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Overview
UTEC is a proposal of public education, with a technological profile, committed to the expansion of the higher education supply to the interior of Uruguay, fostering the link with the productive environment and the promotion of the country's social and cultural development.
Values:
Team work within the organization and with the National System of Public Education.
Recognition of the multiple competences of local actors that facilitate coordinated work and proximity in the interior of the country.
Academic excellence in educational processes and development of innovations.
Flexibility
Transparency and accountability to society.
Social commitment and equity in access to education.
Certified quality in processes and products.
Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship
At UTEC, there can be found many workshops focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as undergraduate courses that are focused on science and engineering, the teachers encourage their students to innovate and to have an entrepreneurial perspective when making the projects.
The main event of innovation and entrepreneurship is the Innovation Week, which takes place in the month of October and gathers companies from public and private areas joining forces alongside local high schools and their students, as well as other higher education institutions and universities, with the special collaboration of the Finnish university JAMK, working all together in order to discover new ways of innovation, bring a wide spectrum of careers together to make a project, instead of each career doing the task separately. And also, this projects will have a great impact in the community.
University-industry collaboration
One of the universities' characteristics is how it teams with local and international industries in order to approach new ways of teaching and preparing the students for a more versatile work field vision. As well as improving the industry through new perspectives that each generation of students brings. Always innovating, always improving.
UTEC in the Territory
The Regional Technological Institutes (RTIS) are the manifestation of UTEC in the territory. They are located on different cities in the country, based on the regional needs for higher education in each city. They are the centers that manage the activities in the region; in order to create a dialogue with the environment, through a strong decentralized profesional path.
Related Links
Becoming UTEC (Storytelling video link)
Spring 2017 UIFs:
Fall 2018 UIFs:
