study for the holidays, and as a matter of facts, students do not have much spare time at that moment either to develop their projects or ideas. All things considered, we propose the introduce a programme which re-validates mandatory internships to students who are working on projects, considering this a possibility for them to develop their entrepreneurial abilities. This programme would have specific requirements and steps in order to make sure students are taking advantage of the experiences. In addition, we consider this could be done by each student twice, as we believe it is essential they also gain hands on experience in the working field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the internships department in order to obtain approval and design the programme with its requirements. ''Carolina''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicate the programme to students by visiting each class at the beginning of the next semester and provide them with a contact for further information. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be in charge of the organization but all the fellows would visit clases by May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Five: Develop I&E content on the UM`s social networks</span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One problem we can see at our university is the information provided to students and the way to encourage the I&E activities. While working on session 3, we did not find many ways of marketing in the "discover" item. This means that although the offer of innovation and entrepreneurship is varied, communication does not reach students efficiently. Many times what happens is that the students themselves do not pay attention to the graphic material on campus, or the emails sent with invitations to contests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, we have severals ways to encourage and take parts of this information process. Nowadays, the youth spend most of their time using social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter so we thought to take advantage of that in our project. Share daily instagram stories in the instagram account from the University is a great idea to begin with.This can be news related to events, talks, subjects, majors. When published, students would be kept up to date with everything that is happening at the university, as well as the events and projects related to I&E that the University offers, even if they do not read the communicational emails as usually.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the marketing department in order to obtain approval and help them in this process. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Juan will handle this task by the end of March</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch a strong campaign, which could be a raffle that requires to follow the university´s account in order to participate. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sofia will handle this task through April.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Six: Create a phone application for school members</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">In the thread of encouraging the I&E information available (strategy 5), and considering other problems related to communication that our university faces, we thought that creating a platform or phone App could improve the situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this way, students would not be able to see all the news related to I&E displayed, but also to participate in discussions or ask questions. Furthermore, special and attractive notifications could be created in order to announce when important articles or events are posted.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of technology services and also students majoring in communication or systems engineering, and propose the challenge to take part on the programming and design of the app. ''Gala''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task by July</span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">Launching Video&nbsp;</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&nbsp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&amp;nbsp];</span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2017)</span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students</span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task by the end of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite this was an incredible idea, our university´is ecosystem is not suitable for this solution. At the moment, this idea is being reformulated by fellows 2017 which consider that in the next few years clubs could be developed, but first it is necessary to work harder on the environment</span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">As clubs are not developed yet, events are being communicated by the Initum centre. However, the UIF meetup would be organized by the 2017 &nbsp;fellows, as well as they are in charge of leading other events related to innovation, for example, Romina took part in the selection process of the students taking the UIF training in 2018.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of June.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the 2017 fellows, this Strategic Point would be launched on august 2018!!</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding the mentors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding the mentoring feature</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now until it is known</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually Initium is working on it as this centre counts with the resources required to develop it, but there is no certainty about the moment this project would be offered to students.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''-''' Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">An external agency is actually working on the communication methods in order to detect problems and propose solutions.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: large;">Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span> ===<br />
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, this idea required an amount of money which the university could not release, considering its priorities. Moreover, building a room for it was not possible considering the space available on campus. As a matter of facts, this project was postponed, and it would be developed when the environment is prepared.</span></span></span></p><br />
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= RELATED LINKS =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IvF54ewASpm-1t4eNfI8dK5ySSHj0XfVVzktmjNaqeU/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]<br />
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Fellows 2017:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]<br />
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Fellows 2018:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sofia_Baldomir Sofia Baldomir]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Claudio_baz Claudio Baz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Echartea Juan Echartea]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gala_Maldonado Gala Maldonado]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Pilosof Diego Pilosof]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lucia_Rodriguez Lucia Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Guillermo_Stock Guillermo Stock]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carolina_Vassallucci Carolina Vassallucci]<br />
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Fellows 2019:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ber%C3%B3n Emanuel Berón]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florencia_Macedo Florencia Macedo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities&diff=78134Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities2018-11-03T19:00:47Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Overview</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e28c-94e1-40e9-bfe7cc399f32"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Th</span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e 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 m<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and m</span>uch more.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law School</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities & Education</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science&nbsp;and Economics</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Communication</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities and Teaching School</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Biomedical Sciences (For graduate students)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business School (IEEM)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for tertiary training in services and innovation</span></span></span></span></li><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 43 different major for undergraduate students and 22 majors for graduate students</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 degrees</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy One: UMornings: Empowering students</span>'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After researching and understanding students in our university we were not surprised to find out they feel demotivated and reluctant to get involved in most activities, including the ones that have to do with their education.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Since we understood a crucial part of the I&E culture is to feel empowered, we strongly believe that our first strategy should focus on tackling this issue.&nbsp;Students need to be inspired in order to achieve great things, this is why we propose a free event where students and staff can be inspired by hearing someone's story.&nbsp;The power of storytelling can have a positive impact on students and provide the perfect environment for entrepreneurship to flourish.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">For this idea to happen we would need a room available at a given time for a previously selected speaker to join us. We strongly believe that offering food produced and manufactured by different small student ventures would be valuable for both, the event and them. While researching we discovered an abundance of this type of small businesses and we think that forging strategic alliances with them can not only boost their growth but also show students that being an entrepreneur is a highly supported career option by Universidad de Montevideo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We expect that these motivational and inspirational talks improve the perception of I&E in our university. It would be ideal to do these twice a month.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to Romina Dominzaín to obtain the support from Initium and gather contact information to select speakers. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms to ask for an available room in the selected date. It is crucial to make sure the room is cleared and eating and drinking is allowed. Mauricio would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Talk to the entrepreneurs in order to sell them the idea. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:&nbsp;'''Start the marketing and communication strategy to attract people. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Launch the first UMorning Event.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Customizing Faculty Info</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">While researching why students knew, overall, &nbsp;little to none about I&E we found a deeper problem. Communication through out our University is not at its best. Students in our school do not know most of the what our University has to offer, including subjects, events and more. We realized that there is a huge amount of data that is not reaching the people that would appreciate it and make the most out of it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe this is because students´s interests and needs are not taken into consideration when it comes to communicating new courses, events or student initiatives.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If this was taken care of, students would have a better chance to get to know people with similar interests and, not only generate new connections that could foster I&E through out campus, but also make the best out of their University experience.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We propose to merge information and technology to create a database with the students´s likes and passions. This will allow for automation in the area of communication leading to better targeting when sending info by email. In other words, if the correct people received the correct information we could create new and better opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to the IT Department to make possible this automatization. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Design a standardized way to gather the student's needs and passions. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Teach the new system to the people in charge of spreading the information making sure they understand this will in no way replace their jobs, only make them easier. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:'''&nbsp;Implement the system.