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Priorities:Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities

2019-10-23T20:38:26Z

Mj.hernandezs:

= '''2019 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: Raise awareness on students about '''I&E opportunities available at the campus ==

=== Organize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes students always try to find I&E opportunities and try to reach out but miserably fail when not finding anything at all, that's when they stop and the innovation never develops, not because we lack great ideas, but because we fail on knowing where to search. By organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Provide spaces where the people that live nearby the university can develop ideas ===
Uniandes's location used to be humble and with a high level of poverty, somewhat dangerous to walk around unaware. As for today, the location has evolved into a more secure place. Nevertheless, there's always room for improvement. As already said before, proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the University’sgrowth. Our idea is, the same as the last year's group, to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
Regarding the exploitation of great opportunities, we believe the last group's idea is great, so why not repeat it? At Uniandes, every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments. Creating inter-department I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them
#Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.
#Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.
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=== Boost the number of activities regarding the I&E ecosystem ===
Uniandes somehow fails on having many activities regarding I&E that actually engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By boosting the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Plus, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

== Strategy #2: Freshmen Leaders ==

=== Course(maybe with credits and not mandatory) where first-yearstudents can build closer relationships and are in a smaller environment ===
We thought that if we promote an accompaniment class where students from all careers in their first semesters could attend, where there is a real space to create and develop in their startup, and their encouraged and rewarded for it, as well as given the tools to begin with any sort of idea. So in the program, each one of them earns academic experience, time management knowledge, meets people with their same interests, all within the classroom space.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university and directors of each major to find out whether it is plausible to implement this new class in the curriculum of each career, and if so under which conditions.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading methods, workshops, and general guidelines so that it can adapt to every major.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course but especially assisting students that stand out for more than academic performance.
#Encourage students to participate in the course, starting with the scouting event the university attends.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is to get external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value. This has the purpose to show students that most ideas are viable, and the main requirement is persistence and perseverance.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests by inviting them to the expoandesfair.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the universityis interested in forming alliances and funding research seedbeds focused on engaging freshmen.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

== Strategy #3: Establish Innovation and Entrepreneurship across the curriculum ==

=== Adding more Innovational & Entrepreneurial courses into the Current Curriculum ===

Students from the Department of Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine should be exposed to more courses that integrate the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation applies not only to business students but to all. The real challenge is trying to merge the student's academic focus on the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Students working towards a degree in business or science understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.  The plan of attack to tackle this issue is currently being investigated in the form of creating more courses that are interdisciplinary in nature. A current example of this type, of course, being implemented at Universidad de los Andes would be Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This class is open to students of all majors that are doing the option (minor) in Entrepreneurship, and currently contains students from The School of Business, The School of Sciences, The School of Medicine and The School of Engineering.

Tactics + Milestones

# These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene.
#Set up parameters, terms, and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service and might be a great hands-on learning opportunity for students.

=== Courses on Design Thinking ===

This course should be required by all students and provide an experience that encourages collaboration and design thinking concepts. Students will find benefit in the course, regardless of his or her major.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Seeking Faculty & Administration Support (Strategic Planning) ===

As students who seek the drive to push for innovation entrepreneurship on campus, we understand the need for support from faculty and administrators. As future fellows, we understand that in order for the successful implementation of our tactics, administrators need to see our vision. Therefore, we will soon embark on a unique strategic five-year plan that we as fellows will propose to faculty and administrators. This plan will not only include our vision in regards to innovation & entrepreneurship on campus but also tactics that we think will harness a culture of sustainable creativity.

Tactics + Milestones

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

=== Creating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Scholars Programs ===

Our goal is to create a co-curricular program that will hopefully have curricular aspects in the long run, but this program will be focused on inciting interdisciplinary learning and understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Innovation and Entrepreneurial (I&E) Scholars Program will be open to students across all disciplines and backgrounds and teach them how innovation and entrepreneurship can not only be applied to their majors and interests, but also connect them to other students, fields of study, and perspectives. This program will have a year-long learning process, and a year-long hands-on project, and an opportunity for continued growth in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind students of the importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

== Strategy #4: Enhance the visuals of what Innovation & Entrepreneurship are ==

=== Create Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Creating student organizations that not only teach and inspire innovation but give students the chance to take the wheel with projects that will give them hands-on experience dealing with real-life problems and allow them to solve them.  (This includes: creating small business ideas and taking the steps to create them, and identifying problems within the world and creating think tanks to attempt to solve them).

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

=== Competitions that provide Incentives for Creative Idea Making; Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Challenges built to have students compete with each other for prizes based on varying concepts from which they will develop ideas and attempt to create them and promote them. Universidad de Los Andes currently holds an expoandes and La Muestra semestral, as well as regular Innovation Challenges. The main focus would be to increase participation among the students in all majors and acquire additional faculty participation as well as an increased amount of monetary support.

Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Changing Curriculum and Course Material ===

Changing some of the course material in class to help promote innovation is key. To accomplish this, faculty that are interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship needs to be exposed to the concept of Design Thinking so they can implement course material that will use this method of problem-solving. In addition, faculty should encourage students to use the Makers Space such as Innovandes facilities and should anticipate using all the resources of the campus. Through the use of these spaces, students will organically acquire a desire to continue using skills such as Design Thinking in the future, in turn making the student body more interested and curious in innovation.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

= '''2018 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: '''Helping the students become aware of the I&E opportunities available to them ==

=== Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes, students tend to recall one or two of the initiatives in the I&E ecosystem, but they don’t know what they do and where to access the resource. Additionally, a variety of these extracurricular clubs many times do the same things, confusing the students. By merging and organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Create Ideation spaces with the people that live in the surroundings of the university ===
Uniandes is located in what used to be a humble neighborhood with a high level of poverty. Nowadays, the region has evolved into a more secure and developed one, yet there is still an area for improvement. Proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the with University’s growth. Our idea was to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
At Uniandes, At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments, and creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department</div>
#<div>Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)</div>
#<div>Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them</div>
#<div>Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.</div>
#<div>Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.</div>
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=== Increase the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem ===
 At Uniandes, there are not many activities about I&E that really engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By increasing the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Additionally, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students</div>
#<div>Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)</div>
#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursuing and spinout ==

=== Bring investors from different industries to “Semana de la innovación” (Innovation week) ===
During “Semana de la innovación” in the university students present their startups and the projects they developed during the semester to other students. Unfortunately, the majority of these projects stay in an initial phase and do not transcend to become a real venture due to the lack of support and funding. We want to bring investors that could be interested in these opportunities and will offer funding and support for students to build and take forward their venture.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Generate alliances with investors of different industries</div>
#<div>Give easy access to people from outside the university to the innovation week fair</div>
#<div>Publicize the week of innovation outside of the university</div>
#<div>Talk to the different organizations dedicated to I&E in the university to get involved and help students pursue their idea. </div>

=== Have a class open for students in every faculty where students will have to go to the real world and test their startup ideas. ===
 The courses offered by the university that incorporate I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department but currently, itdoes not exist a course open for every student in the university that incorporates I&E.  The idea will be to open an elective course that helps entrepreneurs develop and test their idea in the real world. The course will be open to everyone. We think if students have some sort of orientation and support from experts there is a higher probability that the projects will succeed or at least get to the phase of pursuing or spin out.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Present the idea of a new course elective course to the directives </div>
#<div>Design the curriculum of the course with the help of the business faculty </div>
#<div>List potential teachers that could lead the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties as to whether they would be interested in the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>
 
=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===
 Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses. </div>
#<div>Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students and teacher assistants. </div>
#<div>Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time, </div>
#<div>Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.</div>

== '''Strategy #3:''' Encourage a more complete exposure to I&E initiatives (all faculties, careers, and stages of the career) ==

=== A common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities ===
Create a common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities through a cluster where all this mini-organizations are part of a coordinated cluster that can help the entrepreneurs in different stages. 
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk with all of the relevant organizations that support the I&E ecosystem in the university.  </div>
#<div>Measure the impact each of the different organizations (Empreandes, Empreandinos, WIB, Centro de Emprendimiento, Innovandes) are having to the entrepreneurs in the university acting like one. </div>
#<div>Analyze how much startups are created every year.</div>

=== National event around I&E ===
Create a national event around I&E that shows the trending innovations and most voted projects in universities'''.'''
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Evaluate the possible impact that the event could have, by measuring the number of people that attend it.</div>
#<div>Make strategic partnerships with other universities to promote the I&E culture</div>
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=== Course where all careers come together and work on a project ===
Course where all careers come together and work on a project that will teach them how to build a startup from scratch and prepare them with the tools to innovate anywhere in any occupation.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Measure the immediate impact in the students, faculty and the communities involved, after they see the course.</div>
#<div>Evaluate how the course adds value to the I&E ecosystem in the university, creating statistical data that let have great information about it.</div>

=== Inspirational talks ===

Create a series of weekly inspirational talks with key people from I&E backgrounds that will let them support the culture creation.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Define a series of topics that can be relevant to the people in the university with I&E in mind.
#Choose spaces in the talks, where people can make networking and connect with key people that will attend the events.
#Making 30 talks with experts that have been in the field of I&E, and that will let us to improve the culture and importance of it.

== Strategy #4: Enhancing the innovative spirit of the community ==

=== Course with credits (maybe an elective) where students can pursue their entrepreneurship projects ===
We thought that if we create a class where students from all careers and semesters could attend where there is a real space to create and develop in real life their startup. So in the program, each one of them earns academic credits with their startup, as long as they can prove that they are having real results.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Starting each semester or year, organize a SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas ===
In this case, the idea is to organize a semestral SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas.
 Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances with.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2017 Student Priorities: ''' =

== STRATEGY #1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME AWARE OF THE I&E OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. ==

=== Create a platform to connect student’s interests with I&E offers ===

Create a website/app that offers students I&E related resources (be it a workshop, a conference, or any other sort of event) based on their own particular preferences.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Empathize with students to understand what other services that the app could offer are important to them.
#Create a way to have students showcase their own projects within the app. This could be in the form of a gallery, or the possibility to create their own events and list them with the other I&E offers.
#Develop a database with all the different events related to I&E across campus.
#Develop the website and mobile app.  

=== Introduce students to the formal and informal initiatives involving development as an entrepreneur ===

An interactive blog, that has a printed version in the form of a magazine or catalog, that helps students track the different activities that are going on around campus. This could also be a space where the Innovator of the Month, so to speak, is presented alongside their work.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time.
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the formal learning of students in the classroom. Bonuses for attending specific initiatives that are related to the subject of study.
#Search the community for entrepreneurs to present in the blog before it is renowned enough that students are the ones who go in the search of the blog manager to have their work published.
#Develop the blog.


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At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind studentsthe importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
A big problem for students when looking to get a grasp of Innovation and Entreprenurship is that Los Andes is quite a bureaucratic institution; this means that every particular issue needs to be taken to a particular dependency…the problem with I&E is that all the resources are not necessarily located in the same building nor even close to each other. Hence, we would like to unify I&E in a single space (be it a building or a new dependency that handles all I&E procedures, raging from providing information about events to actually carrying them out).'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Present the idea to the Entrepreneurship center, emphasizing that the building they are located in is the top choice to create the I&E hub.
#Develop a daily basis plan: after all this is a place where students know they can always find information and personal aid regarding entrepreneurial processes.
#Provide easy access to mentoring,
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking
#Create events that favor easy team building.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===
We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have littlescope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.
#Develop an active social media management.
#Create a mailbox to receive project information, feedback and opportunities from students.
#Generate alliances with managers of department newspapers and magazines.
#Develop peer to peer methodologies to encourage students to share their projects.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that havecertainaffinity with the course ===
The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:
#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.
#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.
#Provide monthly information updates on the events that will be coming up.
#Open direct communication channels with teachers.

=== Involve innovation activities with course activities ===
The university innovation dependencies provide multiple resources to develop student led innovation projects; especially those developed in the classroom. We will establish alliances with these dependencies and the courses that deal with I&E directly to develop projects hand in hand.Tactics + Milestones:
#Develop a model to have university innovation dependencies (UID) promote course projects.
#Encourage the faculty to work with UID, by emphasizing on the enormous impact that this will have on student projects.
#Share success stories on university media.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website of rewards and challenges ===
We will develop a collaborative website where students can find the I&E recent projects developed in the university, as well as projects under development. Including a "hall of fame" of the most interesting projects, as voted by their peers. Students will also be able to post further challenges and problems to be solved. Other students –and themselves– they could find teammates based on similar interests and characteristics that compliment each other.Tactics + Milestones:
#Development the online portal.
#Generate an active launch campaign on social media.
#Start promoting student’s projects to have the student community develop an interest in this new source of inspiration.
#Find resources for student’s projects.


== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== Creativity Lounge ===
We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge
#Define the look and feel of the Lounge. We are thinking tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), etc.
#Find funding with alumni and then go to the deans; they like it when students work hard to get their own sponsors before going to ask for money where they know they will get it (mainly because it is the department’s mission to foment high impacting student projects)
#Define schedules and regulators. Who is going to monitor the space?
#Define regular material providing alliances to keep the Creativity Lounge up and running nonstop.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===
We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go workin a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initiallywe will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.
#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.
#Define events that will take place inside the Makerspace. As one of our members learned in his videoconference of session 2, keeping a business makerspace up and running is not the hard part…it is getting people interested when an event is going to be held in the facility.
#Define communication channels so students have the makerspace top of mind.
#Specify potential alliances with I&E oriented courses, so students can receive some sort of bonus or extra credit in attending the Makerspace’s events.
#Specify the regulation of the Makerspace. Who is going to monitor the space? Is there going to be an expert in charge who can offer valuable input on demand?

