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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b9b9-0680-75de-8012ae1ecec6"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of [http://www.initium.uy/ Initium]</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities. For example, this year was created Agents of Change, a group of students interested in innovation and entrepenuership, they meet every week with the help pf Romina Dominzain, former Fellow and part of Initium, to learn about Design Thinking, Life Design, communication and multiple skills valued in the area.</span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, the University has tried to increase the number of professors with and entrepreneurship background. As example of this, we have the coordinator of the Business Management degree. Her name is Maria Passadore, former worker of Endeavour and co-creator with Josefina Maisonnave, Initium Director, of “Pura”. This business is dedicated to the management of boutique hotels of less than 25 rooms. She, has been also working on providing students with useful skills for their future, that is why she has introduced new courses, such as Improvisation Workshops.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, new classrooms have been equipped with moving furniture and prototyping materials in order to create an evironment which promotes innovation.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last but not least, this year a new departement of Campus Life was created, they manage sports, extra curricular activities, volunteering and every aspect of our lives inside the University. Even though it is very new, it has accomplished many things already such as the creation of new clubs, the Laboral week which consists on a week full of events hosted by companies to better ourselves in the work environment and learn skills for our futures.</span>
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<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5913abf2-2337-c880-26f4-b2ae493d50f8"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Z-room at Engineer Building</span></span></span>
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