== Fall 2020 Priorities ==
=== Strategy #1 “IPA talks (Impulsar, Profesionalizar, Aportar)” “Innovation Week” ======== Challenge: “How can we motivate to innovate, to motivate them to pursue these opportunities to create something new, so tear down the paradigm that they can take advantage of instances of participationinnovation is only for engineers and business students?” =====
This project seeks to motivate and persuade involve every UAndes Student, since in order to commit, motivate and participate in I&E they need to be moved by this the innovation world. The mission of "IPA talks" is It shall start by motivating students from the same career to form various groups to spread those ideas determine a neglected problem that are worth spreadingis noticeable within their specific area, similar with the purpose to come up with an innovative way to TED talksmake a change or improvement to it. Knowing that the week starts on Monday, however they will be focused in this same day the Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) world. Every IPA talk will groups have to create a recognized figure related with project from scratch that solves their specific career problem. During the week experts and professors from the Department of I&E, who will share their experience (failures and success) and teaching different ways of how to implement our ideas and GET THEM DONE. Each one of these talks, will have a didactic activity (carry out several activities such as workshop simulations, brainstorming exercises, prototyping sessions, etcconstructive seminars, and many more things.), with What this does is that every student receives the purpose necessary tools to help students improve and make adjustments to apply their learning and to come up with an innovative way to make a change or improve it. This initial project shall last at least 2 days, which will be destined as a priority event at the university. During this time, students and other university participants will have a wide variety of talks arranged for them to participate. This will helps them at the same time, for every participant to have a better notion notice the importance of how I&E is being implemented in their countryinnovation and its understanding. We need this At the end of the week, the project that impresses the board with originality and most importantly the one who satisfies in other to boost the creativity best way possible the specific need of our students the school will be considered in the next year's budget so they could fulfill can implement their projects an ideas, realizing that others have achieved it. Considering that solution or improvement in order to take approximately a riskyear. Along their journey, it is necessary to they will constantly have a sufficiently strong feedback and deep motivationsupport from experts, which drives you to keep going despite failures. With that being learnedtheir professors, their faculty, the enthusiasm to undertake and innovate will increase and students will be motivated enough to truly participate and commit with the opportunities of I&E that the university has to offerUniversidad de los Andes.
=== Strategy #2 “Students´ Innovation Council UANDES” ===