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===
At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene
#Set up parameters, terms and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service, and might be a great hands on learning opportunity for students.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: ENHANCING THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY. ==

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===
We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.
#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,
#Create the inter-university alliance of schools that will take part in the competition. Set up a contract determining how the logistics costs will be handled.
#Set up dates and topics of each workshop.
#Develop printed out formats for the students to work on.
#Find external funding to be able to offer a hefty prize! Any sum of money, will not only be of great emotional value for the winner (since he worked hard and won) but also because money is one of the toughest things to access as a young entrepreneur, so we would be really setting the winner’s dreams in motion.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===
Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.
#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.
#Set up a specific date to have the gallery automatically reserved each semester.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live streaming of the University’s sports events ===
Sports are one of the strongest bonds that young people have among them. Specially in Latin America, where soccer is pretty much a religion for example, being able to broadcast the “fútbol” games to the rest of the community online is something that would definitely bring the community together. That said, we intend to transmit all games (not just soccer games) because we think that there is no reason to exclude others. Even if only one person watches a Chess Match’s broadcasting, we will be happy to think that we made that one extra person happy and it only took a few extra clicks programming the link to watch it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Implement a tab on the main website where the games are broadcasted.
#Conduct surveys to see which games are most people interested in.
#Fromthisit will be easier to analyze which games should we focus on broadcasting first.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2019:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juliana_Ramirez Juliana Ramirez ]

[[María José Hernández Sánchez|María José Hernández]]

[[User:Pbuenahora|Pablo Buenahora]]

Fellows 2018:

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde]]

[[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[David Delgado|Daivd Delgado]]

[[Camilo Villa|Camilo Villa]]

Fellows 2017:

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro Juan Isaza]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila Buenaventura]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana Solano]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas Castro]]


[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities

2019-10-23T20:38:12Z

Mj.hernandezs:

= '''2019 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: Raise awareness on students about '''I&E opportunities available at the campus ==

=== Organize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes students always try to find I&E opportunities and try to reach out but miserably fail when not finding anything at all, that's when they stop and the innovation never develops, not because we lack great ideas, but because we fail on knowing where to search. By organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Provide spaces where the people that live nearby the university can develop ideas ===
Uniandes's location used to be humble and with a high level of poverty, somewhat dangerous to walk around unaware. As for today, the location has evolved into a more secure place. Nevertheless, there's always room for improvement. As already said before, proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the University’sgrowth. Our idea is, the same as the last year's group, to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
Regarding the exploitation of great opportunities, we believe the last group's idea is great, so why not repeat it? At Uniandes, every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments. Creating inter-department I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them
#Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.
#Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.
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=== Boost the number of activities regarding the I&E ecosystem ===
Uniandes somehow fails on having many activities regarding I&E that actually engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By boosting the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Plus, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

== Strategy #2: Freshmen Leaders ==

=== Course(maybe with credits and not mandatory) where first-yearstudents can build closer relationships and are in a smaller environment ===
We thought that if we promote an accompaniment class where students from all careers in their first semesters could attend, where there is a real space to create and develop in their startup, and their encouraged and rewarded for it, as well as given the tools to begin with any sort of idea. So in the program, each one of them earns academic experience, time management knowledge, meets people with their same interests, all within the classroom space.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university and directors of each major to find out whether it is plausible to implement this new class in the curriculum of each career, and if so under which conditions.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading methods, workshops, and general guidelines so that it can adapt to every major.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course but especially assisting students that stand out for more than academic performance.
#Encourage students to participate in the course, starting with the scouting event the university attends.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is to get external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value. This has the purpose to show students that most ideas are viable, and the main requirement is persistence and perseverance.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests by inviting them to the expoandesfair.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the universityis interested in forming alliances and funding research seedbeds focused on engaging freshmen.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

== Strategy #3: Establish Innovation and Entrepreneurship across the curriculum ==

=== Adding more Innovational & Entrepreneurial courses into the Current Curriculum ===

Students from the Department of Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine should be exposed to more courses that integrate the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation applies not only to business students but to all. The real challenge is trying to merge the student's academic focus on the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Students working towards a degree in business or science understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.  The plan of attack to tackle this issue is currently being investigated in the form of creating more courses that are interdisciplinary in nature. A current example of this type, of course, being implemented at Universidad de los Andes would be Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This class is open to students of all majors that are doing the option (minor) in Entrepreneurship, and currently contains students from The School of Business, The School of Sciences, The School of Medicine and The School of Engineering.

Tactics + Milestones

# These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene.
#Set up parameters, terms, and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service and might be a great hands-on learning opportunity for students.

=== Courses on Design Thinking ===

This course should be required by all students and provide an experience that encourages collaboration and design thinking concepts. Students will find benefit in the course, regardless of his or her major.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Seeking Faculty & Administration Support (Strategic Planning) ===

As students who seek the drive to push for innovation entrepreneurship on campus, we understand the need for support from faculty and administrators. As future fellows, we understand that in order for the successful implementation of our tactics, administrators need to see our vision. Therefore, we will soon embark on a unique strategic five-year plan that we as fellows will propose to faculty and administrators. This plan will not only include our vision in regards to innovation & entrepreneurship on campus but also tactics that we think will harness a culture of sustainable creativity.

Tactics + Milestones

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

=== Creating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Scholars Programs ===

Our goal is to create a co-curricular program that will hopefully have curricular aspects in the long run, but this program will be focused on inciting interdisciplinary learning and understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Innovation and Entrepreneurial (I&E) Scholars Program will be open to students across all disciplines and backgrounds and teach them how innovation and entrepreneurship can not only be applied to their majors and interests, but also connect them to other students, fields of study, and perspectives. This program will have a year-long learning process, and a year-long hands-on project, and an opportunity for continued growth in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind students of the importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

== Strategy #4: Enhance the visuals of what Innovation & Entrepreneurship are ==

=== Create Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Creating student organizations that not only teach and inspire innovation but give students the chance to take the wheel with projects that will give them hands-on experience dealing with real-life problems and allow them to solve them.  (This includes: creating small business ideas and taking the steps to create them, and identifying problems within the world and creating think tanks to attempt to solve them).

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

=== Competitions that provide Incentives for Creative Idea Making; Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Challenges built to have students compete with each other for prizes based on varying concepts from which they will develop ideas and attempt to create them and promote them. Universidad de Los Andes currently holds an expoandes and La Muestra semestral, as well as regular Innovation Challenges. The main focus would be to increase participation among the students in all majors and acquire additional faculty participation as well as an increased amount of monetary support.

Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Changing Curriculum and Course Material ===

Changing some of the course material in class to help promote innovation is key. To accomplish this, faculty that are interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship needs to be exposed to the concept of Design Thinking so they can implement course material that will use this method of problem-solving. In addition, faculty should encourage students to use the Makers Space such as Innovandes facilities and should anticipate using all the resources of the campus. Through the use of these spaces, students will organically acquire a desire to continue using skills such as Design Thinking in the future, in turn making the student body more interested and curious in innovation.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

= '''2018 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: '''Helping the students become aware of the I&E opportunities available to them ==

=== Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes, students tend to recall one or two of the initiatives in the I&E ecosystem, but they don’t know what they do and where to access the resource. Additionally, a variety of these extracurricular clubs many times do the same things, confusing the students. By merging and organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Create Ideation spaces with the people that live in the surroundings of the university ===
Uniandes is located in what used to be a humble neighborhood with a high level of poverty. Nowadays, the region has evolved into a more secure and developed one, yet there is still an area for improvement. Proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the with University’s growth. Our idea was to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
At Uniandes, At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments, and creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department</div>
#<div>Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)</div>
#<div>Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them</div>
#<div>Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.</div>
#<div>Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.</div>
<div> </div>
=== Increase the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem ===
 At Uniandes, there are not many activities about I&E that really engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By increasing the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Additionally, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students</div>
#<div>Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)</div>
#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursuing and spinout ==

=== Bring investors from different industries to “Semana de la innovación” (Innovation week) ===
During “Semana de la innovación” in the university students present their startups and the projects they developed during the semester to other students. Unfortunately, the majority of these projects stay in an initial phase and do not transcend to become a real venture due to the lack of support and funding. We want to bring investors that could be interested in these opportunities and will offer funding and support for students to build and take forward their venture.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Generate alliances with investors of different industries</div>
#<div>Give easy access to people from outside the university to the innovation week fair</div>
#<div>Publicize the week of innovation outside of the university</div>
#<div>Talk to the different organizations dedicated to I&E in the university to get involved and help students pursue their idea. </div>

=== Have a class open for students in every faculty where students will have to go to the real world and test their startup ideas. ===
 The courses offered by the university that incorporate I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department but currently, itdoes not exist a course open for every student in the university that incorporates I&E.  The idea will be to open an elective course that helps entrepreneurs develop and test their idea in the real world. The course will be open to everyone. We think if students have some sort of orientation and support from experts there is a higher probability that the projects will succeed or at least get to the phase of pursuing or spin out.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Present the idea of a new course elective course to the directives </div>
#<div>Design the curriculum of the course with the help of the business faculty </div>
#<div>List potential teachers that could lead the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties as to whether they would be interested in the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>
 
=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===
 Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses. </div>
#<div>Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students and teacher assistants. </div>
#<div>Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time, </div>
#<div>Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.</div>

== '''Strategy #3:''' Encourage a more complete exposure to I&E initiatives (all faculties, careers, and stages of the career) ==

=== A common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities ===
Create a common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities through a cluster where all this mini-organizations are part of a coordinated cluster that can help the entrepreneurs in different stages. 
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk with all of the relevant organizations that support the I&E ecosystem in the university.  </div>
#<div>Measure the impact each of the different organizations (Empreandes, Empreandinos, WIB, Centro de Emprendimiento, Innovandes) are having to the entrepreneurs in the university acting like one. </div>
#<div>Analyze how much startups are created every year.</div>

=== National event around I&E ===
Create a national event around I&E that shows the trending innovations and most voted projects in universities'''.'''
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Evaluate the possible impact that the event could have, by measuring the number of people that attend it.</div>
#<div>Make strategic partnerships with other universities to promote the I&E culture</div>
<div> </div>
=== Course where all careers come together and work on a project ===
Course where all careers come together and work on a project that will teach them how to build a startup from scratch and prepare them with the tools to innovate anywhere in any occupation.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Measure the immediate impact in the students, faculty and the communities involved, after they see the course.</div>
#<div>Evaluate how the course adds value to the I&E ecosystem in the university, creating statistical data that let have great information about it.</div>

=== Inspirational talks ===

Create a series of weekly inspirational talks with key people from I&E backgrounds that will let them support the culture creation.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Define a series of topics that can be relevant to the people in the university with I&E in mind.
#Choose spaces in the talks, where people can make networking and connect with key people that will attend the events.
#Making 30 talks with experts that have been in the field of I&E, and that will let us to improve the culture and importance of it.

== Strategy #4: Enhancing the innovative spirit of the community ==

=== Course with credits (maybe an elective) where students can pursue their entrepreneurship projects ===
We thought that if we create a class where students from all careers and semesters could attend where there is a real space to create and develop in real life their startup. So in the program, each one of them earns academic credits with their startup, as long as they can prove that they are having real results.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Starting each semester or year, organize a SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas ===
In this case, the idea is to organize a semestral SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas.
 Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances with.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2017 Student Priorities: ''' =

== STRATEGY #1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME AWARE OF THE I&E OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. ==

=== Create a platform to connect student’s interests with I&E offers ===

Create a website/app that offers students I&E related resources (be it a workshop, a conference, or any other sort of event) based on their own particular preferences.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Empathize with students to understand what other services that the app could offer are important to them.
#Create a way to have students showcase their own projects within the app. This could be in the form of a gallery, or the possibility to create their own events and list them with the other I&E offers.
#Develop a database with all the different events related to I&E across campus.
#Develop the website and mobile app.  

=== Introduce students to the formal and informal initiatives involving development as an entrepreneur ===

An interactive blog, that has a printed version in the form of a magazine or catalog, that helps students track the different activities that are going on around campus. This could also be a space where the Innovator of the Month, so to speak, is presented alongside their work.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time.
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the formal learning of students in the classroom. Bonuses for attending specific initiatives that are related to the subject of study.
#Search the community for entrepreneurs to present in the blog before it is renowned enough that students are the ones who go in the search of the blog manager to have their work published.
#Develop the blog.


=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty I&E Summits ===
At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind studentsthe importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
A big problem for students when looking to get a grasp of Innovation and Entreprenurship is that Los Andes is quite a bureaucratic institution; this means that every particular issue needs to be taken to a particular dependency…the problem with I&E is that all the resources are not necessarily located in the same building nor even close to each other. Hence, we would like to unify I&E in a single space (be it a building or a new dependency that handles all I&E procedures, raging from providing information about events to actually carrying them out).'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Present the idea to the Entrepreneurship center, emphasizing that the building they are located in is the top choice to create the I&E hub.
#Develop a daily basis plan: after all this is a place where students know they can always find information and personal aid regarding entrepreneurial processes.
#Provide easy access to mentoring,
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking
#Create events that favor easy team building.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===
We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have littlescope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.
#Develop an active social media management.
#Create a mailbox to receive project information, feedback and opportunities from students.
#Generate alliances with managers of department newspapers and magazines.
#Develop peer to peer methodologies to encourage students to share their projects.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that havecertainaffinity with the course ===
The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:
#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.
#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.
#Provide monthly information updates on the events that will be coming up.
#Open direct communication channels with teachers.

=== Involve innovation activities with course activities ===
The university innovation dependencies provide multiple resources to develop student led innovation projects; especially those developed in the classroom. We will establish alliances with these dependencies and the courses that deal with I&E directly to develop projects hand in hand.Tactics + Milestones:
#Develop a model to have university innovation dependencies (UID) promote course projects.
#Encourage the faculty to work with UID, by emphasizing on the enormous impact that this will have on student projects.
#Share success stories on university media.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website of rewards and challenges ===
We will develop a collaborative website where students can find the I&E recent projects developed in the university, as well as projects under development. Including a "hall of fame" of the most interesting projects, as voted by their peers. Students will also be able to post further challenges and problems to be solved. Other students –and themselves– they could find teammates based on similar interests and characteristics that compliment each other.Tactics + Milestones:
#Development the online portal.
#Generate an active launch campaign on social media.
#Start promoting student’s projects to have the student community develop an interest in this new source of inspiration.
#Find resources for student’s projects.


== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== Creativity Lounge ===
We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge
#Define the look and feel of the Lounge. We are thinking tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), etc.
#Find funding with alumni and then go to the deans; they like it when students work hard to get their own sponsors before going to ask for money where they know they will get it (mainly because it is the department’s mission to foment high impacting student projects)
#Define schedules and regulators. Who is going to monitor the space?
#Define regular material providing alliances to keep the Creativity Lounge up and running nonstop.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===
We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go workin a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initiallywe will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.
#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.
#Define events that will take place inside the Makerspace. As one of our members learned in his videoconference of session 2, keeping a business makerspace up and running is not the hard part…it is getting people interested when an event is going to be held in the facility.
#Define communication channels so students have the makerspace top of mind.
#Specify potential alliances with I&E oriented courses, so students can receive some sort of bonus or extra credit in attending the Makerspace’s events.
#Specify the regulation of the Makerspace. Who is going to monitor the space? Is there going to be an expert in charge who can offer valuable input on demand?

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===
At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene
#Set up parameters, terms and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service, and might be a great hands on learning opportunity for students.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: ENHANCING THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY. ==

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===
We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.
#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,
#Create the inter-university alliance of schools that will take part in the competition. Set up a contract determining how the logistics costs will be handled.
#Set up dates and topics of each workshop.
#Develop printed out formats for the students to work on.
#Find external funding to be able to offer a hefty prize! Any sum of money, will not only be of great emotional value for the winner (since he worked hard and won) but also because money is one of the toughest things to access as a young entrepreneur, so we would be really setting the winner’s dreams in motion.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===
Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.
#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.
#Set up a specific date to have the gallery automatically reserved each semester.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live streaming of the University’s sports events ===
Sports are one of the strongest bonds that young people have among them. Specially in Latin America, where soccer is pretty much a religion for example, being able to broadcast the “fútbol” games to the rest of the community online is something that would definitely bring the community together. That said, we intend to transmit all games (not just soccer games) because we think that there is no reason to exclude others. Even if only one person watches a Chess Match’s broadcasting, we will be happy to think that we made that one extra person happy and it only took a few extra clicks programming the link to watch it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Implement a tab on the main website where the games are broadcasted.
#Conduct surveys to see which games are most people interested in.
#Fromthisit will be easier to analyze which games should we focus on broadcasting first.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2019:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juliana_Ramirez Juliana Ramirez ]

[[María José Hernández Sánchez|María José Hernández]]

[[User:Pbuenahora|Pablo Buenahora]]

Fellows 2018:

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde]]

[[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[David Delgado|Daivd Delgado]]

[[Camilo Villa|Camilo Villa]]

Fellows 2017:

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro Juan Isaza]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila Buenaventura]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana Solano]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas Castro]]


[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities

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Mj.hernandezs:

Priorities:Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities

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Mj.hernandezs:

= '''2019 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: Raise awareness on students about '''I&E opportunities available at the campus ==

=== Organize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes students always try to find I&E opportunities and try to reach out but miserably fail when not finding anything at all, that's when they stop and the innovation never develops, not because we lack great ideas, but because we fail on knowing where to search. By organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Provide spaces where the people that live nearby the university can develop ideas ===
Uniandes's location used to be humble and with a high level of poverty, somewhat dangerous to walk around unaware. As for today, the location has evolved into a more secure place. Nevertheless, there's always room for improvement. As already said before, proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the University’sgrowth. Our idea is, the same as the last year's group, to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
Regarding the exploitation of great opportunities, we believe the last group's idea is great, so why not repeat it? At Uniandes, every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments. Creating inter-department I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them
#Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.
#Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.
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=== Boost the number of activities regarding the I&E ecosystem ===
Uniandes somehow fails on having many activities regarding I&E that actually engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By boosting the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Plus, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

== Strategy #2: Freshmen Leaders ==

=== Course(maybe with credits and not mandatory) where first-yearstudents can build closer relationships and are in a smaller environment ===
We thought that if we promote an accompaniment class where students from all careers in their first semesters could attend, where there is a real space to create and develop in their startup, and their encouraged and rewarded for it, as well as given the tools to begin with any sort of idea. So in the program, each one of them earns academic experience, time management knowledge, meets people with their same interests, all within the classroom space.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university and directors of each major to find out whether it is plausible to implement this new class in the curriculum of each career, and if so under which conditions.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading methods, workshops, and general guidelines so that it can adapt to every major.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course but especially assisting students that stand out for more than academic performance.
#Encourage students to participate in the course, starting with the scouting event the university attends.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is to get external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value. This has the purpose to show students that most ideas are viable, and the main requirement is persistence and perseverance.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests by inviting them to the expoandesfair.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the universityis interested in forming alliances and funding research seedbeds focused on engaging freshmen.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

== Strategy #3: Establish Innovation and Entrepreneurship across the curriculum ==

=== Adding more Innovational & Entrepreneurial courses into the Current Curriculum ===

Students from the Department of Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine should be exposed to more courses that integrate the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation applies not only to business students but to all. The real challenge is trying to merge the student's academic focus on the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Students working towards a degree in business or science understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.  The plan of attack to tackle this issue is currently being investigated in the form of creating more courses that are interdisciplinary in nature. A current example of this type, of course, being implemented at Universidad de los Andes would be Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This class is open to students of all majors that are doing the option (minor) in Entrepreneurship, and currently contains students from The School of Business, The School of Sciences, The School of Medicine and The School of Engineering.

Tactics + Milestones

# These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene.
#Set up parameters, terms, and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service and might be a great hands-on learning opportunity for students.

=== Courses on Design Thinking ===

This course should be required by all students and provide an experience that encourages collaboration and design thinking concepts. Students will find benefit in the course, regardless of his or her major.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Seeking Faculty & Administration Support (Strategic Planning) ===

As students who seek the drive to push for innovation entrepreneurship on campus, we understand the need for support from faculty and administrators. As future fellows, we understand that in order for the successful implementation of our tactics, administrators need to see our vision. Therefore, we will soon embark on a unique strategic five-year plan that we as fellows will propose to faculty and administrators. This plan will not only include our vision in regards to innovation & entrepreneurship on campus but also tactics that we think will harness a culture of sustainable creativity.

Tactics + Milestones

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

=== Creating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Scholars Programs ===

Our goal is to create a co-curricular program that will hopefully have curricular aspects in the long run, but this program will be focused on inciting interdisciplinary learning and understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Innovation and Entrepreneurial (I&E) Scholars Program will be open to students across all disciplines and backgrounds and teach them how innovation and entrepreneurship can not only be applied to their majors and interests, but also connect them to other students, fields of study, and perspectives. This program will have a year-long learning process, and a year-long hands-on project, and an opportunity for continued growth in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind students of the importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

== Strategy #4: Enhance the visuals of what Innovation & Entrepreneurship are ==

=== Create Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Creating student organizations that not only teach and inspire innovation but give students the chance to take the wheel with projects that will give them hands-on experience dealing with real-life problems and allow them to solve them.  (This includes: creating small business ideas and taking the steps to create them, and identifying problems within the world and creating think tanks to attempt to solve them).

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

=== Competitions that provide Incentives for Creative Idea Making; Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Challenges built to have students compete with each other for prizes based on varying concepts from which they will develop ideas and attempt to create them and promote them. Universidad de Los Andes currently holds an expoandes and La Muestra semestral, as well as regular Innovation Challenges. The main focus would be to increase participation among the students in all majors and acquire additional faculty participation as well as an increased amount of monetary support.

Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Changing Curriculum and Course Material ===

Changing some of the course material in class to help promote innovation is key. To accomplish this, faculty that are interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship needs to be exposed to the concept of Design Thinking so they can implement course material that will use this method of problem-solving. In addition, faculty should encourage students to use the Makers Space such as Innovandes facilities and should anticipate using all the resources of the campus. Through the use of these spaces, students will organically acquire a desire to continue using skills such as Design Thinking in the future, in turn making the student body more interested and curious in innovation.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

= '''2018 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: '''Helping the students become aware of the I&E opportunities available to them ==

=== Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes, students tend to recall one or two of the initiatives in the I&E ecosystem, but they don’t know what they do and where to access the resource. Additionally, a variety of these extracurricular clubs many times do the same things, confusing the students. By merging and organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Create Ideation spaces with the people that live in the surroundings of the university ===
Uniandes is located in what used to be a humble neighborhood with a high level of poverty. Nowadays, the region has evolved into a more secure and developed one, yet there is still an area for improvement. Proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the with University’s growth. Our idea was to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
At Uniandes, At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments, and creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department</div>
#<div>Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)</div>
#<div>Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them</div>
#<div>Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.</div>
#<div>Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.</div>
<div> </div>
=== Increase the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem ===
 At Uniandes, there are not many activities about I&E that really engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By increasing the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Additionally, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students</div>
#<div>Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)</div>
#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursuing and spinout ==

=== Bring investors from different industries to “Semana de la innovación” (Innovation week) ===
During “Semana de la innovación” in the university students present their startups and the projects they developed during the semester to other students. Unfortunately, the majority of these projects stay in an initial phase and do not transcend to become a real venture due to the lack of support and funding. We want to bring investors that could be interested in these opportunities and will offer funding and support for students to build and take forward their venture.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Generate alliances with investors of different industries</div>
#<div>Give easy access to people from outside the university to the innovation week fair</div>
#<div>Publicize the week of innovation outside of the university</div>
#<div>Talk to the different organizations dedicated to I&E in the university to get involved and help students pursue their idea. </div>

=== Have a class open for students in every faculty where students will have to go to the real world and test their startup ideas. ===
 The courses offered by the university that incorporate I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department but currently, itdoes not exist a course open for every student in the university that incorporates I&E.  The idea will be to open an elective course that helps entrepreneurs develop and test their idea in the real world. The course will be open to everyone. We think if students have some sort of orientation and support from experts there is a higher probability that the projects will succeed or at least get to the phase of pursuing or spin out.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Present the idea of a new course elective course to the directives </div>
#<div>Design the curriculum of the course with the help of the business faculty </div>
#<div>List potential teachers that could lead the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties as to whether they would be interested in the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>
 
=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===
 Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses. </div>
#<div>Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students and teacher assistants. </div>
#<div>Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time, </div>
#<div>Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.</div>

== '''Strategy #3:''' Encourage a more complete exposure to I&E initiatives (all faculties, careers, and stages of the career) ==

=== A common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities ===
Create a common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities through a cluster where all this mini-organizations are part of a coordinated cluster that can help the entrepreneurs in different stages. 
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk with all of the relevant organizations that support the I&E ecosystem in the university.  </div>
#<div>Measure the impact each of the different organizations (Empreandes, Empreandinos, WIB, Centro de Emprendimiento, Innovandes) are having to the entrepreneurs in the university acting like one. </div>
#<div>Analyze how much startups are created every year.</div>

=== National event around I&E ===
Create a national event around I&E that shows the trending innovations and most voted projects in universities'''.'''
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Evaluate the possible impact that the event could have, by measuring the number of people that attend it.</div>
#<div>Make strategic partnerships with other universities to promote the I&E culture</div>
<div> </div>
=== Course where all careers come together and work on a project ===
Course where all careers come together and work on a project that will teach them how to build a startup from scratch and prepare them with the tools to innovate anywhere in any occupation.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Measure the immediate impact in the students, faculty and the communities involved, after they see the course.</div>
#<div>Evaluate how the course adds value to the I&E ecosystem in the university, creating statistical data that let have great information about it.</div>

=== Inspirational talks ===

Create a series of weekly inspirational talks with key people from I&E backgrounds that will let them support the culture creation.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Define a series of topics that can be relevant to the people in the university with I&E in mind.
#Choose spaces in the talks, where people can make networking and connect with key people that will attend the events.
#Making 30 talks with experts that have been in the field of I&E, and that will let us to improve the culture and importance of it.

== Strategy #4: Enhancing the innovative spirit of the community ==

=== Course with credits (maybe an elective) where students can pursue their entrepreneurship projects ===
We thought that if we create a class where students from all careers and semesters could attend where there is a real space to create and develop in real life their startup. So in the program, each one of them earns academic credits with their startup, as long as they can prove that they are having real results.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Starting each semester or year, organize a SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas ===
In this case, the idea is to organize a semestral SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas.
 Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances with.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2017 Student Priorities: ''' =

== STRATEGY #1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME AWARE OF THE I&E OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. ==

=== Create a platform to connect student’s interests with I&E offers ===

Create a website/app that offers students I&E related resources (be it a workshop, a conference, or any other sort of event) based on their own particular preferences.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Empathize with students to understand what other services that the app could offer are important to them.
#Create a way to have students showcase their own projects within the app. This could be in the form of a gallery, or the possibility to create their own events and list them with the other I&E offers.
#Develop a database with all the different events related to I&E across campus.
#Develop the website and mobile app.  

=== Introduce students to the formal and informal initiatives involving development as an entrepreneur ===

An interactive blog, that has a printed version in the form of a magazine or catalog, that helps students track the different activities that are going on around campus. This could also be a space where the Innovator of the Month, so to speak, is presented alongside their work.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time.
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the formal learning of students in the classroom. Bonuses for attending specific initiatives that are related to the subject of study.
#Search the community for entrepreneurs to present in the blog before it is renowned enough that students are the ones who go in the search of the blog manager to have their work published.
#Develop the blog.


=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty I&E Summits ===
At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind studentsthe importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
A big problem for students when looking to get a grasp of Innovation and Entreprenurship is that Los Andes is quite a bureaucratic institution; this means that every particular issue needs to be taken to a particular dependency…the problem with I&E is that all the resources are not necessarily located in the same building nor even close to each other. Hence, we would like to unify I&E in a single space (be it a building or a new dependency that handles all I&E procedures, raging from providing information about events to actually carrying them out).'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Present the idea to the Entrepreneurship center, emphasizing that the building they are located in is the top choice to create the I&E hub.
#Develop a daily basis plan: after all this is a place where students know they can always find information and personal aid regarding entrepreneurial processes.
#Provide easy access to mentoring,
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking
#Create events that favor easy team building.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===
We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have littlescope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.
#Develop an active social media management.
#Create a mailbox to receive project information, feedback and opportunities from students.
#Generate alliances with managers of department newspapers and magazines.
#Develop peer to peer methodologies to encourage students to share their projects.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that havecertainaffinity with the course ===
The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:
#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.
#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.
#Provide monthly information updates on the events that will be coming up.
#Open direct communication channels with teachers.

