== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">When a student has an idea and wants to pursue it, it is extremely important to have the university support and guidance. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">This is the reason why IthaKa, our I&E center was created. Before this, our university had two different establishments for entrepreneurship: Nexo, offering a pre-incubator service, and CII ( the Center for Innovation and Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and Technologies). Recently, they associated and formed a new center called Ithaka, which principal aim is to incubate students´ ideas and materialize them. The main mission of this center is to bring our university community closer to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, promote innovation and creativity for the development of ventures that contribute to the development of a more prosperous, fair and humane society.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">In fact, Ithaka has already created entrepreneurs and innovators. For instance, Marcelo Ciaspessoni, a Business Management student of UCU, together with íthaka's help and support founded a successful enterprise called ViajerosUy; this is a tourist agency especialized in adventure activities in Uruguay. </span></p> <span style="font-size:medium;">
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