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<p style="text-align: justify">UTEC is the Technological University of Uruguay, is the Uruguayan public university of higher technological education, recognized nationally and internationally for its commitment to the continuous improvement of quality, equal opportunities, and the innovative capacity of its educational and applied research offering, with people with a profile in innovation and entrepreneurship. Also making an economic development at the local, national and international level, through collaborations with national and international institutions from the scientific world, from companies from the public and the private sector and the community.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Currently, UTEC has three Institutes throughout the country, bringing higher education to the rural areas, thus making equalizing the opportunities of the countryside and the capital, place where have been residing all the universities of the country until now.</p> | <p style="text-align: justify">UTEC is the Technological University of Uruguay, is the Uruguayan public university of higher technological education, recognized nationally and internationally for its commitment to the continuous improvement of quality, equal opportunities, and the innovative capacity of its educational and applied research offering, with people with a profile in innovation and entrepreneurship. Also making an economic development at the local, national and international level, through collaborations with national and international institutions from the scientific world, from companies from the public and the private sector and the community.</p><p style="text-align: justify">Currently, UTEC has three Institutes throughout the country, bringing higher education to the rural areas, thus making equalizing the opportunities of the countryside and the capital, place where have been residing all the universities of the country until now.</p> | ||
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Overview
UTEC is the Technological University of Uruguay, is the Uruguayan public university of higher technological education, recognized nationally and internationally for its commitment to the continuous improvement of quality, equal opportunities, and the innovative capacity of its educational and applied research offering, with people with a profile in innovation and entrepreneurship. Also making an economic development at the local, national and international level, through collaborations with national and international institutions from the scientific world, from companies from the public and the private sector and the community.
Currently, UTEC has three Institutes throughout the country, bringing higher education to the rural areas, thus making equalizing the opportunities of the countryside and the capital, place where have been residing all the universities of the country until now.
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 in science and engineering, the teachers encourage their students to innovate and to have an entrepreneurial perspective when doing the projects.
The principal event of innovation and entrepreneurship is the Innovation Week, that has place in the month of October and gathers companies from public and private sector joining forces alongside local high schools and their students, as well as other higher education institutions and universities, and the special collaboration of the Finnish university JAMK, working all together in order to know new ways of innovation, bring a wide spectrum of careers together to make a project and how far can they go together, instead of each career doing the task separately. And also, this projects have a great impact in the community.
University-industry collaboration
One of the characteristics of the university is how it works conjunctively 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 brings each generation of students. Always innovating, always improving.
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