=== Involve innovation activities with course activities ===
The university innovation dependencies provide multiple resources to develop student led innovation projects; especially those developed in the classroom. We will establish alliances with these dependencies and the courses that deal with I&E directly to develop projects hand in hand.Tactics + Milestones:
#Develop a model to have university innovation dependencies (UID) promote course projects.
#Encourage the faculty to work with UID, by emphasizing on the enormous impact that this will have on student projects.
#Share success stories on university media.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website of rewards and challenges ===
We will develop a collaborative website where students can find the I&E recent projects developed in the university, as well as projects under development. Including a "hall of fame" of the most interesting projects, as voted by their peers. Students will also be able to post further challenges and problems to be solved. Other students –and themselves– they could find teammates based on similar interests and characteristics that compliment each other.Tactics + Milestones:
#Development the online portal.
#Generate an active launch campaign on social media.
#Start promoting student’s projects to have the student community develop an interest in this new source of inspiration.
#Find resources for student’s projects.


== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== Creativity Lounge ===
We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge
#Define the look and feel of the Lounge. We are thinking tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), etc.
#Find funding with alumni and then go to the deans; they like it when students work hard to get their own sponsors before going to ask for money where they know they will get it (mainly because it is the department’s mission to foment high impacting student projects)
#Define schedules and regulators. Who is going to monitor the space?
#Define regular material providing alliances to keep the Creativity Lounge up and running nonstop.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===
We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go workin a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initiallywe will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.
#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.
#Define events that will take place inside the Makerspace. As one of our members learned in his videoconference of session 2, keeping a business makerspace up and running is not the hard part…it is getting people interested when an event is going to be held in the facility.
#Define communication channels so students have the makerspace top of mind.
#Specify potential alliances with I&E oriented courses, so students can receive some sort of bonus or extra credit in attending the Makerspace’s events.
#Specify the regulation of the Makerspace. Who is going to monitor the space? Is there going to be an expert in charge who can offer valuable input on demand?

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===
At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene
#Set up parameters, terms and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service, and might be a great hands on learning opportunity for students.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: ENHANCING THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY. ==

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===
We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.
#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,
#Create the inter-university alliance of schools that will take part in the competition. Set up a contract determining how the logistics costs will be handled.
#Set up dates and topics of each workshop.
#Develop printed out formats for the students to work on.
#Find external funding to be able to offer a hefty prize! Any sum of money, will not only be of great emotional value for the winner (since he worked hard and won) but also because money is one of the toughest things to access as a young entrepreneur, so we would be really setting the winner’s dreams in motion.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===
Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.
#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.
#Set up a specific date to have the gallery automatically reserved each semester.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live streaming of the University’s sports events ===
Sports are one of the strongest bonds that young people have among them. Specially in Latin America, where soccer is pretty much a religion for example, being able to broadcast the “fútbol” games to the rest of the community online is something that would definitely bring the community together. That said, we intend to transmit all games (not just soccer games) because we think that there is no reason to exclude others. Even if only one person watches a Chess Match’s broadcasting, we will be happy to think that we made that one extra person happy and it only took a few extra clicks programming the link to watch it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Implement a tab on the main website where the games are broadcasted.
#Conduct surveys to see which games are most people interested in.
#Fromthisit will be easier to analyze which games should we focus on broadcasting first.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2019:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juliana_Ramirez Juliana Ramirez ]

[[María José Hernández Sánchez|María José Hernández]]

[[User:Pbuenahora|Pablo Buenahora]]

Fellows 2018:

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde]]

[[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[David Delgado|Daivd Delgado]]

[[Camilo Villa|Camilo Villa]]

Fellows 2017:

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro Juan Isaza]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila Buenaventura]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana Solano]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas Castro]]


[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities

2019-10-23T20:33:14Z

Mj.hernandezs:

= '''2019 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: Raise awareness on students about '''I&E opportunities available at the campus ==

=== Organize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes students always try to find I&E opportunities and try to reach out but miserably fail when not finding anything at all, that's when they stop and the innovation never develops, not because we lack great ideas, but because we fail on knowing where to search. By organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Provide spaces where the people that live nearby the university can develop ideas ===
Uniandes's location used to be humble and with a high level of poverty, somewhat dangerous to walk around unaware. As for today, the location has evolved into a more secure place. Nevertheless, there's always room for improvement. As already said before, proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the University’sgrowth. Our idea is, the same as the last year's group, to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
Regarding the exploitation of great opportunities, we believe the last group's idea is great, so why not repeat it? At Uniandes, every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments. Creating inter-department I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them
#Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.
#Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.
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=== Boost the number of activities regarding the I&E ecosystem ===
Uniandes somehow fails on having many activities regarding I&E that actually engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By boosting the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Plus, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

== Strategy #2: Freshmen Leaders ==

=== Course(maybe with credits and not mandatory) where first-yearstudents can build closer relationships and are in a smaller environment ===
We thought that if we promote an accompaniment class where students from all careers in their first semesters could attend, where there is a real space to create and develop in their startup, and their encouraged and rewarded for it, as well as given the tools to begin with any sort of idea. So in the program, each one of them earns academic experience, time management knowledge, meets people with their same interests, all within the classroom space.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university and directors of each major to find out whether it is plausible to implement this new class in the curriculum of each career, and if so under which conditions.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading methods, workshops, and general guidelines so that it can adapt to every major.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course but especially assisting students that stand out for more than academic performance.
#Encourage students to participate in the course, starting with the scouting event the university attends.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is to get external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value. This has the purpose to show students that most ideas are viable, and the main requirement is persistence and perseverance.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests by inviting them to the expoandesfair.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the universityis interested in forming alliances and funding research seedbeds focused on engaging freshmen.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

== Strategy #3: Establish Innovation and Entrepreneurship across the curriculum ==

=== Adding more Innovational & Entrepreneurial courses into the Current Curriculum ===

Students from the Department of Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine should be exposed to more courses that integrate the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation applies not only to business students but to all. The real challenge is trying to merge the student's academic focus on the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Students working towards a degree in business or science understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.  The plan of attack to tackle this issue is currently being investigated in the form of creating more courses that are interdisciplinary in nature. A current example of this type, of course, being implemented at Universidad de los Andes would be Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This class is open to students of all majors that are doing the option (minor) in Entrepreneurship, and currently contains students from The School of Business, The School of Sciences, The School of Medicine and The School of Engineering.

Tactics + Milestones

# These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene.
#Set up parameters, terms, and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service and might be a great hands-on learning opportunity for students.

=== Courses on Design Thinking ===

This course should be required by all students and provide an experience that encourages collaboration and design thinking concepts. Students will find benefit in the course, regardless of his or her major.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Seeking Faculty & Administration Support (Strategic Planning) ===

As students who seek the drive to push for innovation entrepreneurship on campus, we understand the need for support from faculty and administrators. As future fellows, we understand that in order for the successful implementation of our tactics, administrators need to see our vision. Therefore, we will soon embark on a unique strategic five-year plan that we as fellows will propose to faculty and administrators. This plan will not only include our vision in regards to innovation & entrepreneurship on campus but also tactics that we think will harness a culture of sustainable creativity.

Tactics + Milestones

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 

=== Creating Innovation and Entrepreneurial Scholars Programs ===

Our goal is to create a co-curricular program that will hopefully have curricular aspects in the long run, but this program will be focused on inciting interdisciplinary learning and understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Innovation and Entrepreneurial (I&E) Scholars Program will be open to students across all disciplines and backgrounds and teach them how innovation and entrepreneurship can not only be applied to their majors and interests, but also connect them to other students, fields of study, and perspectives. This program will have a year-long learning process, and a year-long hands-on project, and an opportunity for continued growth in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. 

'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind students of the importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

== Strategy #4: Enhance the visuals of what Innovation & Entrepreneurship are ==

=== Create Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Creating student organizations that not only teach and inspire innovation but give students the chance to take the wheel with projects that will give them hands-on experience dealing with real-life problems and allow them to solve them.  (This includes: creating small business ideas and taking the steps to create them, and identifying problems within the world and creating think tanks to attempt to solve them).

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

=== Competitions that provide Incentives for Creative Idea Making; Organizations that promote Innovative Thinking ===

Challenges built to have students compete with each other for prizes based on varying concepts from which they will develop ideas and attempt to create them and promote them. Universidad de Los Andes currently holds an expoandes and La Muestra semestral, as well as regular Innovation Challenges. The main focus would be to increase participation among the students in all majors and acquire additional faculty participation as well as an increased amount of monetary support.

Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Changing Curriculum and Course Material ===

Changing some of the course material in class to help promote innovation is key. To accomplish this, faculty that are interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship needs to be exposed to the concept of Design Thinking so they can implement course material that will use this method of problem-solving. In addition, faculty should encourage students to use the Makers Space such as Innovandes facilities and should anticipate using all the resources of the campus. Through the use of these spaces, students will organically acquire a desire to continue using skills such as Design Thinking in the future, in turn making the student body more interested and curious in innovation.

Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses.
#Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students, and teaching assistants.
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time,
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.

= '''2018 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: '''Helping the students become aware of the I&E opportunities available to them ==

=== Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes, students tend to recall one or two of the initiatives in the I&E ecosystem, but they don’t know what they do and where to access the resource. Additionally, a variety of these extracurricular clubs many times do the same things, confusing the students. By merging and organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Create Ideation spaces with the people that live in the surroundings of the university ===
Uniandes is located in what used to be a humble neighborhood with a high level of poverty. Nowadays, the region has evolved into a more secure and developed one, yet there is still an area for improvement. Proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate a positive impact on the with University’s growth. Our idea was to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartmental I&E competitions ===
At Uniandes, At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments, and creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department</div>
#<div>Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)</div>
#<div>Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them</div>
#<div>Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.</div>
#<div>Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.</div>
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=== Increase the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem ===
 At Uniandes, there are not many activities about I&E that really engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By increasing the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such an ecosystem. Additionally, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students</div>
#<div>Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)</div>
#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursuing and spinout ==

=== Bring investors from different industries to “Semana de la innovación” (Innovation week) ===
During “Semana de la innovación” in the university students present their startups and the projects they developed during the semester to other students. Unfortunately, the majority of these projects stay in an initial phase and do not transcend to become a real venture due to the lack of support and funding. We want to bring investors that could be interested in these opportunities and will offer funding and support for students to build and take forward their venture.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Generate alliances with investors of different industries</div>
#<div>Give easy access to people from outside the university to the innovation week fair</div>
#<div>Publicize the week of innovation outside of the university</div>
#<div>Talk to the different organizations dedicated to I&E in the university to get involved and help students pursue their idea. </div>

=== Have a class open for students in every faculty where students will have to go to the real world and test their startup ideas. ===
 The courses offered by the university that incorporate I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department but currently, itdoes not exist a course open for every student in the university that incorporates I&E.  The idea will be to open an elective course that helps entrepreneurs develop and test their idea in the real world. The course will be open to everyone. We think if students have some sort of orientation and support from experts there is a higher probability that the projects will succeed or at least get to the phase of pursuing or spin out.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Present the idea of a new course elective course to the directives </div>
#<div>Design the curriculum of the course with the help of the business faculty </div>
#<div>List potential teachers that could lead the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties as to whether they would be interested in the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>
 
=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===
 Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses. </div>
#<div>Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students and teacher assistants. </div>
#<div>Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time, </div>
#<div>Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.</div>

== '''Strategy #3:''' Encourage a more complete exposure to I&E initiatives (all faculties, careers, and stages of the career) ==

=== A common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities ===
Create a common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities through a cluster where all this mini-organizations are part of a coordinated cluster that can help the entrepreneurs in different stages. 
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk with all of the relevant organizations that support the I&E ecosystem in the university.  </div>
#<div>Measure the impact each of the different organizations (Empreandes, Empreandinos, WIB, Centro de Emprendimiento, Innovandes) are having to the entrepreneurs in the university acting like one. </div>
#<div>Analyze how much startups are created every year.</div>

=== National event around I&E ===
Create a national event around I&E that shows the trending innovations and most voted projects in universities'''.'''
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Evaluate the possible impact that the event could have, by measuring the number of people that attend it.</div>
#<div>Make strategic partnerships with other universities to promote the I&E culture</div>
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=== Course where all careers come together and work on a project ===
Course where all careers come together and work on a project that will teach them how to build a startup from scratch and prepare them with the tools to innovate anywhere in any occupation.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Measure the immediate impact in the students, faculty and the communities involved, after they see the course.</div>
#<div>Evaluate how the course adds value to the I&E ecosystem in the university, creating statistical data that let have great information about it.</div>

=== Inspirational talks ===

Create a series of weekly inspirational talks with key people from I&E backgrounds that will let them support the culture creation.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Define a series of topics that can be relevant to the people in the university with I&E in mind.
#Choose spaces in the talks, where people can make networking and connect with key people that will attend the events.
#Making 30 talks with experts that have been in the field of I&E, and that will let us to improve the culture and importance of it.

== Strategy #4: Enhancing the innovative spirit of the community ==

=== Course with credits (maybe an elective) where students can pursue their entrepreneurship projects ===
We thought that if we create a class where students from all careers and semesters could attend where there is a real space to create and develop in real life their startup. So in the program, each one of them earns academic credits with their startup, as long as they can prove that they are having real results.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Starting each semester or year, organize a SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas ===
In this case, the idea is to organize a semestral SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas.
 Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with the advertisement.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances with.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2017 Student Priorities: ''' =

== STRATEGY #1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME AWARE OF THE I&E OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. ==

=== Create a platform to connect student’s interests with I&E offers ===

Create a website/app that offers students I&E related resources (be it a workshop, a conference, or any other sort of event) based on their own particular preferences.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Empathize with students to understand what other services that the app could offer are important to them.
#Create a way to have students showcase their own projects within the app. This could be in the form of a gallery, or the possibility to create their own events and list them with the other I&E offers.
#Develop a database with all the different events related to I&E across campus.
#Develop the website and mobile app.  