</span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''Strategy Three: Let's Take Recycling Seriously'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Montevideo has a huge problem regarding waste. In 2017 a local newspaper published that the place where our city displays waste will exceed its capacity in no more than 5 years. Currently our University does not have an efficient recycling program and it’s not focusing on impacting our community and conscientizing its students and staff, that are as well citizens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After LOOP, Semana de la Innovación, in which we brought to the University a social project called “Resuena”, everybody got aware of a problem no one had realized before. Aiming to spread a 360° message of sustainability, LOOP allied with that key partner to foster a never seen environmental awareness program on it’s participants and staff. As previously stated, Montevideo as a whole, is facing a deep problem related to the limited capacity of trash dumps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">With the goal in mind to generate change, Resuena put 10 recycle bin stations with their corresponding banners along the building to classify the trash in three simple categories:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Organic waste</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Recyclable stuff</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mixed trash</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Even though 3 categories is not quite enough to make a correct classification of the trash, it’s a great beginning for a country with a poor, but slowly increasing culture of recycling. Nevertheless, it was utterly surprising how people, participants and authorities reacted positively to this initiative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We think that environmental awareness is a vital matter and, as agents of change, it’s part of our duty to lead by example and get our peers into those small habits that create a better world for all of us every day. Thus, knowing that this action is likely to be well accepted by all students and it’s potential to open a wide new range of innovative ideas, our proposal is to make a win-win alliance with Resuena in the short run.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Arrange a meeting with Antonio Carvalho, the leader of Resuena and manager of a local high school. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Find people who can pick up the recyclable stuff and contact them. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Use Antonio’s guidance to understand the potential recycling hotspots along schools. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4: '''Elaborate a complete budget with the cost of implementation of both, recycling stations and teaching banners. Also, start our compost with help of Lombriz urbana. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5: '''Present a campaign and workshop to instruct interested students, staff and authorities. Making people feel into this change will definitely make it last. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Four: Transform The Canteen Into a Collaborative Space</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Universidad de Montevideo faces an intrinsic problem when it comes to space. Our findings revealed that there is not enough space in general. Classrooms are crowded, open public spaces are not enough, the canteen is small and not practical and, most importantly, there is no space to work on projects. Moreover, we got to know the real possibilities regarding budget. Reality is, our University does not have the funding to involve itself in a bigger project. More research into the causes of the problem made us realize what we could tackle effectively was the way spaces were being used. We then decided that, in order to foster the I&E culture, we could reorganize and rethink already existent places.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe that collaboration between both, random people and peers, does have a deep impact in people’s sense of community. According to our findings, many people don’t use their schoolspaces to study or interact because, due to several reasons, they don’t find on it what they need.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">These are some of the insights we found as well as some of the ideas we came up with during our design thinking process:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Foster shared places like the Ping Pong and mini-soccer areas.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">To have long tables at the canteen and the patio to make students seat together and promote interaction.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The need for a space of Co-work (considering the evident lack of space we are facing).</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">People want more multidisciplinary interaction through taking subjects of other areas of knowledge.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The canteen stays behind the high level of service in every school.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After a long and challenging process of understanding not obvious relationships between people’s insights (interest of knowing new people and working with them) and the possibilities of a short of space institution, we ended up in a simple but different solution.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small four-people tables instead of bigger furniture?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Integrating both, people's interests and the way we would like our canteen display be like, we redesigned the space to be more collaborative and teamwork-friendly through acquisitions of longer tables.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Redesigned in this way, it is a new opportunity to create a space for people to spend their free time as well as work in big teams or even interact with random students seated close to them. We think that, with a little investment, and no bigger space requirements, this is a simple but perfect solution to foster a sense of unity amongst students. And so, sooner than later, will generate an I&E-friendly place and a collaborative mindset, both powered by a change on the display and a few other details.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Re-emphasize with users. Have a deeper understanding of the space needs along the day. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Understand the space capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until we find out the right one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option). Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Estimate a budget to make the acquisitions we found out on previous step. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:''' Find a temporary place to storage the old furniture until we can sell it. Unless the university wants to keep it or do anything else. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Present the project to potential sponsors to make the economic effort easier. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy One: Recycle a room into a Makerspace called i-room</span> ===<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">Our university faces, nowadays, a problem related to the subjects available for students. Each major and school counts with its own subjects offered to students and they do not have the possibility to choose courses from other schools. As a matter of facts, a student majoring in law is not able to take classes about Innovation or Entrepreneurship, for instance. Therefore, we propose to cr<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eate a Makerspace in order to solve this problem. A room from one of our campuses´ building woul</span>d be recycled by students into a place where projects could be developed. Also, free short-term courses on Design Thinking, creativity and other topics related to I&E would be offered for students who are interested and willing to start working on their own projects.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms in order to ask the donation of a room for this purpose. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, at the beginning of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start building the new materials and working on the donated room. ''Guillermo''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Lucia will organise them in May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search for sponsors in order to equip the room with new technology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claudio will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #5: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Martha Passadore, academic coordinator and teacher, in order to ask her to be in charge of conducting the introductory courses. ''Sofia''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this in June.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #6: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the i-room to the community of students. ''Diego''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this by the end of June</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Online courses for teachers about I&E</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the analysis of the Landscape Canvas, we were surprised with the amount of teachers which lack of formation and information regarding I&E. Therefore, we propose to create a mandatory online course for all teachers. It would be online so they could handle it considering their convenience and regarding their working schedule. In order to complete the course, teachers would have to form groups and also contact students in order to create a project, which would be presented to the university, solving an specific problem proposed. Indeed, teachers would not only gain insight about I&E topics, but would also develop new skills and get to know better their students. Furthermore, strong alliances could be formed from this challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Passadore in order to approve and design the course. </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina will handle this task, between 1st of April and 20th of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set a meeting for each school with all the teachers to launch the course and explain its importance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diego will handle this task. We hope to do this at the middle of June when courses of the semester are finished.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Form an I&E club</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">nterest on I&E is difficult to find among the students at our university. Therefore, we propose to form an I&E club to solve this problem. This club would have several tasks to complete in order to increase the amount of students interested on innovation and entrepreneurship, as we consider the lack of interest is explained by the absence of promotion. To begin with, the club would be in charge of organizing campaigns, talks and events to attract more students to become members. Secondly, it would launch different competitions, through the year time, which would propose solution to companies´ problems or university´s issues. Finally, they would create an online multimedia library open to all students, containing films, books, videos, podcasts, work calls, reports, interviews, or any material on I&E. In this way, students can immerse themselves on I&E topics at their convenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the authorities in order to receive their approval for the club formation. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, between 5th of April and 13 of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create the club, the initial members would be the 12 fellows our university which would be in charge of adding members. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucia will handle this task, at the beginning of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start communicating its existence and working on the tasks named before. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gala will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Re-validate mandatory internships</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the interviews done to students recently, we found out that they do not have much free time in order to spend working on their projects. In other words, students spend most of the day at the university facilities taking lessons, and when they reach their homes they have quite a lot to work on and study for the the rest of the week. Furthermore, most majors have mandatory internships every year of study for the holidays, and as a matter of facts, students do not have much spare time at that moment either to develop their projects or ideas. All things considered, we propose the introduce a programme which re-validates mandatory internships to students who are working on projects, considering this a possibility for them to develop their entrepreneurial abilities. This programme would have specific requirements and steps in order to make sure students are taking advantage of the experiences. In addition, we consider this could be done by each student twice, as we believe it is essential they also gain hands on experience in the working field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the internships department in order to obtain approval and design the programme with its requirements. ''Carolina''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicate the programme to students by visiting each class at the beginning of the next semester and provide them with a contact for further information. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be in charge of the organization but all the fellows would visit clases by May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Five: Develop I&E content on the UM`s social networks</span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One problem we can see at our university is the information provided to students and the way to encourage the I&E activities. While working on session 3, we did not find many ways of marketing in the "discover" item. This means that although the offer of innovation and entrepreneurship is varied, communication does not reach students efficiently. Many times what happens is that the students themselves do not pay attention to the graphic material on campus, or the emails sent with invitations to contests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, we have severals ways to encourage and take parts of this information process. Nowadays, the youth spend most of their time using social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter so we thought to take advantage of that in our project. Share daily instagram stories in the instagram account from the University is a great idea to begin with.This can be news related to events, talks, subjects, majors. When published, students would be kept up to date with everything that is happening at the university, as well as the events and projects related to I&E that the University offers, even if they do not read the communicational emails as usually.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the marketing department in order to obtain approval and help them in this process. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Juan will handle this task by the end of March</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Six: Create a phone application for school members</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">In the thread of encouraging the I&E information available (strategy 5), and considering other problems related to communication that our university faces, we thought that creating a platform or phone App could improve the situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this way, students would not be able to see all the news related to I&E displayed, but also to participate in discussions or ask questions. Furthermore, special and attractive notifications could be created in order to announce when important articles or events are posted.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of technology services and also students majoring in communication or systems engineering, and propose the challenge to take part on the programming and design of the app. ''Gala''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task by July</span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">Launching Video&nbsp;</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&nbsp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&amp;nbsp];</span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2017)</span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students</span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task by the end of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite this was an incredible idea, our university´is ecosystem is not suitable for this solution. At the moment, this idea is being reformulated by fellows 2017 which consider that in the next few years clubs could be developed, but first it is necessary to work harder on the environment</span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">As clubs are not developed yet, events are being communicated by the Initum centre. However, the UIF meetup would be organized by the 2017 &nbsp;fellows, as well as they are in charge of leading other events related to innovation, for example, Romina took part in the selection process of the students taking the UIF training in 2018.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of June.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the 2017 fellows, this Strategic Point would be launched on august 2018!!</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding the mentors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding the mentoring feature</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now until it is known</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually Initium is working on it as this centre counts with the resources required to develop it, but there is no certainty about the moment this project would be offered to students.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''-''' Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">An external agency is actually working on the communication methods in order to detect problems and propose solutions.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: large;">Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span> ===<br />
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, this idea required an amount of money which the university could not release, considering its priorities. Moreover, building a room for it was not possible considering the space available on campus. As a matter of facts, this project was postponed, and it would be developed when the environment is prepared.</span></span></span></p><br />
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= RELATED LINKS =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IvF54ewASpm-1t4eNfI8dK5ySSHj0XfVVzktmjNaqeU/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]<br />
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Fellows 2017:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]<br />
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Fellows 2018:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sofia_Baldomir Sofia Baldomir]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Claudio_baz Claudio Baz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Echartea Juan Echartea]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gala_Maldonado Gala Maldonado]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Pilosof Diego Pilosof]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lucia_Rodriguez Lucia Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Guillermo_Stock Guillermo Stock]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carolina_Vassallucci Carolina Vassallucci]<br />
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Fellows 2019:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ber%C3%B3n Emanuel Berón]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Fynn Nicolás Fynn]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Giraudo Mauricio Giraudo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florencia_Macedo Florencia Macedo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities&diff=78133Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities2018-11-03T18:59:56Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Overview</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e28c-94e1-40e9-bfe7cc399f32"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Th</span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e 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 m<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and m</span>uch more.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law School</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities & Education</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science&nbsp;and Economics</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Communication</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities and Teaching School</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Biomedical Sciences (For graduate students)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business School (IEEM)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 43 different major for undergraduate students and 22 majors for graduate students</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 degrees</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy One: UMornings: Empowering students</span>'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After researching and understanding students in our university we were not surprised to find out they feel demotivated and reluctant to get involved in most activities, including the ones that have to do with their education.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Since we understood a crucial part of the I&E culture is to feel empowered, we strongly believe that our first strategy should focus on tackling this issue.&nbsp;Students need to be inspired in order to achieve great things, this is why we propose a free event where students and staff can be inspired by hearing someone's story.&nbsp;The power of storytelling can have a positive impact on students and provide the perfect environment for entrepreneurship to flourish.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">For this idea to happen we would need a room available at a given time for a previously selected speaker to join us. We strongly believe that offering food produced and manufactured by different small student ventures would be valuable for both, the event and them. While researching we discovered an abundance of this type of small businesses and we think that forging strategic alliances with them can not only boost their growth but also show students that being an entrepreneur is a highly supported career option by Universidad de Montevideo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We expect that these motivational and inspirational talks improve the perception of I&E in our university. It would be ideal to do these twice a month.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to Romina Dominzaín to obtain the support from Initium and gather contact information to select speakers. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms to ask for an available room in the selected date. It is crucial to make sure the room is cleared and eating and drinking is allowed. Mauricio would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Talk to the entrepreneurs in order to sell them the idea. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:&nbsp;'''Start the marketing and communication strategy to attract people. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Launch the first UMorning Event.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Customizing Faculty Info</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">While researching why students knew, overall, &nbsp;little to none about I&E we found a deeper problem. Communication through out our University is not at its best. Students in our school do not know most of the what our University has to offer, including subjects, events and more. We realized that there is a huge amount of data that is not reaching the people that would appreciate it and make the most out of it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe this is because students´s interests and needs are not taken into consideration when it comes to communicating new courses, events or student initiatives.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If this was taken care of, students would have a better chance to get to know people with similar interests and, not only generate new connections that could foster I&E through out campus, but also make the best out of their University experience.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We propose to merge information and technology to create a database with the students´s likes and passions. This will allow for automation in the area of communication leading to better targeting when sending info by email. In other words, if the correct people received the correct information we could create new and better opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to the IT Department to make possible this automatization. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Design a standardized way to gather the student's needs and passions. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Teach the new system to the people in charge of spreading the information making sure they understand this will in no way replace their jobs, only make them easier. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:'''&nbsp;Implement the system.</span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''Strategy Three: Let's Take Recycling Seriously'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Montevideo has a huge problem regarding waste. In 2017 a local newspaper published that the place where our city displays waste will exceed its capacity in no more than 5 years. Currently our University does not have an efficient recycling program and it’s not focusing on impacting our community and conscientizing its students and staff, that are as well citizens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After LOOP, Semana de la Innovación, in which we brought to the University a social project called “Resuena”, everybody got aware of a problem no one had realized before. Aiming to spread a 360° message of sustainability, LOOP allied with that key partner to foster a never seen environmental awareness program on it’s participants and staff. As previously stated, Montevideo as a whole, is facing a deep problem related to the limited capacity of trash dumps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">With the goal in mind to generate change, Resuena put 10 recycle bin stations with their corresponding banners along the building to classify the trash in three simple categories:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Organic waste</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Recyclable stuff</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mixed trash</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Even though 3 categories is not quite enough to make a correct classification of the trash, it’s a great beginning for a country with a poor, but slowly increasing culture of recycling. Nevertheless, it was utterly surprising how people, participants and authorities reacted positively to this initiative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We think that environmental awareness is a vital matter and, as agents of change, it’s part of our duty to lead by example and get our peers into those small habits that create a better world for all of us every day. Thus, knowing that this action is likely to be well accepted by all students and it’s potential to open a wide new range of innovative ideas, our proposal is to make a win-win alliance with Resuena in the short run.