=== Introduce students to the formal and informal initiatives involving development as an entrepreneur ===

An interactive blog, that has a printed version in the form of a magazine or catalog, that helps students track the different activities that are going on around campus. This could also be a space where the Innovator of the Month, so to speak, is presented alongside their work.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time.
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyze the formal learning of students in the classroom. Bonuses for attending specific initiatives that are related to the subject of study.
#Search the community for entrepreneurs to present in the blog before it is renowned enough that students are the ones who go in the search of the blog manager to have their work published.
#Develop the blog.


=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty I&E Summits ===
At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind studentsthe importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
A big problem for students when looking to get a grasp of Innovation and Entreprenurship is that Los Andes is quite a bureaucratic institution; this means that every particular issue needs to be taken to a particular dependency…the problem with I&E is that all the resources are not necessarily located in the same building nor even close to each other. Hence, we would like to unify I&E in a single space (be it a building or a new dependency that handles all I&E procedures, raging from providing information about events to actually carrying them out).'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Present the idea to the Entrepreneurship center, emphasizing that the building they are located in is the top choice to create the I&E hub.
#Develop a daily basis plan: after all this is a place where students know they can always find information and personal aid regarding entrepreneurial processes.
#Provide easy access to mentoring,
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking
#Create events that favor easy team building.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===
We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have littlescope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.
#Develop an active social media management.
#Create a mailbox to receive project information, feedback and opportunities from students.
#Generate alliances with managers of department newspapers and magazines.
#Develop peer to peer methodologies to encourage students to share their projects.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that havecertainaffinity with the course ===
The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:
#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.
#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.
#Provide monthly information updates on the events that will be coming up.
#Open direct communication channels with teachers.

=== Involve innovation activities with course activities ===
The university innovation dependencies provide multiple resources to develop student led innovation projects; especially those developed in the classroom. We will establish alliances with these dependencies and the courses that deal with I&E directly to develop projects hand in hand.Tactics + Milestones:
#Develop a model to have university innovation dependencies (UID) promote course projects.
#Encourage the faculty to work with UID, by emphasizing on the enormous impact that this will have on student projects.
#Share success stories on university media.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website of rewards and challenges ===
We will develop a collaborative website where students can find the I&E recent projects developed in the university, as well as projects under development. Including a "hall of fame" of the most interesting projects, as voted by their peers. Students will also be able to post further challenges and problems to be solved. Other students –and themselves– they could find teammates based on similar interests and characteristics that compliment each other.Tactics + Milestones:
#Development the online portal.
#Generate an active launch campaign on social media.
#Start promoting student’s projects to have the student community develop an interest in this new source of inspiration.
#Find resources for student’s projects.


== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== Creativity Lounge ===
We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge
#Define the look and feel of the Lounge. We are thinking tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), etc.
#Find funding with alumni and then go to the deans; they like it when students work hard to get their own sponsors before going to ask for money where they know they will get it (mainly because it is the department’s mission to foment high impacting student projects)
#Define schedules and regulators. Who is going to monitor the space?
#Define regular material providing alliances to keep the Creativity Lounge up and running nonstop.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===
We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go workin a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initiallywe will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.
#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.
#Define events that will take place inside the Makerspace. As one of our members learned in his videoconference of session 2, keeping a business makerspace up and running is not the hard part…it is getting people interested when an event is going to be held in the facility.
#Define communication channels so students have the makerspace top of mind.
#Specify potential alliances with I&E oriented courses, so students can receive some sort of bonus or extra credit in attending the Makerspace’s events.
#Specify the regulation of the Makerspace. Who is going to monitor the space? Is there going to be an expert in charge who can offer valuable input on demand?

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===
At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene
#Set up parameters, terms and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service, and might be a great hands on learning opportunity for students.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: ENHANCING THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY. ==

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===
We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.
#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,
#Create the inter-university alliance of schools that will take part in the competition. Set up a contract determining how the logistics costs will be handled.
#Set up dates and topics of each workshop.
#Develop printed out formats for the students to work on.
#Find external funding to be able to offer a hefty prize! Any sum of money, will not only be of great emotional value for the winner (since he worked hard and won) but also because money is one of the toughest things to access as a young entrepreneur, so we would be really setting the winner’s dreams in motion.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===
Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.
#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.
#Set up a specific date to have the gallery automatically reserved each semester.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live streaming of the University’s sports events ===
Sports are one of the strongest bonds that young people have among them. Specially in Latin America, where soccer is pretty much a religion for example, being able to broadcast the “fútbol” games to the rest of the community online is something that would definitely bring the community together. That said, we intend to transmit all games (not just soccer games) because we think that there is no reason to exclude others. Even if only one person watches a Chess Match’s broadcasting, we will be happy to think that we made that one extra person happy and it only took a few extra clicks programming the link to watch it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Implement a tab on the main website where the games are broadcasted.
#Conduct surveys to see which games are most people interested in.
#Fromthisit will be easier to analyze which games should we focus on broadcasting first.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2019:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juliana_Ramirez Juliana Ramirez ]

[[María_José_Hernández_Sánchez|María José Hernández]]

[[User:Pbuenahora|Pablo Buenahora]]

Fellows 2018:

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde]]

[[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[David Delgado|Daivd Delgado]]

[[Camilo Villa|Camilo Villa]]

Fellows 2017:

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro Juan Isaza]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila Buenaventura]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana Solano]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas Castro]]


[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-10-17T16:34:44Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Overview''' ==
[[File:]]Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas. It aims for academic excellence while providing rigorous critical and ethical character development, in order to enhance in all students an awareness of their social and citizenship responsibilities, as well as a firm commitment to the society. The university’s student body, in an environment of interdisciplinary and flexible integral character development, becomes the chief agent of the educational process. A highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prestigious faculty facilitates the development of an outstanding academic and professional life project that supports research, contributes to the development of the country, and transcends its geographical boundaries.
== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidaddelos Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship are highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship, and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented maker space. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big-scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.
== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on an investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.Recently the Civil and Environmental Engineering department decided to allow students that do not desire to finish their major with a formal thesis to join or continue in the research seedbed of their choice. This decision was made after student representatives made evident thenegativeimpact a mandatory thesis had on students that perhaps have different interests than their thesis advisors. Recent surveys have demonstrated that not only has the amount of investigation, therefore entrepreneurship, increased but seniors in both majors have in their job perspectives stay on campus with their projects.
== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since taking part of research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.
= We think better when we are together =
Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nevertheless, its hunger of being the best has cost a massive bad reputation on the society around itself. At the moment, the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the allegedly best university in the country just because of its coldness and relationship with the student body. Just because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being, doesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.  What has just been said is affecting the university's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "take the bullet" for our university and try to solve this social problem. The solution is pretty simple but had an immense impact if handled in the correct way:  Since we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the university and make a plan of action once we count on what people think. It doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, every constructive criticism counts and will help improve this university's prestige so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially.  With the help of those who cared to answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the fame of this university is to be cold with students and detached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in the academical excellence.  Now, what we are interested in creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and happiness overall. We plan on doing that with the help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their head, because at the end of the day, many brains think better than one, and it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.
= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing]

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

'''Fall 2019'''

[[María José Hernández Sánchez|María José Hernández Sánchez]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

[[Juliana Ramirez|Juliana Ramirez]]

[[User:Pbuenahora|Pablo Buenahora]]

'''Fall Spring 2019'''

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

'''Fall Spring 2017'''

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]] [[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]</div>

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-10-17T16:33:16Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Overview''' ==
[[File:]]Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas. It aims for academic excellence while providing rigorous critical and ethical character development, in order to enhance in all students an awareness of their social and citizenship responsibilities, as well as a firm commitment to the society. The university’s student body, in an environment of interdisciplinary and flexible integral character development, becomes the chief agent of the educational process. A highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prestigious faculty facilitates the development of an outstanding academic and professional life project that supports research, contributes to the development of the country, and transcends its geographical boundaries.
== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidaddelos Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship are highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship, and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented maker space. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big-scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.
== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on an investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.Recently the Civil and Environmental Engineering department decided to allow students that do not desire to finish their major with a formal thesis to join or continue in the research seedbed of their choice. This decision was made after student representatives made evident thenegativeimpact a mandatory thesis had on students that perhaps have different interests than their thesis advisors. Recent surveys have demonstrated that not only has the amount of investigation, therefore entrepreneurship, increased but seniors in both majors have in their job perspectives stay on campus with their projects.
== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since taking part of research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.
= We think better when we are together =
Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nevertheless, its hunger of being the best has cost a massive bad reputation on the society around itself. At the moment, the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the allegedly best university in the country just because of its coldness and relationship with the student body. Just because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being, doesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.  What has just been said is affecting the university's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "take the bullet" for our university and try to solve this social problem. The solution is pretty simple but had an immense impact if handled in the correct way:  Since we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the university and make a plan of action once we count on what people think. It doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, every constructive criticism counts and will help improve this university's prestige so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially.  With the help of those who cared to answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the fame of this university is to be cold with students and detached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in the academical excellence.  Now, what we are interested in creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and happiness overall. We plan on doing that with the help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their head, because at the end of the day, many brains think better than one, and it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.
= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing]

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

'''Fall 2019'''

[[María José Hernández Sánchez|María José Hernández Sánchez]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

[[Juliana_Ramirez|Juliana Ramirez]]

[[User:Pbuenahora|Pablo Buenahora]]

'''Fall Spring 2019'''

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]] [[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]</div>

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Pbuenahora

2019-10-16T23:17:25Z

Mj.hernandezs:

Pablo Buenahora is a passionate and curious undergraduate student who majors in Industrial Engineering with minors in both law and computer science. [[File:Pablo Buenahora.jpg|thumb]]Although he considers academics a very important aspect of his education (especially during college), he believes in the importance of complementing this with education in all different types of areas. Because of this, Pablo constantly strives to become an integral person.

In 2017, he graduated from “Los Nogales” school, where he excelled at different positions of leadership, including being the drum major from the school’s marching band and his school soccer team’s captain. He was also part of his university’s soccer team, although he decided to quit in order to dedicate more of his time to his other interests, such as coming up with ideas for startups.

He is the co-founder of “Treinta y Siete Grados”, a clothing brand based in Bogotá, Colombia which specializes in windbreakers for young adults. Although clothing isn’t his favorite area of business, he feels this experience has taught him the efforts and sacrifices needed to be done in order to have a successful entrepreneurship.

Regarding his personal life, Pablo enjoys playing soccer, watching documentaries and spending time with his friends. He also likes traveling around Colombia as he feels there is a lot for him to discover and learn about his country. This travelling has allowed him to find his passion for sustainability and renewable energy.

Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:54:16Z

Mj.hernandezs:

'''''María José Hernández Sánchez''''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another one in Development Studies at Universidad de los Andes. [[File:Mjh300.jpeg|thumb|Mjh300.jpeg]] 

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities. Since a very young age her work lead her to be the passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family; for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself,  her academic efforts has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to summarize her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes Universidad de los Andes]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes_Student_Priorities Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:52:21Z

Mj.hernandezs:

'''''María José Hernández Sánchez''''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another one in Development Studies at Universidad de los Andes. [[File:Mjh300.jpeg|thumb]] 

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:52:01Z

Mj.hernandezs:

'''''María José Hernández Sánchez''''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another one in Development Studies at Universida de los Andes. [[File:Mjh300.jpeg|thumb|Mjh300.jpeg]] 

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:51:51Z

Mj.hernandezs:

''''''María José Hernández Sánchez'''''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another one in Development Studies at Universida de los Andes. [[File:Mjh300.jpeg|thumb]] 

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes Universidad de los Andes]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes_Student_Priorities Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]

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School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-10-16T03:50:20Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Overview''' ==
[[File:]]Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas. It aims for academic excellence while providing rigorous critical and ethical character development, in order to enhance in all students an awareness of their social and citizenship responsibilities, as well as a firm commitment to the society. The university’s student body, in an environment of interdisciplinary and flexible integral character development, becomes the chief agent of the educational process. A highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prestigious faculty facilitates the development of an outstanding academic and professional life project that supports research, contributes to the development of the country, and transcends its geographical boundaries.
== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidaddelos Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship are highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship, and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented maker space. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big-scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.
== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on an investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.Recently the Civil and Environmental Engineering department decided to allow students that do not desire to finish their major with a formal thesis to join or continue in the research seedbed of their choice. This decision was made after student representatives made evident thenegativeimpact a mandatory thesis had on students that perhaps have different interests than their thesis advisors. Recent surveys have demonstrated that not only has the amount of investigation, therefore entrepreneurship, increased but seniors in both majors have in their job perspectives stay on campus with their projects.
== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since taking part of research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.
= We think better when we are together =
Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nevertheless, its hunger of being the best has cost a massive bad reputation on the society around itself. At the moment, the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the allegedly best university in the country just because of its coldness and relationship with the student body. Just because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being, doesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.  What has just been said is affecting the university's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "take the bullet" for our university and try to solve this social problem. The solution is pretty simple but had an immense impact if handled in the correct way:  Since we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the university and make a plan of action once we count on what people think. It doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, every constructive criticism counts and will help improve this university's prestige so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially.  With the help of those who cared to answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the fame of this university is to be cold with students and detached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in the academical excellence.  Now, what we are interested in creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and happiness overall. We plan on doing that with the help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their head, because at the end of the day, many brains think better than one, and it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.
= Related Links =

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Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

'''Fall 2019'''

[[María_José_Hernández_Sánchez|María José Hernández Sánchez]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Juan_Diego_Olivella_Cicero Juan Diego Olivella Cicero]

'''Fall Spring 2019'''

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]] [[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]</div>

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:49:19Z

Mj.hernandezs:

[[María_José_Hernández_Sánchez|'''María José Hernández Sánchez''']] is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [http://universityinnovation.org/Universidad%20de%20los%20Andes Universidad de los Andes][[UNIVERSIDAD_DE_LOS_ANDES|. ]] [[File:Mjh300.jpeg|thumb|Mjh300.jpeg]] 

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:48:16Z

Mj.hernandezs:

'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [http://universityinnovation.org/Universidad%20de%20los%20Andes Universidad de los Andes].  [[File:Mjh300.jpeg|thumb]] 

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes Universidad de los Andes]

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:45:32Z

Mj.hernandezs:

'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity [[File:Mjh300.jpeg]]and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [http://universityinnovation.org/Universidad%20de%20los%20Andes Universidad de los Andes].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

=== '''Email:''' mj.hernandezs@uniandes.edu.co  |  mjh.hernandez20@gmail.com ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes Universidad de los Andes]

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:44:32Z

Mj.hernandezs:

'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [http://universityinnovation.org/Universidad%20de%20los%20Andes Universidad de los Andes].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:43:24Z

Mj.hernandezs:

[[Category: |Pages_with_broken_file_links]]'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors 

in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [http://universityinnovation.org/Universidad%20de%20los%20Andes Universidad de los Andes].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:42:54Z

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in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [http://universityinnovation.org/Universidad%20de%20los%20Andes Universidad de los Andes].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:41:58Z

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in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity [[File:Mjhsnew.jpeg]]and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:37:55Z

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'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity [[File:Mjhs.jpeg]]and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:37:29Z

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'''María José Hernández Sánchez''' is a University Innovation Fellow [[File:Mjhs.jpeg]]

who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].   

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:34:21Z

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DJ Jeffries is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate student studying Communication at Southern Illinois University (SIU). His focuses include Public Relations and Organizational Communication. Jeffries is originally from Memphis, TN, where he lived until 2013 when he moved to New Orleans, LA for college at Loyola University. After exploring his love for people and his possible career paths, DJ transferred to Southern Illinois University to pursue a degree that would better prepare him for his intended career. There, he was exposed to the University Innovation Fellows. 

At Southern Illinois University, DJ is involved with the College of Liberal Arts council and the Public Relations Student Society of America. In addition, he has worked for the University both as an Undergraduate Assistant, and as a member of the school's student-run Public Relations firm. In his spare time, he offers consultance to students seeking to land full-time jobs or internships in the future.

From a very young age, DJ was interested in entrepreneurship. Growing up, he was also very heavily involved in music, learning to play seven instruments and going on to join the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national music fraternity.  In 2013, Jeffries became a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, an award funded by Bill and Melinda Gates.  Jeffries is passionate about communication, both as a discipline and as practice. This passion has led him to participate in multiple speakers' forums and public debates.  On his campus, he is interested in expanding the way students communicate across disciplines.

= Related Links =

[[Southern Illinois University]]

[[Southern Illinois University Student Priorities|Souther Illinois University Student Priorities]]

 '''University Innovation Fellows'''

Spring 2016:

[[Mara Decker|Mara Decker]]

'''Deborrius Jeffries'''

[[Trevor Jones|Trevor Jones]]

[[Asia Lee|Asia Lee]]

Fall 2015:

[[Dan Bach|Dan Bach]]

[[Thomas Birch|Thomas Birch]]

Spring 2015:

[[Alex Hutchinson|Alex Hutchinson]]

[[Brandon Nolte|Brandon Nolte]]

Spring 2013:

[[Katie Dzugan|Katie Dzugan]]

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Fellow:María José Hernández Sánchez

2019-10-16T03:31:50Z

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'''''M''aría José Hernández Sánchez''''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].  ''

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:28:17Z

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''''''M''''''''''''aría José Hernández Sánchez'''''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].  

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:27:23Z

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[[María_José_Hernández_Sánchez|'''M''']]'''[[María_José_Hernández_Sánchez|aría José Hernández Sánchez]]''' is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad de los Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].  

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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2019-10-16T03:26:17Z

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[[María_José_Hernández_Sánchez|María José Hernández Sánchez]] is a University Innovation Fellow who majors in both Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor on Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences and another in Development Studies at [[Universidad_de_los_Andes|Universidad de los Andes]].

María José, grew up in a small town in La Guajira, Colombia; where she always stood out among her high school peer for academics, leadership, sports, community work, among other activities Since a very young age her work lead her to be passionate and persistent young women she is today.

After high school she took a sabbatical year in Europe, to experience for the first-time life on her own and to face the fears leaving her home meant. Coming back with a suitcase full of fulfilled dreams she began her studies in Bogotá, Colombia, a city that she now calls home. A key factor in her life has always been the contrast between the life she´s been able to live so far away from the reality our country faces in regards of poverty, resources, and sanitation; therefore she wishes to one day be able to say her work as an engineer improved the life of at least one family, for her no one should ever take for granted something that seems so simple as a glass of clean water.

Her desire to be a more valuable member of her community has led her to be to chief of communications in the Civil and Environmental Engineering student chapter, promoting awareness on environmental issues and leading crowd funding campaigns. On the other hand, she also works hard to be a better person for herself, working hard on her academics has given her the opportunity to assist emeritus teachers in the Statics, Materials and Fluid mechanics course.

She enjoys spending time with her friends, facetiming her family, reading, travelling and playing the saxophone. When she is asked to resume her life goal, she will always say her biggest challenge is to be coherent across the board.

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= '''2019 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: Raise awareness on students about '''I&E opportunities available at campus ==

=== Organize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes students always try to find I&E opportunities and try to reach out but miserably fail when not finding anything at all, that's when they stop and the innovation never develops, not because we lack great ideas, but because we fail on knowing where to search. By organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate<span style="font-size: small; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Provide spaces where the people that live nearby the university can develop ideas ===
Uniandes's location used to be humble and with a high level of poverty, somewhat dangerous to walk around unaware. As for today, the location has evolved into a more secure place. Nevertheless, there's always room for improvement. As already said before, proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate positive impact on the with the University’s growth. Our idea is, the same as the last year's group, to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyzes the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartment I&E competitions ===
Regarding the exploition of great opportunities, we believe the last groups idea is great , so why not repeat it? At Uniandes, every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments. Creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them
#Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.
#Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.
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=== Boost the number of activities regarding the I&E ecosystem ===
Uniandes somehow fails on having many activities regarding I&E that actually engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By boosting the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such ecosystem. Plus, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 





== Strategy #2: Freshmen Leaderes ==

=== Course(maybe with credits and not mandatory) where first year students can build closer relationships and are in a smaller environment ===
We thought that if we promote an accompaiment class where students from all careers in their first semesters could attend, where there is a real space to create and develop in their startup, and their encouraged and rewarded for it, aswell as given the tools to begin with any sort of idea. So in the program, each one of them earns academic experience, time management knowledge, meet people with their same intereests, all within the classroom space.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university and directors of each major to find out whether it is plausible to implement this new class in the curriculim of each career, and if so under which conditions.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops, and general guidelines so that it can adapt for every major.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course but speciallly assiting students that stand out for more than academic performance.
#Encourage students to participate in the course, starting with the scouting event the university attends.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is to get external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value. This has the purpose to show students that most ideas are viable, and the main requirement is persistence and persevarance.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; 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;">Tactics + Milestones

#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests by inviting them to the expoandes fair.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances and funding research seedbeds focused on engaging freshmen.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2018 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: '''Helping the students become aware of the I&E opportunities available to them ==

=== Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes, students tends to recall one or two of the initiatives in the I&E ecosystem, but they don’t know what they do and where to access the resource. Additionally, a variety of these extracurricular clubs many times do the same things, confusing the students. By merging and organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Create Ideation spaces with the people that live in the surroundings of the university ===
Uniandes is located in what used to be a humble neighborhood with a high level of poverty. Nowadays, the region has evolved into a more secure and developed one, yet there is still area for improvement. Proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate positive impact on the with the University’s growth. Our idea was to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyzes the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartment I&E competitions ===
At Uniandes, At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments, and creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department</div>
#<div>Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)</div>
#<div>Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them</div>
#<div>Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.</div>
#<div>Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.</div>
<div> </div>
=== Increase the amount of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem ===
 At Uniandes, there are not many activities about I&E that really engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By increasing the amount of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such ecosystem. Additionally, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students</div>
#<div>Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)</div>
#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursue and spinout ==

=== Bring investors from different industries to “Semana de la innovación” (Innovation week) ===
During “Semana de la innovación” in the university students present their startups and the projects they developed during the semester to other students. Unfortunately the majority of these projects stay in an initial phase and do not transcend to become a real venture due to the lack of support and funding. We want to bring investors that could be interested in these opportunities and will offer funding and support for students to build and take forward their venture.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Generate alliances with investors of different industries</div>
#<div>Give easy access to people from outside the university to the innovation week fair</div>
#<div>Publicize the week of innovation outside of the university</div>
#<div>Talk to the different organizations dedicated to I&E in the university to get involved and help students pursue their idea. </div>

=== Have a class open for students in every faculty where students will have to go to the real world and test their startup ideas. ===
 The courses offered by the university  that incorporate I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department but currently it does not exist a course open for every student in the university that incorporates I&E.  The idea will be to open an elective course that helps entrepreneurs develop and test their idea in the real world. The course will be open for everyone. We think if students have some sort of orientation and support from experts there is a higher probability that the projects will succeed or at least get to the phase of pursue or spin out.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Present the idea of a new course elective course to the directives </div>
#<div>Design the curriculum of the course with the help of the business faculty </div>
#<div>List potential teachers that could lead the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties as to whether they would be interested in the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>
 
=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===
 Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses. </div>
#<div>Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students and teacher assistants. </div>
#<div>Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time, </div>
#<div>Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.</div>

== '''Strategy #3:''' Encourage a more complete exposure to I&E initiatives (all faculties, careers, and stages of the career) ==

=== Common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities ===
Create a common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities through a cluster where all this mini-organizations are part of a coordinated cluster that can help the entrepreneurs in different stages. 
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk with all of the relevant organizations that support the I&E ecosystem in the university.  </div>
#<div>Measure the impact each of the different organizations (Empreandes, Empreandinos, WIB, Centro de Emprendimiento, Innovandes) are having to the entrepreneurs in the university acting like one. </div>
#<div>Analyze how much startups are created every year.</div>

=== National event around I&E ===
Create a national event around I&E that shows the trending innovations and most voted projects in universities'''.'''
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Evaluate the possible impact that the event could have, by measuring the number of people that attend it.</div>
#<div>Make strategic partnerships with other universities to promote the I&E culture</div>
<div> </div>
=== Course where all careers come together and work on a project ===
Course where all careers come together and work on a project that will teach them how to build a startup from scratch and prepare them with the tools to innovate anywhere in any occupation.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Measure the immediate impact in the students, faculty and the communities involved, after they see the course.</div>
#<div>Evaluate how the course adds value to the I&E ecosystem in the university, creating statistical data that let have great information about it.</div>

=== Inspirational talks ===

Create a series of weekly inspirational talks with key people from I&E backgrounds that will let them support the culture creation.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Define a series of topics that can be relevant to the people in the university with I&E in mind.
#Choose spaces in the talks, where people can make networking and connect with key people that will attend the events.
#Making 30 talks with experts that have been in the field of I&E, and that will let us to improve the culture and importance of it.

== Strategy #4: Enhancing the innovative spirit of the community ==

=== Course with credits (maybe an elective) where students can pursue their entrepreneurship projects ===
We thought that if we create a class where students from all careers and semesters could attend where there is a real space to create and develop in real life their startup. So in the program, each one of them earns academic credits with their startup, as long as they can prove that they are having real results.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Starting each semester or year, organize a SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas ===
In this case, the idea is to organize a semestral SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas.
 Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with advertisement.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; 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;">Tactics + Milestones

#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances with.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2017 Student Priorities: ''' =

== STRATEGY #1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME AWARE OF THE I&E OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. ==

=== Create a platform to connect student’s interests with I&E offers ===

Create a website/app that offers students I&E related resources (be it a workshop, a conference, or any other sort of event) based on their own particular preferences.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Empathize with students to understand what other services that the app could offer are important to them.
#Create a way to have students showcase their own projects within the app. This could be in the form of a gallery, or the possibility to create their own events and list them with the other I&E offers.
#Develop a database with all the different events related to I&E across campus.
#Develop the website and mobile app.  

=== Introduce students to the formal and informal initiatives involving development as an entrepreneur ===

An interactive blog, that has a printed version in the form of a magazine or catalog, that helps students track the different activities that are going on around campus. This could also be a space where the Innovator of the Month, so to speak, is presented alongside their work.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time.
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyzes the formal learning of students in the classroom. Bonuses for attending specific initiatives that are related to the subject of study.
#Search the community for entrepreneurs to present in the blog, before it is renowned enough that students are the ones who go in the search of the blog manager to have their work published.
#Develop the blog.


=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty I&E Summits ===
At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind students the importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
A big problem for students when looking to get a grasp of Innovation and Entreprenurship is that Los Andes is quite a bureaucratic institution; this means that every particular issue needs to be taken to a particular dependency…the problem with I&E is that all the resources are not necessarily located in the same building nor even close to each other. Hence, we would like to unify I&E in a single space (be it a building or a new dependency that handles all I&E procedures, raging from providing information about events to actually carrying them out).'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Present the idea to the Entrepreneurship center, emphasizing that the building they are located in is the top choice to create the I&E hub.
#Develop a daily basis plan: after all this is a place where students know they can always find information and personal aid regarding entrepreneurial processes.
#Provide easy access to mentoring,
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking
#Create events that favor easy team building.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===
We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have little scope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.
#Develop an active social media management.
#Create a mailbox to receive project information, feedback and opportunities from students.
#Generate alliances with managers of department newspapers and magazines.
#Develop peer to peer methodologies to encourage students to share their projects.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that have certain affinity with the course ===
The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:
#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.
#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.
#Provide monthly information updates on the events that will be coming up.
#Open direct communication channels with teachers.

=== Involve innovation activities with course activities ===
The university innovation dependencies provide multiple resources to develop student led innovation projects; especially those developed in the classroom. We will establish alliances with these dependencies and the courses that deal with I&E directly to develop projects hand in hand.Tactics + Milestones:
#Develop a model to have university innovation dependencies (UID) promote course projects.
#Encourage the faculty to work with UID, by emphasizing on the enormous impact that this will have on student projects.
#Share success stories on university media.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website of rewards and challenges ===
We will develop a collaborative website where students can find the I&E recent projects developed in the university, as well as projects under development. Including a "hall of fame" of the most interesting projects, as voted by their peers. Students will also be able to post further challenges and problems to be solved. Other students –and themselves– they could find teammates based on similar interests and characteristics that compliment each other.Tactics + Milestones:
#Development the online portal.
#Generate an active launch campaign on social media.
#Start promoting student’s projects to have the student community develop an interest in this new source of inspiration.
#Find resources for student’s projects.


== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== Creativity Lounge ===
We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge
#Define the look and feel of the Lounge. We are thinking tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), etc.
#Find funding with alumni and then go to the deans; they like it when students work hard to get their own sponsors before going to ask for money where they know they will get it (mainly because it is the department’s mission to foment high impacting student projects)
#Define schedules and regulators. Who is going to monitor the space?
#Define regular material providing alliances to keep the Creativity Lounge up and running nonstop.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===
We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go work in a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initially we will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.
#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.
#Define events that will take place inside the Makerspace. As one of our members learned in his videoconference of session 2, keeping a business makerspace up and running is not the hard part…it is getting people interested when an event is going to be held in the facility.
#Define communication channels so students have the makerspace top of mind.
#Specify potential alliances with I&E oriented courses, so students can receive some sort of bonus or extra credit in attending the Makerspace’s events.
#Specify the regulation of the Makerspace. Who is going to monitor the space? Is there going to be an expert in charge who can offer valuable input on demand?

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===
At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene
#Set up parameters, terms and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service, and might be a great hands on learning opportunity for students.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: ENHANCING THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY. ==

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===
We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.
#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,
#Create the inter-university alliance of schools that will take part in the competition. Set up a contract determining how the logistics costs will be handled.
#Set up dates and topics of each workshop.
#Develop printed out formats for the students to work on.
#Find external funding to be able to offer a hefty prize! Any sum of money, will not only be of great emotional value for the winner (since he worked hard and won) but also because money is one of the toughest things to access as a young entrepreneur, so we would be really setting the winner’s dreams in motion.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===
Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.
#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.
#Set up a specific date to have the gallery automatically reserved each semester.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live streaming of the University’s sports events ===
Sports are one of the strongest bonds that young people have among them. Specially in Latin America, where soccer is pretty much a religion for example, being able to broadcast the “fútbol” games to the rest of the community online is something that would definitely bring the community together. That said, we intend to transmit all games (not just soccer games) because we think that there is no reason to exclude others. Even if only one person watches a Chess Match’s broadcasting, we will be happy to think that we made that one extra person happy and it only took a few extra clicks programming the link to watch it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Implement a tab on the main website where the games are broadcasted.
#Conduct surveys to see which games are most people interested in.
#From this it will be easier to analyze which games should we focus on broadcasting first.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2018:

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde]]

[[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[David Delgado|Daivd Delgado]]

[[Camilo Villa|Camilo Villa]]

Fellows 2017:

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro Juan Isaza]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila Buenaventura]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana Solano]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas Castro]]



[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

Priorities:Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities

2019-09-30T23:59:45Z

Mj.hernandezs:

= '''2019 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: Raise awareness on students about '''I&E opportunities available at campus ==

=== Organize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes students always try to find I&E opportunities and try to reach out but miserably fail when not finding anything at all, that's when they stop and the innovation never develops, not because we lack great ideas, but because we fail on knowing where to search. By organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate<span style="font-size: small; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Provide spaces where the people that live nearby the university can develop ideas ===
Uniandes's location used to be humble and with a high level of poverty, somewhat dangerous to walk around unaware. As for today, the location has evolved into a more secure place. Nevertheless, there's always room for improvement. As already said before, proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate positive impact on the with the University’s growth. Our idea is, the same as the last year's group, to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyzes the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartment I&E competitions ===
Regarding the exploition of great opportunities, we believe the last groups idea is great , so why not repeat it? At Uniandes, every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments. Creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them
#Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.
#Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.
<div> </div>
=== Boost the number of activities regarding the I&E ecosystem ===
Uniandes somehow fails on having many activities regarding I&E that actually engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By boosting the number of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such ecosystem. Plus, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students
#Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)
#Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. 





== Strategy #2: Freshmen Leaderes ==

=== Course(maybe with credits and not mandatory) where first year students can build closer relationships and are in a smaller environment ===
We thought that if we promote an accompaiment class where students from all careers in their first semesters could attend, where there is a real space to create and develop in their startup, and their encouraged and rewarded for it, aswell as given the tools to begin with any sort of idea. So in the program, each one of them earns academic experience, time management knowledge, meet people with their same intereests, all within the classroom space.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university and directors of each major to find out whether it is plausible to implement this new class in the curriculim of each career, and if so under which conditions.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops, and general guidelines so that it can adapt for every major.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course but speciallly assiting students that stand out for more than academic performance.
#Encourage students to participate in the course, starting with the scouting event the university attends.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value. This has the purpose to show students that most ideas are viable, and the main requirement is persistence and persevarance.
<span style="font-size: 11pt; 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;">Tactics + Milestones

#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests by inviting them to the expoandes fair.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances and funding research seedbeds focused on engaging freshmen.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.





= '''2018 Student Priorities: ''' =

== '''Strategy #1: '''Helping the students become aware of the I&E opportunities available to them ==

=== Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
At Uniandes, students tends to recall one or two of the initiatives in the I&E ecosystem, but they don’t know what they do and where to access the resource. Additionally, a variety of these extracurricular clubs many times do the same things, confusing the students. By merging and organizing these clubs, we could increase the impact of the circles and facilitate<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the location of information or support for students in terms of the I&E ecosystem.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Proposal of a restructuration of the I&E ecosystem, favoring alliances, mergers, and reorganization.
#Facilitate access to mentoring in each faculty
#I&E Uniandes with ONE website and as a unique source of information
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking

=== Create Ideation spaces with the people that live in the surroundings of the university ===
Uniandes is located in what used to be a humble neighborhood with a high level of poverty. Nowadays, the region has evolved into a more secure and developed one, yet there is still area for improvement. Proyecto Fenicia is an Uniandes initiative where the institution seeks to involve the neighborhood inhabitants in an effort to generate positive impact on the with the University’s growth. Our idea was to open and generate spaces where neighbors share their problems and students have ideation spaces to manage and solve hands-on projects with a positive impact on the Uniandes immediate surroundings, which really puts the project in the Colombian context, in the hope to help the development of great projects that can be replicated.
Tactics + Milestones:

#Present the idea of a Fenicia Ideation center to the directives and to the neighborhood community
#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time (could eventually become an alternative instead of a thesis project or of participating as a TA in an academic investigation)
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyzes the participation and learning of students in the Fenicia Ideation Space, such as credits or bonuses for solving specific problems for the community.
#Involve the Fenicia Ideation Space in courses where learning will be triggered by working with the community and where it will have a positive impact on the neighbors

=== Create interdepartment I&E competitions ===
At Uniandes, At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. Additionally, most competitions are for one or two departments, and creating interdepartment I&E competitions will allow the creation of synergies and will encourage the interchange of ideas and knowledge between students and will raise the viability of projects by questioning and challenging their assumptions.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Identification and involvement of I&E-prone teachers and courses in each department</div>
#<div>Create an inter-Disciplinary Teacher Council in order to organize and involve external groups and actors in the competition’s challenge (generate a challenge that exists in real-life)</div>
#<div>Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and offer incentives in order to engage them</div>
#<div>Facilitate the inscription of lone students who don’t know anyone in other careers by providing channels for them to meet others.</div>
#<div>Hold first competitions and then showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with I&E.</div>
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=== Increase the amount of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem ===
 At Uniandes, there are not many activities about I&E that really engage students with the participation circles, as students generally approach them with their own startups and business ideas. By increasing the amount of activities surrounding the I&E ecosystem, students will become more engaged and will learn about such ecosystem. Additionally, they will understand how it works and where to find information about the participation circles.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>With the unification and organization of the participation circles, create better communication channels for the students</div>
#<div>Interview and interact with students to understand which types of activities would attract them to participate (competitions, summits, challenges, etc.)</div>
#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursue and spinout ==

=== Bring investors from different industries to “Semana de la innovación” (Innovation week) ===
During “Semana de la innovación” in the university students present their startups and the projects they developed during the semester to other students. Unfortunately the majority of these projects stay in an initial phase and do not transcend to become a real venture due to the lack of support and funding. We want to bring investors that could be interested in these opportunities and will offer funding and support for students to build and take forward their venture.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Generate alliances with investors of different industries</div>
#<div>Give easy access to people from outside the university to the innovation week fair</div>
#<div>Publicize the week of innovation outside of the university</div>
#<div>Talk to the different organizations dedicated to I&E in the university to get involved and help students pursue their idea. </div>

=== Have a class open for students in every faculty where students will have to go to the real world and test their startup ideas. ===
 The courses offered by the university  that incorporate I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department but currently it does not exist a course open for every student in the university that incorporates I&E.  The idea will be to open an elective course that helps entrepreneurs develop and test their idea in the real world. The course will be open for everyone. We think if students have some sort of orientation and support from experts there is a higher probability that the projects will succeed or at least get to the phase of pursue or spin out.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Present the idea of a new course elective course to the directives </div>
#<div>Design the curriculum of the course with the help of the business faculty </div>
#<div>List potential teachers that could lead the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties as to whether they would be interested in the course </div>
#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>
 
=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===
 Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk to Conecta-TE to understand the process and workshops they develop to innovate in courses. </div>
#<div>Propose workshops of design thinking with teachers, students and teacher assistants. </div>
#<div>Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time, </div>
#<div>Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from innovating in their courses.</div>

== '''Strategy #3:''' Encourage a more complete exposure to I&E initiatives (all faculties, careers, and stages of the career) ==

=== Common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities ===
Create a common brand that involves all of the supporting activities and entities through a cluster where all this mini-organizations are part of a coordinated cluster that can help the entrepreneurs in different stages. 
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Talk with all of the relevant organizations that support the I&E ecosystem in the university.  </div>
#<div>Measure the impact each of the different organizations (Empreandes, Empreandinos, WIB, Centro de Emprendimiento, Innovandes) are having to the entrepreneurs in the university acting like one. </div>
#<div>Analyze how much startups are created every year.</div>

=== National event around I&E ===
Create a national event around I&E that shows the trending innovations and most voted projects in universities'''.'''
'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#<div>Evaluate the possible impact that the event could have, by measuring the number of people that attend it.</div>
#<div>Make strategic partnerships with other universities to promote the I&E culture</div>
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=== Course where all careers come together and work on a project ===
Course where all careers come together and work on a project that will teach them how to build a startup from scratch and prepare them with the tools to innovate anywhere in any occupation.
Tactics + Milestones:

#<div>Measure the immediate impact in the students, faculty and the communities involved, after they see the course.</div>
#<div>Evaluate how the course adds value to the I&E ecosystem in the university, creating statistical data that let have great information about it.</div>

=== Inspirational talks ===

Create a series of weekly inspirational talks with key people from I&E backgrounds that will let them support the culture creation.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Define a series of topics that can be relevant to the people in the university with I&E in mind.
#Choose spaces in the talks, where people can make networking and connect with key people that will attend the events.
#Making 30 talks with experts that have been in the field of I&E, and that will let us to improve the culture and importance of it.

== Strategy #4: Enhancing the innovative spirit of the community ==

=== Course with credits (maybe an elective) where students can pursue their entrepreneurship projects ===
We thought that if we create a class where students from all careers and semesters could attend where there is a real space to create and develop in real life their startup. So in the program, each one of them earns academic credits with their startup, as long as they can prove that they are having real results.
Tactics + Milestones

#Talk to the directives of the university to find out whether it is plausible to implement this kind of method to check credits from the career.
#Plan the entire course including activities, grading method, workshops.
#List potential teachers that could lead the course
#Encourage students to participate in the course.

=== Starting each semester or year, organize a SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas ===
In this case, the idea is to organize a semestral SharkTank Uniandes for each faculty where students compete and present their ideas.
 Tactics + Milestones

#Present the competition to each faculty and find out which faculties are truly interested in following and promoting the contest.
#Plan the contest and how people will be evaluated regardless of the topic of their idea.
#Look for the faculty or students that can be judges of the contest.
#Inform both students and faculty of the new competitions.
#Encourage students to participate in the competition with advertisement.

=== Strategic alliances with organizations that are external to Uniandes in order to involve people outside from Uniandes in their plans ===
 The idea is toget external organizations to get involved with Uniandes to be able to achieve plans that these external organizations seek, whether it is helping society or generating value.
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#Present the idea to external organizations and see their interests.
#Once you have the list of the organizations present these to the university and see which the university are interested in forming alliances with.
#Set an agreement on how each alliance is going to function.
#Check regularly how the alliance is going and whether both parties are still gaining something from the collaboration.

= '''2017 Student Priorities: ''' =

== STRATEGY #1: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME AWARE OF THE I&E OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO THEM. ==

=== Create a platform to connect student’s interests with I&E offers ===

Create a website/app that offers students I&E related resources (be it a workshop, a conference, or any other sort of event) based on their own particular preferences.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Empathize with students to understand what other services that the app could offer are important to them.
#Create a way to have students showcase their own projects within the app. This could be in the form of a gallery, or the possibility to create their own events and list them with the other I&E offers.
#Develop a database with all the different events related to I&E across campus.
#Develop the website and mobile app.  

=== Introduce students to the formal and informal initiatives involving development as an entrepreneur ===

An interactive blog, that has a printed version in the form of a magazine or catalog, that helps students track the different activities that are going on around campus. This could also be a space where the Innovator of the Month, so to speak, is presented alongside their work.

'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Encourage students to be a part of the initiatives in their spare time.
#Develop a system of positive incentives that can catalyzes the formal learning of students in the classroom. Bonuses for attending specific initiatives that are related to the subject of study.
#Search the community for entrepreneurs to present in the blog, before it is renowned enough that students are the ones who go in the search of the blog manager to have their work published.
#Develop the blog.