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Arrange a meeting with Antonio Carvalho, the leader of Resuena and manager of a local high school. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Find people who can pick up the recyclable stuff and contact them. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Use Antonio’s guidance to understand the potential recycling hotspots along schools. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4: '''Elaborate a complete budget with the cost of implementation of both, recycling stations and teaching banners. Also, start our compost with help of Lombriz urbana. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5: '''Present a campaign and workshop to instruct interested students, staff and authorities. Making people feel into this change will definitely make it last. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Four: Transform The Canteen Into a Collaborative Space</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Universidad de Montevideo faces an intrinsic problem when it comes to space. Our findings revealed that there is not enough space in general. Classrooms are crowded, open public spaces are not enough, the canteen is small and not practical and, most importantly, there is no space to work on projects. Moreover, we got to know the real possibilities regarding budget. Reality is, our University does not have the funding to involve itself in a bigger project. More research into the causes of the problem made us realize what we could tackle effectively was the way spaces were being used. We then decided that, in order to foster the I&E culture, we could reorganize and rethink already existent places.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe that collaboration between both, random people and peers, does have a deep impact in people’s sense of community. According to our findings, many people don’t use their schoolspaces to study or interact because, due to several reasons, they don’t find on it what they need.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">These are some of the insights we found as well as some of the ideas we came up with during our design thinking process:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Foster shared places like the Ping Pong and mini-soccer areas.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">To have long tables at the canteen and the patio to make students seat together and promote interaction.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The need for a space of Co-work (considering the evident lack of space we are facing).</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">People want more multidisciplinary interaction through taking subjects of other areas of knowledge.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The canteen stays behind the high level of service in every school.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After a long and challenging process of understanding not obvious relationships between people’s insights (interest of knowing new people and working with them) and the possibilities of a short of space institution, we ended up in a simple but different solution.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small four-people tables instead of bigger furniture?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Integrating both, people's interests and the way we would like our canteen display be like, we redesigned the space to be more collaborative and teamwork-friendly through acquisitions of longer tables.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Redesigned in this way, it is a new opportunity to create a space for people to spend their free time as well as work in big teams or even interact with random students seated close to them. We think that, with a little investment, and no bigger space requirements, this is a simple but perfect solution to foster a sense of unity amongst students. And so, sooner than later, will generate an I&E-friendly place and a collaborative mindset, both powered by a change on the display and a few other details.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Re-emphasize with users. Have a deeper understanding of the space needs along the day. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Understand the space capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until we find out the right one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option). Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Estimate a budget to make the acquisitions we found out on previous step. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:''' Find a temporary place to storage the old furniture until we can sell it. Unless the university wants to keep it or do anything else. Nicolás would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Present the project to potential sponsors to make the economic effort easier. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy One: Recycle a room into a Makerspace called i-room</span> ===<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">Our university faces, nowadays, a problem related to the subjects available for students. Each major and school counts with its own subjects offered to students and they do not have the possibility to choose courses from other schools. As a matter of facts, a student majoring in law is not able to take classes about Innovation or Entrepreneurship, for instance. Therefore, we propose to cr<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eate a Makerspace in order to solve this problem. A room from one of our campuses´ building woul</span>d be recycled by students into a place where projects could be developed. Also, free short-term courses on Design Thinking, creativity and other topics related to I&E would be offered for students who are interested and willing to start working on their own projects.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms in order to ask the donation of a room for this purpose. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, at the beginning of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a campaign in order to form a group of students who volunteer on recycling the materials available and creating new furniture for the Makerspace. ''Juan''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Juan’ll organise them at the end of April.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start building the new materials and working on the donated room. ''Guillermo''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Lucia will organise them in May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search for sponsors in order to equip the room with new technology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claudio will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #5: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Martha Passadore, academic coordinator and teacher, in order to ask her to be in charge of conducting the introductory courses. ''Sofia''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this in June.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #6: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the i-room to the community of students. ''Diego''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this by the end of June</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Online courses for teachers about I&E</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the analysis of the Landscape Canvas, we were surprised with the amount of teachers which lack of formation and information regarding I&E. Therefore, we propose to create a mandatory online course for all teachers. It would be online so they could handle it considering their convenience and regarding their working schedule. In order to complete the course, teachers would have to form groups and also contact students in order to create a project, which would be presented to the university, solving an specific problem proposed. Indeed, teachers would not only gain insight about I&E topics, but would also develop new skills and get to know better their students. Furthermore, strong alliances could be formed from this challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Passadore in order to approve and design the course. </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina will handle this task, between 1st of April and 20th of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set a meeting for each school with all the teachers to launch the course and explain its importance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diego will handle this task. We hope to do this at the middle of June when courses of the semester are finished.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Form an I&E club</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">nterest on I&E is difficult to find among the students at our university. Therefore, we propose to form an I&E club to solve this problem. This club would have several tasks to complete in order to increase the amount of students interested on innovation and entrepreneurship, as we consider the lack of interest is explained by the absence of promotion. To begin with, the club would be in charge of organizing campaigns, talks and events to attract more students to become members. Secondly, it would launch different competitions, through the year time, which would propose solution to companies´ problems or university´s issues. Finally, they would create an online multimedia library open to all students, containing films, books, videos, podcasts, work calls, reports, interviews, or any material on I&E. In this way, students can immerse themselves on I&E topics at their convenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the authorities in order to receive their approval for the club formation. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, between 5th of April and 13 of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create the club, the initial members would be the 12 fellows our university which would be in charge of adding members. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucia will handle this task, at the beginning of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start communicating its existence and working on the tasks named before. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gala will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Re-validate mandatory internships</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the interviews done to students recently, we found out that they do not have much free time in order to spend working on their projects. In other words, students spend most of the day at the university facilities taking lessons, and when they reach their homes they have quite a lot to work on and study for the the rest of the week. Furthermore, most majors have mandatory internships every year of study for the holidays, and as a matter of facts, students do not have much spare time at that moment either to develop their projects or ideas. All things considered, we propose the introduce a programme which re-validates mandatory internships to students who are working on projects, considering this a possibility for them to develop their entrepreneurial abilities. This programme would have specific requirements and steps in order to make sure students are taking advantage of the experiences. In addition, we consider this could be done by each student twice, as we believe it is essential they also gain hands on experience in the working field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the internships department in order to obtain approval and design the programme with its requirements. ''Carolina''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicate the programme to students by visiting each class at the beginning of the next semester and provide them with a contact for further information. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be in charge of the organization but all the fellows would visit clases by May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Five: Develop I&E content on the UM`s social networks</span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One problem we can see at our university is the information provided to students and the way to encourage the I&E activities. While working on session 3, we did not find many ways of marketing in the "discover" item. This means that although the offer of innovation and entrepreneurship is varied, communication does not reach students efficiently. Many times what happens is that the students themselves do not pay attention to the graphic material on campus, or the emails sent with invitations to contests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, we have severals ways to encourage and take parts of this information process. Nowadays, the youth spend most of their time using social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter so we thought to take advantage of that in our project. Share daily instagram stories in the instagram account from the University is a great idea to begin with.This can be news related to events, talks, subjects, majors. When published, students would be kept up to date with everything that is happening at the university, as well as the events and projects related to I&E that the University offers, even if they do not read the communicational emails as usually.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the marketing department in order to obtain approval and help them in this process. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Juan will handle this task by the end of March</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Six: Create a phone application for school members</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">In the thread of encouraging the I&E information available (strategy 5), and considering other problems related to communication that our university faces, we thought that creating a platform or phone App could improve the situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this way, students would not be able to see all the news related to I&E displayed, but also to participate in discussions or ask questions. Furthermore, special and attractive notifications could be created in order to announce when important articles or events are posted.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of technology services and also students majoring in communication or systems engineering, and propose the challenge to take part on the programming and design of the app. ''Gala''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task by July</span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">Launching Video&nbsp;</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&nbsp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&amp;nbsp];</span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2017)</span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students</span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task by the end of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite this was an incredible idea, our university´is ecosystem is not suitable for this solution. At the moment, this idea is being reformulated by fellows 2017 which consider that in the next few years clubs could be developed, but first it is necessary to work harder on the environment</span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">As clubs are not developed yet, events are being communicated by the Initum centre. However, the UIF meetup would be organized by the 2017 &nbsp;fellows, as well as they are in charge of leading other events related to innovation, for example, Romina took part in the selection process of the students taking the UIF training in 2018.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of June.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the 2017 fellows, this Strategic Point would be launched on august 2018!!</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding the mentors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding the mentoring feature</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now until it is known</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually Initium is working on it as this centre counts with the resources required to develop it, but there is no certainty about the moment this project would be offered to students.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''-''' Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">An external agency is actually working on the communication methods in order to detect problems and propose solutions.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: large;">Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span> ===<br />
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, this idea required an amount of money which the university could not release, considering its priorities. Moreover, building a room for it was not possible considering the space available on campus. As a matter of facts, this project was postponed, and it would be developed when the environment is prepared.</span></span></span></p><br />
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= RELATED LINKS =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IvF54ewASpm-1t4eNfI8dK5ySSHj0XfVVzktmjNaqeU/edit?usp=sharing Landscape Canvas]<br />
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Fellows 2017:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]<br />
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Fellows 2018:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sofia_Baldomir Sofia Baldomir]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Claudio_baz Claudio Baz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Echartea Juan Echartea]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gala_Maldonado Gala Maldonado]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Pilosof Diego Pilosof]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lucia_Rodriguez Lucia Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Guillermo_Stock Guillermo Stock]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carolina_Vassallucci Carolina Vassallucci]<br />
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Fellows 2019:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ber%C3%B3n Emanuel Berón]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Fynn Nicolás Fynn]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Giraudo Mauricio Giraudo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florencia_Macedo Florencia Macedo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Priorities:University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities&diff=78132Priorities:University de Montevideo Student Priorities2018-11-03T18:58:11Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div>= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO</span> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Overview</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e28c-94e1-40e9-bfe7cc399f32"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Th</span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e 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 m<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and m</span>uch more.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law School</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities & Education</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science&nbsp;and Economics</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Communication</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities and Teaching School</span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Biomedical Sciences (For graduate students)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business School (IEEM)</span></span></span></span></li><br />
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for tertiary training in services and innovation</span></span></span></span></li><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 43 different major for undergraduate students and 22 majors for graduate students</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 degrees</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span></span><br />
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= '''<span style="font-size: x-large;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2019)</span>'''<br/> =<br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategy One: UMornings: Empowering students</span>'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After researching and understanding students in our university we were not surprised to find out they feel demotivated and reluctant to get involved in most activities, including the ones that have to do with their education.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Since we understood a crucial part of the I&E culture is to feel empowered, we strongly believe that our first strategy should focus on tackling this issue.&nbsp;Students need to be inspired in order to achieve great things, this is why we propose a free event where students and staff can be inspired by hearing someone's story.&nbsp;The power of storytelling can have a positive impact on students and provide the perfect environment for entrepreneurship to flourish.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">For this idea to happen we would need a room available at a given time for a previously selected speaker to join us. We strongly believe that offering food produced and manufactured by different small student ventures would be valuable for both, the event and them. While researching we discovered an abundance of this type of small businesses and we think that forging strategic alliances with them can not only boost their growth but also show students that being an entrepreneur is a highly supported career option by Universidad de Montevideo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We expect that these motivational and inspirational talks improve the perception of I&E in our university. It would be ideal to do these twice a month.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to Romina Dominzaín to obtain the support from Initium and gather contact information to select speakers. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms to ask for an available room in the selected date. It is crucial to make sure the room is cleared and eating and drinking is allowed. Mauricio would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Talk to the entrepreneurs in order to sell them the idea. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:&nbsp;'''Start the marketing and communication strategy to attract people. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Launch the first UMorning Event.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Customizing Faculty Info</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">While researching why students knew, overall, &nbsp;little to none about I&E we found a deeper problem. Communication through out our University is not at its best. Students in our school do not know most of the what our University has to offer, including subjects, events and more. We realized that there is a huge amount of data that is not reaching the people that would appreciate it and make the most out of it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe this is because students´s interests and needs are not taken into consideration when it comes to communicating new courses, events or student initiatives.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If this was taken care of, students would have a better chance to get to know people with similar interests and, not only generate new connections that could foster I&E through out campus, but also make the best out of their University experience.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We propose to merge information and technology to create a database with the students´s likes and passions. This will allow for automation in the area of communication leading to better targeting when sending info by email. In other words, if the correct people received the correct information we could create new and better opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1: '''Talk to the IT Department to make possible this automatization. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Design a standardized way to gather the student's needs and passions. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Teach the new system to the people in charge of spreading the information making sure they understand this will in no way replace their jobs, only make them easier. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:'''&nbsp;Implement the system.</span></span></span><br />
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== <span style="font-size:large;">'''Strategy Three: Let's Take Recycling Seriously'''</span> ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Montevideo has a huge problem regarding waste. In 2017 a local newspaper published that the place where our city displays waste will exceed its capacity in no more than 5 years. Currently our University does not have an efficient recycling program and it’s not focusing on impacting our community and conscientizing its students and staff, that are as well citizens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After LOOP, Semana de la Innovación, in which we brought to the University a social project called “Resuena”, everybody got aware of a problem no one had realized before. Aiming to spread a 360° message of sustainability, LOOP allied with that key partner to foster a never seen environmental awareness program on it’s participants and staff. As previously stated, Montevideo as a whole, is facing a deep problem related to the limited capacity of trash dumps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">With the goal in mind to generate change, Resuena put 10 recycle bin stations with their corresponding banners along the building to classify the trash in three simple categories:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Organic waste</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Recyclable stuff</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Mixed trash</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Even though 3 categories is not quite enough to make a correct classification of the trash, it’s a great beginning for a country with a poor, but slowly increasing culture of recycling. Nevertheless, it was utterly surprising how people, participants and authorities reacted positively to this initiative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We think that environmental awareness is a vital matter and, as agents of change, it’s part of our duty to lead by example and get our peers into those small habits that create a better world for all of us every day. Thus, knowing that this action is likely to be well accepted by all students and it’s potential to open a wide new range of innovative ideas, our proposal is to make a win-win alliance with Resuena in the short run.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Arrange a meeting with Antonio Carvalho, the leader of Resuena and manager of a local high school. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2: '''Find people who can pick up the recyclable stuff and contact them. Nicolás would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3:''' Use Antonio’s guidance to understand the potential recycling hotspots along schools. Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4: '''Elaborate a complete budget with the cost of implementation of both, recycling stations and teaching banners. Also, start our compost with help of Lombriz urbana. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5: '''Present a campaign and workshop to instruct interested students, staff and authorities. Making people feel into this change will definitely make it last. Mauricio and Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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== '''<span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Four: Transform The Canteen Into a Collaborative Space</span>''' ==<br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Universidad de Montevideo faces an intrinsic problem when it comes to space. Our findings revealed that there is not enough space in general. Classrooms are crowded, open public spaces are not enough, the canteen is small and not practical and, most importantly, there is no space to work on projects. Moreover, we got to know the real possibilities regarding budget. Reality is, our University does not have the funding to involve itself in a bigger project. More research into the causes of the problem made us realize what we could tackle effectively was the way spaces were being used. We then decided that, in order to foster the I&E culture, we could reorganize and rethink already existent places.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">We believe that collaboration between both, random people and peers, does have a deep impact in people’s sense of community. According to our findings, many people don’t use their schoolspaces to study or interact because, due to several reasons, they don’t find on it what they need.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">These are some of the insights we found as well as some of the ideas we came up with during our design thinking process:</span></span></span><br />