=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty I&E Summits ===
At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.
#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.
#Create an inter-Disciplinary Student Innovation Council so the weaving of I&E into curriculums can be blended into student life seamlessly. Students could hold I&E Sessions themselves, to remind students the importance of I&E so they too can help accept other departments instructing them I&E related topics.
#Ask all departments and the Dean of Students to spread the information to all students and faculty members.
#Encourage both students and faculty to try to grasp a deeper understanding of all the benefits that can be derived from using I&E.
#Showcase alumni’s work in I&E to get students from all majors motivated and in sync with entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralize all I&E opportunities and offers in the same place within the university ===
A big problem for students when looking to get a grasp of Innovation and Entreprenurship is that Los Andes is quite a bureaucratic institution; this means that every particular issue needs to be taken to a particular dependency…the problem with I&E is that all the resources are not necessarily located in the same building nor even close to each other. Hence, we would like to unify I&E in a single space (be it a building or a new dependency that handles all I&E procedures, raging from providing information about events to actually carrying them out).'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Present the idea to the Entrepreneurship center, emphasizing that the building they are located in is the top choice to create the I&E hub.
#Develop a daily basis plan: after all this is a place where students know they can always find information and personal aid regarding entrepreneurial processes.
#Provide easy access to mentoring,
#Develop activities that help provide access to networking
#Create events that favor easy team building.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===
We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have little scope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''
#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.
#Develop an active social media management.
#Create a mailbox to receive project information, feedback and opportunities from students.
#Generate alliances with managers of department newspapers and magazines.
#Develop peer to peer methodologies to encourage students to share their projects.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that have certain affinity with the course ===
The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:
#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.
#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.
#Provide monthly information updates on the events that will be coming up.
#Open direct communication channels with teachers.

=== Involve innovation activities with course activities ===
The university innovation dependencies provide multiple resources to develop student led innovation projects; especially those developed in the classroom. We will establish alliances with these dependencies and the courses that deal with I&E directly to develop projects hand in hand.Tactics + Milestones:
#Develop a model to have university innovation dependencies (UID) promote course projects.
#Encourage the faculty to work with UID, by emphasizing on the enormous impact that this will have on student projects.
#Share success stories on university media.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website of rewards and challenges ===
We will develop a collaborative website where students can find the I&E recent projects developed in the university, as well as projects under development. Including a "hall of fame" of the most interesting projects, as voted by their peers. Students will also be able to post further challenges and problems to be solved. Other students –and themselves– they could find teammates based on similar interests and characteristics that compliment each other.Tactics + Milestones:
#Development the online portal.
#Generate an active launch campaign on social media.
#Start promoting student’s projects to have the student community develop an interest in this new source of inspiration.
#Find resources for student’s projects.


== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== Creativity Lounge ===
We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge
#Define the look and feel of the Lounge. We are thinking tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), etc.
#Find funding with alumni and then go to the deans; they like it when students work hard to get their own sponsors before going to ask for money where they know they will get it (mainly because it is the department’s mission to foment high impacting student projects)
#Define schedules and regulators. Who is going to monitor the space?
#Define regular material providing alliances to keep the Creativity Lounge up and running nonstop.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===
We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go work in a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initially we will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.
#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.
#Define events that will take place inside the Makerspace. As one of our members learned in his videoconference of session 2, keeping a business makerspace up and running is not the hard part…it is getting people interested when an event is going to be held in the facility.
#Define communication channels so students have the makerspace top of mind.
#Specify potential alliances with I&E oriented courses, so students can receive some sort of bonus or extra credit in attending the Makerspace’s events.
#Specify the regulation of the Makerspace. Who is going to monitor the space? Is there going to be an expert in charge who can offer valuable input on demand?

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===
At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.
#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene
#Set up parameters, terms and conditions of the competition. This will orient participants in what is expected from their submissions.
#Launch the competition
#Forge an alliance with a particular course of the Design, Architecture, or Arts curriculum that might be interested in making the vision a reality once the winner has been chosen. This is far cheaper than hiring an external provider of the renovation service, and might be a great hands on learning opportunity for students.

== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #4: ENHANCING THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF THE COMMUNITY. ==

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===
We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.
#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,
#Create the inter-university alliance of schools that will take part in the competition. Set up a contract determining how the logistics costs will be handled.
#Set up dates and topics of each workshop.
#Develop printed out formats for the students to work on.
#Find external funding to be able to offer a hefty prize! Any sum of money, will not only be of great emotional value for the winner (since he worked hard and won) but also because money is one of the toughest things to access as a young entrepreneur, so we would be really setting the winner’s dreams in motion.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===
Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.
#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.
#Set up a specific date to have the gallery automatically reserved each semester.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live streaming of the University’s sports events ===
Sports are one of the strongest bonds that young people have among them. Specially in Latin America, where soccer is pretty much a religion for example, being able to broadcast the “fútbol” games to the rest of the community online is something that would definitely bring the community together. That said, we intend to transmit all games (not just soccer games) because we think that there is no reason to exclude others. Even if only one person watches a Chess Match’s broadcasting, we will be happy to think that we made that one extra person happy and it only took a few extra clicks programming the link to watch it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''
#Implement a tab on the main website where the games are broadcasted.
#Conduct surveys to see which games are most people interested in.
#From this it will be easier to analyze which games should we focus on broadcasting first.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2018:

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde]]

[[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[David Delgado|Daivd Delgado]]

[[Camilo Villa|Camilo Villa]]

Fellows 2017:

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro Juan Isaza]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila Buenaventura]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana Solano]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas Castro]]



[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-30T23:43:20Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Overview''' ==
Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas. It aims for academic excellence while providing rigorous critical and ethical character development, in order to enhance in all students an awareness of their social and citizenship responsibilities, as well as a firm commitment to the society. The university’s student body, in an environment of interdisciplinary and flexible integral character development, becomes the chief agent of the educational process. A highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prestigious faculty facilitates the development of an outstanding academic and professional life project that supports research, contributes to the development of the country, and transcends its geographical boundaries.
== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.In order to explore new strategies that promote student innovation and entrepreneurship we decided to expand the accompaniment course that tight now is only offered in industrial engineering. This department made this change a couple of years a go trying to make the classrooms for freshamen a more aproeachable space. Stadistics and surveys have provided sufficient data to conclude that this project is viable for the current resources available. In the future we wold love to say that all majors count with a class like this, where not only are student and senior students relationship closer but since their first months in school they are fascinated and willing to pursue any type of innovation/entrepreneurship the rest of their univesity years.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.

= We think better when we're together =
Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nevertheless, its hunger of being the best has cost a massive bad reputation on the society around itself. At the moment, the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the allegedly best university in the country just because of its coldness and relationship with the student body. Just because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being, doesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.What has just been said is affecting the univerisity's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "take the bullet" for our university and try to solve this social problematic. The solution is pretty simple but had an inmense impact if handled in the correct way:Since we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the university and make a plan of action once we count with what people think. It doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, every constructive critisism counts and will help improve this university's prestige, so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially.With the help of those who cared to answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the fame of this university is to be cold with students and deattached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in the academical excellence.Now, what we are interested on creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and happiness overall. We plan on doing that with the help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their head, because at the end of the day, many brains think better than one, and it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing]

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[Mj.hernandezs|Mj.hernandezs]]

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]] [[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

</div>

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-30T23:43:09Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Overview''' ==
Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas. It aims for academic excellence while providing rigorous critical and ethical character development, in order to enhance in all students an awareness of their social and citizenship responsibilities, as well as a firm commitment to the society. The university’s student body, in an environment of interdisciplinary and flexible integral character development, becomes the chief agent of the educational process. A highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prestigious faculty facilitates the development of an outstanding academic and professional life project that supports research, contributes to the development of the country, and transcends its geographical boundaries.
== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.In order to explore new strategies that promote student innovation and entrepreneurship we decided to expand the accompaniment course that tight now is only offered in industrial engineering. This department made this change a couple of years a go trying to make the classrooms for freshamen a more aproeachable space. Stadistics and surveys have provided sufficient data to conclude that this project is viable for the current resources available. In the future we wold love to say that all majors count with a class like this, where not only are student and senior students relationship closer but since their first months in school they are fascinated and willing to pursue any type of innovation/entrepreneurship the rest of their univesity yearsUniversidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.

= We think better when we're together =
Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nevertheless, its hunger of being the best has cost a massive bad reputation on the society around itself. At the moment, the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the allegedly best university in the country just because of its coldness and relationship with the student body. Just because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being, doesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.What has just been said is affecting the univerisity's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "take the bullet" for our university and try to solve this social problematic. The solution is pretty simple but had an inmense impact if handled in the correct way:Since we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the university and make a plan of action once we count with what people think. It doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, every constructive critisism counts and will help improve this university's prestige, so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially.With the help of those who cared to answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the fame of this university is to be cold with students and deattached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in the academical excellence.Now, what we are interested on creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and happiness overall. We plan on doing that with the help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their head, because at the end of the day, many brains think better than one, and it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGXqJSddpzt7Ekm9KFhLRH2Ub06wEQ3B29l7I0kmayU/edit?usp=sharing]

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[Mj.hernandezs|Mj.hernandezs]]

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]] [[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

</div>

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-27T02:17:10Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.Recently the Civil and Environmental engineering department decided to allow students that do not desire to finish their major with a formal thesis to join or continue in the research seedbed of their choice. This decision was made after student representaives made evident the negative impact a mandatory thesis had in students that perhaps have different interests than their thesis advisors. Recent surveys have demonstrated that not only has the amount of investigation, therefore entrepreneurship, increased but seniors in both majors have in their job perspectives stay in campus with their projects.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.<div></div>

== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective, since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since by taking parts of  research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.<div> </div>

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: 

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[Mj.hernandezs|Mj.hernandezs]]

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-27T02:15:40Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.Recently the Civil and Environmental engineering department decided to allow students that do not desire to finish their major with a formal thesis to join or continue in the research seedbed of their choice. This decision was made after student representaives made evident the negative impact a mandatory thesis had in students that perhaps have different interests than their thesis advisors. Recent surveys have demonstrated that not only has the amount of investigation, therefore entrepreneurship, increased but seniors in both majors have in their job perspectives stay in campus with their projects.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.<div>
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective, since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since by taking parts of  research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.<div> </div>

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: 

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[Mj.hernandezs|Mj.hernandezs]]

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-27T02:03:50Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.<div>
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective, since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since by taking parts of  research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.<div> </div>

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: 

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[Mj.hernandezs|Mj.hernandezs]]

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-27T01:59:49Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneur. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship.<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.<div>
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective, since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since by taking parts of  research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.<div> </div>

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: 

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[Mj.hernandezs|Mj.hernandezs]]

[[María Juliana Moya|María_Juliana_Moya]]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

[[Category:Universities]]

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Mj.hernandezs: Created page with "'''Maria Jose Hernandez'''"

'''Maria Jose Hernandez'''

School:Universidad de los Andes

2019-09-27T01:52:59Z

Mj.hernandezs:

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneur. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and Centro de emprendimiento, where certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship.<div> </div>

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Given its long-established national renown as the pioneer university in terms of R&D, it was just a matter of time before innovation and entrepreneurship ensued as a practice and became key to the faculty production at Los Andes. At the moment, investigative portfolios and academic production from the faculty members is classified in one of 5 big topics that help the nation at a macro level:
#Neuroscience
#Gender studies
#Historic environmental analysis
#Investigations for peace
#Corruption
Additionally, the University also provides teachers –not just students– with practical tools to develop their profiles as entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, many schools facilitate student-teacher contact and courses in order to work on investigation related to their careers and interests. Another example is Conécta–TE(an entrepreneurship epicenter dedicated to innovation in education and technology), which offers the course “Conecta-TE en Vacaciones”: an institutional initiative that seeks to provide the teachers of the University of Los Andes with spaces to design innovations that can be applied in their classes.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ''' ==
The Universidad de Los Andes is currently working on developing a strong Technology Transfer Office. At the moment, the university relies on the Office for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (OTTC, for its initials in Spanish) to carry out the functions of an institution with this reason of being. The OTTC currently encourages the members of the university to create patents, work with outside businesses with which the university holds alliances, and interact with non-profits and other organizations, in order to commercialize the different creations of the university’s student community’s leaders.Unfortunately, most of the students have not been exposed to its dynamics and even its purpose, mostly because not everyone is interested in using this resource. Therefore, there is a lack of information regarding its existence. It is of great importance for the University to improve the reach and the acceptance of this program within the University environment.<div>
== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ==
Many programs at Universidad de Los Andes have established strategic alliances with different key partners in the industry. These alliances have proved to be really effective, since they have paved the way for hand-in-hand work between the University and the industry. Students are also encouraged to take part in these projects since by taking parts of  research groups of their pertaining major.There are also some student-created spaces that serve the same purpose. Despega Colombia, mentioned above, is a perfect example of these partnerships since it’s a hybrid between an entrepreneurship accelerator and incentivates real-life competition. This is a prime example of how students and faculty may start weaving bonds with the industry, recognizing the mutual benefits that ensue from such collaborations.<div>
== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts''' ==
Analyzing the contact between the University and both the regional and local communities is key to understanding just how important the institution’s efforts are in kindling economic development. Many social, cultural and political issues are constantly debated by the University’s top academics and the students of the postgraduate programs. These think-tanks have proven an ample spectrum of characteristics. For example, the Industrial Engineering department has the “COPA” lab, oriented to technical problem solving, while the Politics Observatory of the Governmental Issues’ School, dedicated its time to social issues.Another relevant example is the “Progresa Fenicia” Project. The Fenicia initiative aims to revitalize the community neighboring the campus by responding to the challenge of an urban transformation and engaging students in activities that generate positive externalities on the Fenicia neighborhood inhabitants, such as revamping the local economy while bearing in mind their interests.<div> </div>

= Related Links =

Landscape Canvas 2019: 

Landscape Canvas 2017:  [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jTbLhgDSYOie-nRTjLBwzn1n1sGmyh0k7tuRm37xTBc]

Landscape Canvas 2018:  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit#gid=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M-1Egon0XX7wE3AKVUNzbUcf-FBq-rwfCHJ58AgqnOI/edit?usp=sharing]

Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities: [[Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities|Universidad de los Andes Student Priorities]]

'''Student Contributors'''

[[María Juliana Moya|'''María_Juliana_Moya''']]

[[Lina Merizalde|Lina_Merizalde]]

[[David Delgado|David_Delgado]]

[[Pedro Juan Isaza|Pedro_Juan_Isaza]]

[[Nicolas Castro Helo|Nicolas_Castro_Helo]]

[[Diana Solano|Diana_Solano]]

[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez]]

[[Category:Universities]]