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*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Foster shared places like the Ping Pong and mini-soccer areas.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">To have long tables at the canteen and the patio to make students seat together and promote interaction.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The need for a space of Co-work (considering the evident lack of space we are facing).</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">People want more multidisciplinary interaction through taking subjects of other areas of knowledge.</span></span></span><br />
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The canteen stays behind the high level of service in every school.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">After a long and challenging process of understanding not obvious relationships between people’s insights (interest of knowing new people and working with them) and the possibilities of a short of space institution, we ended up in a simple but different solution.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small four-people tables instead of bigger furniture?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Integrating both, people's interests and the way we would like our canteen display be like, we redesigned the space to be more collaborative and teamwork-friendly through acquisitions of longer tables.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Redesigned in this way, it is a new opportunity to create a space for people to spend their free time as well as work in big teams or even interact with random students seated close to them. We think that, with a little investment, and no bigger space requirements, this is a simple but perfect solution to foster a sense of unity amongst students. And so, sooner than later, will generate an I&E-friendly place and a collaborative mindset, both powered by a change on the display and a few other details.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #1:''' Re-emphasize with users. Have a deeper understanding of the space needs along the day. Florencia would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #2:''' Understand the space capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until we find out the right one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option). Rodrigo would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Estimate a budget to make the acquisitions we found out on previous step. Édina would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4:''' Find a temporary place to storage the old furniture until we can sell it. Unless the university wants to keep it or do anything else. Nicolás would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5:''' Present the project to potential sponsors to make the economic effort easier. Emanuel would handle this task.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy One: Recycle a room into a Makerspace called i-room</span> ===<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">Our university faces, nowadays, a problem related to the subjects available for students. Each major and school counts with its own subjects offered to students and they do not have the possibility to choose courses from other schools. As a matter of facts, a student majoring in law is not able to take classes about Innovation or Entrepreneurship, for instance. Therefore, we propose to cr<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eate a Makerspace in order to solve this problem. A room from one of our campuses´ building woul</span>d be recycled by students into a place where projects could be developed. Also, free short-term courses on Design Thinking, creativity and other topics related to I&E would be offered for students who are interested and willing to start working on their own projects.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of arranging schedules and classrooms in order to ask the donation of a room for this purpose. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, at the beginning of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a campaign in order to form a group of students who volunteer on recycling the materials available and creating new furniture for the Makerspace. ''Juan''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Juan’ll organise them at the end of April.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start building the new materials and working on the donated room. ''Guillermo''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, and Lucia will organise them in May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search for sponsors in order to equip the room with new technology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claudio will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #5: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Martha Passadore, academic coordinator and teacher, in order to ask her to be in charge of conducting the introductory courses. ''Sofia''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this in June.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #6: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the i-room to the community of students. ''Diego''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task. We hope to do this by the end of June</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Two: Online courses for teachers about I&E</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the analysis of the Landscape Canvas, we were surprised with the amount of teachers which lack of formation and information regarding I&E. Therefore, we propose to create a mandatory online course for all teachers. It would be online so they could handle it considering their convenience and regarding their working schedule. In order to complete the course, teachers would have to form groups and also contact students in order to create a project, which would be presented to the university, solving an specific problem proposed. Indeed, teachers would not only gain insight about I&E topics, but would also develop new skills and get to know better their students. Furthermore, strong alliances could be formed from this challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Maria Passadore in order to approve and design the course. </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina will handle this task, between 1st of April and 20th of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set a meeting for each school with all the teachers to launch the course and explain its importance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diego will handle this task. We hope to do this at the middle of June when courses of the semester are finished.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Form an I&E club</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">nterest on I&E is difficult to find among the students at our university. Therefore, we propose to form an I&E club to solve this problem. This club would have several tasks to complete in order to increase the amount of students interested on innovation and entrepreneurship, as we consider the lack of interest is explained by the absence of promotion. To begin with, the club would be in charge of organizing campaigns, talks and events to attract more students to become members. Secondly, it would launch different competitions, through the year time, which would propose solution to companies´ problems or university´s issues. Finally, they would create an online multimedia library open to all students, containing films, books, videos, podcasts, work calls, reports, interviews, or any material on I&E. In this way, students can immerse themselves on I&E topics at their convenience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the authorities in order to receive their approval for the club formation. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, between 5th of April and 13 of April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create the club, the initial members would be the 12 fellows our university which would be in charge of adding members. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucia will handle this task, at the beginning of May.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start communicating its existence and working on the tasks named before. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gala will handle this task. We hope to do this at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Re-validate mandatory internships</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">From the interviews done to students recently, we found out that they do not have much free time in order to spend working on their projects. In other words, students spend most of the day at the university facilities taking lessons, and when they reach their homes they have quite a lot to work on and study for the the rest of the week. Furthermore, most majors have mandatory internships every year of study for the holidays, and as a matter of facts, students do not have much spare time at that moment either to develop their projects or ideas. All things considered, we propose the introduce a programme which re-validates mandatory internships to students who are working on projects, considering this a possibility for them to develop their entrepreneurial abilities. This programme would have specific requirements and steps in order to make sure students are taking advantage of the experiences. In addition, we consider this could be done by each student twice, as we believe it is essential they also gain hands on experience in the working field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the internships department in order to obtain approval and design the programme with its requirements. ''Carolina''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicate the programme to students by visiting each class at the beginning of the next semester and provide them with a contact for further information. ''Claudio''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be in charge of the organization but all the fellows would visit clases by May.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Five: Develop I&E content on the UM`s social networks</span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One problem we can see at our university is the information provided to students and the way to encourage the I&E activities. While working on session 3, we did not find many ways of marketing in the "discover" item. This means that although the offer of innovation and entrepreneurship is varied, communication does not reach students efficiently. Many times what happens is that the students themselves do not pay attention to the graphic material on campus, or the emails sent with invitations to contests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, we have severals ways to encourage and take parts of this information process. Nowadays, the youth spend most of their time using social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter so we thought to take advantage of that in our project. Share daily instagram stories in the instagram account from the University is a great idea to begin with.This can be news related to events, talks, subjects, majors. When published, students would be kept up to date with everything that is happening at the university, as well as the events and projects related to I&E that the University offers, even if they do not read the communicational emails as usually.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the marketing department in order to obtain approval and help them in this process. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Juan will handle this task by the end of March</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch a strong campaign, which could be a raffle that requires to follow the university´s account in order to participate. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sofia will handle this task through April.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy Six: Create a phone application for school members</span> ===<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium;">In the thread of encouraging the I&E information available (strategy 5), and considering other problems related to communication that our university faces, we thought that creating a platform or phone App could improve the situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this way, students would not be able to see all the news related to I&E displayed, but also to participate in discussions or ask questions. Furthermore, special and attractive notifications could be created in order to announce when important articles or events are posted.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to the people in charge of technology services and also students majoring in communication or systems engineering, and propose the challenge to take part on the programming and design of the app. ''Gala''</span><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task by July</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Launch the platform to students. ''Juan''</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will handle this task, in September.</span></span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78a82846-53f9-3f3e-ff2a-144d024916ef">Launching Video&nbsp;</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&nbsp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViDgaLkmmG4&amp;nbsp];</span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2017)</span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students</span></span></span><br/> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task by the end of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite this was an incredible idea, our university´is ecosystem is not suitable for this solution. At the moment, this idea is being reformulated by fellows 2017 which consider that in the next few years clubs could be developed, but first it is necessary to work harder on the environment</span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">As clubs are not developed yet, events are being communicated by the Initum centre. However, the UIF meetup would be organized by the 2017 &nbsp;fellows, as well as they are in charge of leading other events related to innovation, for example, Romina took part in the selection process of the students taking the UIF training in 2018.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of June.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">According to the 2017 fellows, this Strategic Point would be launched on august 2018!!</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding the mentors.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding the mentoring feature</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now until it is known</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually Initium is working on it as this centre counts with the resources required to develop it, but there is no certainty about the moment this project would be offered to students.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits</span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''-''' Step #1</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Step #2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 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. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">An external agency is actually working on the communication methods in order to detect problems and propose solutions.</span></span></span></p><br />
=== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: large;">Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span> ===<br />
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span></span><br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, this idea required an amount of money which the university could not release, considering its priorities. Moreover, building a room for it was not possible considering the space available on campus. As a matter of facts, this project was postponed, and it would be developed when the environment is prepared.</span></span></span></p><br />
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= RELATED LINKS =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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Fellows 2017:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera Cecilia Tejera]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matias Menendez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurmendez]<br />
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Fellows 2018:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sofia_Baldomir Sofia Baldomir]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Claudio_baz Claudio Baz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Echartea Juan Echartea]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gala_Maldonado Gala Maldonado]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Pilosof Diego Pilosof]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lucia_Rodriguez Lucia Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Guillermo_Stock Guillermo Stock]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carolina_Vassallucci Carolina Vassallucci]<br />
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Fellows 2019:<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ber%C3%B3n Emanuel Berón]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Fynn Nicolás Fynn]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mauricio_Giraudo Mauricio Giraudo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florencia_Macedo Florencia Macedo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=School:Universidad_de_Montevideo&diff=78131School:Universidad de Montevideo2018-11-03T18:56:17Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<span style="font-size:smaller;">''<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science and Economics, and Communication of Universidad de Montevideo</span>''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span><br />
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law School</span></span></li><br />
<li><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities & Education</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science&nbsp;and Economics</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Communication</span></span></li><br />
<li><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Humanities and Teaching School</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Biomedical Sciences (For graduate students)</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business School (IEEM)</span></span></li><br />
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for tertiary training in services and innovation</span></span></li><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 20 different majors for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the schools listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span></span><br />
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== Student Entrepreneurship ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is an increasing number of students who choose to become entrepreneurs at Universidad de Montevideo. Most of them start this path before graduating but it is also often that alumni become entrepreneurs after some professional experience or completing an MBA.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the biggest successful entrepreneur story started in 2009, when Agustina Sartori and Carolina Bañales, two telematic engineers, decided to innovate in the beauty and cosmetics area. They received funds from ANII, settled their office at the university and with some student interns developed the first prototype of a virtual makeover. The product was sold to a local store and after that Start Up Chile, 500 Startups and Plug and Play supported and invested in their new app: [https://glamst.com/ GlamST].</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Sartori banales.jpg]]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:smaller;">''<span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agustina and Carolina founders of GlamST</span></span>''</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social entrepreneurship is also something that is being fostered at UM. Valentina Quagliotti was one of the first entrepreneurs in Uruguay to combine a business model with a social cause when she found [http://ikusi.org/ Ikusi], a social video production startup. She also was the first Director of [http://uy.socialab.com/ Socialab Uruguay], a latin american pre incubator for social ventures.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not everybody succeed at first attempt, that is why Ignacio Menafra started [https://wanna.uy/ Wanna] an e-commerce portal and his fourth venture.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-471b904d-232b-0123-a690-7f365b691711"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, another startup created by a Jeronimo Acosta,&nbsp;has been growing exponentially. His business is called</span></span><u><span style="text-decoration-line: none; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://chilltravel.co/ Chill Travel]</span></u><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and consists of a secure luggage skin that will protect the valuables items carried in the customers bag and will tell him in real-time where his things.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Chilltravel.jpg|border|left|650x350px|Chilltravel.jpg]]</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Jerónimo Acosta, founder of ChillTravel using the secure luggage skin</span>.</span><br />
<div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fortunately there are a lot of successful stories and you can know more about them </span>[http://initium.uy/#video-empren here]<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><br />
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== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b9b9-0680-75de-8012ae1ecec6"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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 [http://www.initium.uy/ Initium]</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 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.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investment Projects Creativity and Innovation, or Entrepreneurial Initiative for example.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, the University has tried to increase the number of professors with and entrepreneurship background. As example of this, we have the coordinator of the Business Management degree. Her name is Maria Passadore, &nbsp;former worker of Endeavour and co-creator with Josefina Maisonnave, Initium Director, &nbsp;of “Pura”. This business is dedicated to the management of boutique hotels of less than 25 rooms. She, has been also working on providing students with useful skills for their future, that is why she has introduced new courses, such as Improvisation Workshops.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, new classrooms have been equipped with moving furniture and prototyping materials in order to create an evironment which promotes innovation.</span><br />
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== University Technology Transfer Function ==<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b3-5085-df74-eedbc7af4231"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The UM doesn’t have a technology transfer office, but it has a &nbsp;policy regarding intellectual property. Everything made in the university belongs to it. However as a student you could ask for the intellectual property of a project before starting it. Then you would have to have a meeting and sign some paperwork.</span></span><br />
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= <span style="font-size:large;">University - Industry Collaboration</span> =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b4-02b2-9360-4c48e60ec4e9"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The university has a wide range of partnerships with different industries and businesses. One of the main reasons for that, are the compulsory internships that each student has to make each summer</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a requisite in order to obtain their degree</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This gives the students a better picture of reality and forces them to evaluate their career and opportunities, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the same time their gain hands on experience and start forming their working network.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b4-02b2-9360-4c48e60ec4e9"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Initium has recently develop some entrepreneurship focus internships in different startups. This initiative not only gives the student the opportunity to experience a real work experience but also stimulates innovation and entrepreneurship at the same time.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-779cc858-b9b4-02b2-9360-4c48e60ec4e9"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some classes come together with local companies to develop or find a solution to a real problem. This semester for example in the Lab V course, telematics and computer engineers used their combined skills to find a solution to Mastra’s prepaid card system. [http://mastra.com.uy/ Mastra] </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a local bar, pioneer in craft beer in Uruguay. It began as a startup founded by Ing.Wilfredo Camacho, graduate of the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universidad de Montevideo</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;and Alejandro Cardozo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wilfredo Camacho, Mastra</span></span><br />
<div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another course that aims to give students the tools to find solutions to real problems is I-Lab. This is a 3 months long course where students form groups, and each group is assigned a different business with whom it has to work with in order to find solutions to the problem that each business is currently facing. All students learn to make use of the Design Thinking techniques and work together with students from all majors, both essential aspects regarding innovation.</span></div><div><br/></div><div>[[File:Labs.JPG|border|left|650x300px|Labs.JPG]]<br/></div><div><br />
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-471b904d-233a-c264-f912-32070a6ccb99"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Josefina Maisonnave- Initium Director</span></span></span><br />
</div><div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In some faculties there are research offices that offer students internships by helping professors in their investigations. Let’s take for example the </span>[https://www.linkedin.com/company/15086209?trk=prof-0-ovw-curr_pos CINOI]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Center of Innovation in Industrial Organization). It’s main objective is to form a stronger bond between the university and the business world, and it’s vision is to be a pioneer Center of Innovation and Applied Research in Industrial Organization in Latin America.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br />
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOOP, Semana de la Innovación.</span></span></span><br/> =<br />
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<span style="color:#696969;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In august 2018 an important event was held at Universidad de Montevideo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#696969;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:LOOP Inn week.jpeg]]</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOOP, Semana de la Innovación </span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was a unique latin american experience that united visionary people, visionary students and visionary organizations worried about inclusion and making an impact in not only the continent, but also the world.</span><br />
<div><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As previously mentioned, LOOP is a community that aims for change, impact and inclusion in Latin America throughout innovation. The event sought to create spaces for inclusion and interdisciplinarity where the exchange of ideas and initiatives could happen and generate movement in our communities.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event had the support of and was organized by Universidad de Montevideo, Universidad Tecnológica, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Universidad CLAEH, and Universidad ORT.</span></span><br/><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The key concepts of the event were:</span></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br />
<li><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INNOVATION:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We aim to add value to our communities and our society, to improve what already exists and to think outside the box.</span></span></span></span></div></li><br />
<li><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPACT:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seek </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to share the spirit of innovation, our accomplishments and, above all, to generate tangible results in the contexts we move in.</span></span></span></span></div></li><br />
<li><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INCLUSION:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not only we work from a place of multidisciplinarity, but also we intend that our successes reach those who are usually excluded and forgotten.</span></span></span></span></div></li><br />
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<div><br/><span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee55a68d-7fff-6f53-d780-8a0b41f2e8f3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Among the activities and methodologies offered, int<span style="font-size:medium;">ernati</span>onal and uruguayan participants got familiar with Design Thinking in order to empathise with users and identify their problems and challenges. In addition, participants applied Lego Serious Play, another innovative methodology, useful to generate solutions. Prototyping based on Lean Methodologies was also a key aspect that proved to be important during the testing phase with real users.</span></span></span></div><br />
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= Regional and Local Economic Development =<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b9e6-9d0d-bff3-b1a96e4173eb"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latin America has become a breeding ground for new businesses led by young people and it is now the second most enterprising region in the world, according to the World Bank.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b9e6-9d0d-bff3-b1a96e4173eb"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What really differentiates Uruguay from its neighbors is it’s incredibly stable economy and political situation, as well as its notable middle class. Uruguay has created an environment welcoming to foreign investment: the legal framework is stable and dependable and in terms of policy, its infrastructure is highly developed and acknowledged to be one of the top countries for software. Uruguay is also well known to be progressive in several fields, such as gay rights and marijuana consumption, which has helped Uruguayan entrepreneurs create products adapted to emerging markets and developed markets” says SeedStars in his last report on Latin American Entrepreneurship.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b9e6-9d0d-bff3-b1a96e4173eb"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uruguay's startup culture is growing incredibly fast this last couple of years. T<span id="docs-internal-guid-471b904d-233b-a63d-5873-24685d7774a5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">he National </span>[http://www.anii.org.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Agency of Innovation and Investigation (ANII)</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">has been an amazing partner of this movement</span></span>.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This agency, which was also named before, analizes startups projects and gives economical support considering the potentiality of each business. Many startups created by students from the University of Montevideo have been supported by the ANI receiving foundings as well as advise. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other entities such as incubators, accelerators, co work spaces and Innovation Centers from the different Universities have also played an incredible role and especially because of the synergy they developed.</span><br />
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= Related Links =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Campus Overview]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows (2017):<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain Romina Dominzain]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez Luis Gurméndez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez Matías Menéndez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera C][http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera ecilia Tejera]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows (2018):<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sofia_Baldomir Sofia Baldomir]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Claudio_baz Claudio Baz]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Echartea Juan Echartea]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gala_Maldonado Gala Maldonado]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Diego_Pilosof Diego Pilosof]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lucia_Rodriguez Lucia Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Guillermo_Stock Guillermo Stock]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Carolina_Vassallucci Carolina Vassallucci]<br />
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University Innovation Fellows (2019):<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ber%C3%B3n Emanuel Berón]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florencia_Macedo Florencia Macedo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/%C3%89dina_Mendiondo Édina Mendiondo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Sanchez Rodrigo Sanchez]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75075Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:46:57Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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[[File:Edina M.jpg]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75073Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:45:54Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl[[File:Edina M.jpg]]</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75071Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:45:20Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currentl</span></span>http://universityinnovation.org/images/c/c6/Edina_M.jpg<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75069Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:44:54Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span>&nbsp;[[File:Edina M.jpg]]<br />
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<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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== <br/>Related links&nbsp;<br/> ==<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] <br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75067Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:43:38Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span> &#x5B;&#x5B;File:Edina M.jpg|none&#x5D;&#x5D; <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<br/>= Related links = [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75065Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:42:37Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
</p><p><img src="/images/c/c6/Edina_M.jpg" _fck_mw_filename="Edina M.jpg" _fck_mw_location="none" alt="Edina M.jpg" /><br />
</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &#160;</span></span><br />
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<h1> Related links </h1><br />
<p><a href="http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo">Universidad de Montevideo</a><br />
</p><p><a href="http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities">Campus Priorities</a><br />
</p></div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75060Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:41:10Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
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[[File:Edina M.jpg]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= Related links =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75058Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:40:10Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
<p style="text-align: right;">http://universityinnovation.org/images/c/c6/Edina_M.jpg</p><br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= Related links =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75057Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:39:07Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
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[[File:Edina M.jpg|border]]<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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= Related links =<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75056Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:38:26Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:Edina_M.jpg&diff=75053File:Edina M.jpg2018-10-19T00:37:42Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div></div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75041Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:28:34Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">[[File:Edina Mendiondo.JPG]](Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=File:Edina_Mendiondo.JPG&diff=75036File:Edina Mendiondo.JPG2018-10-19T00:26:29Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div></div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=75016Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-19T00:13:55Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">(Edina Mendiondo)</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Édina is an undergraduate at the University of Montevideo, currently studying a bachelors in Business Management. Coming from a background of doctors, teachers, vets and even police officers so Édina has never been short of role models to look up to. Like her role models, she’s devoted to helping out others like teaching the elderly how to use technology, mentoring secondary students and even fostering animals.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hobbies include sports and exploring the great outdoors. She used to practice Kung Fu and Handball during her secondary school years. She was born and raised in a small town in the north of Uruguay that borders Brazil hence why she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She has been eager from a young age knowing that language is a way to connect with people so soon she found herself learning English.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-f9225643-7fff-8992-daf8-3138d1b4072f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is passionate about making change in the world, in particular the education sector and is grateful for all the educational opportunities and people who helped her along the way. In the future she hopes to give back and be able help others like they have helped her which is why she has chosen the pathway of business management. &nbsp;</span></span><br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_de_Montevideo_Student_Priorities Campus Priorities]</div>Edinamendiondohttps://universityinnovation.org/index.php?title=Fellow:%C3%89dina_Mendiondo&diff=74515Fellow:Édina Mendiondo2018-10-18T17:13:32Z<p>Edinamendiondo: </p>
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo Universidad de Montevideo]<br />
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