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<br/><span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; 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 Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to d<span style="font-size:medium;">evelop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between stu</span>dents, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.</span></span>
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== '''<span style="font-size: x-large;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2019)</span>'''''' ''' <br/> ==
=== '''<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Strategy One: UMornings: Empowering students</span></span> ===
<span style="font-size:medium;">After researching and understanding students in our university we were not surprised to find out they feel demotivated and reluctant to get involved in most activities, including the ones that have to do with their education.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #3: '''Talk to the entrepreneurs in order to sell them the idea. Nicolás would handle this task.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #4: '''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)black; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre, sans-wrapserif;">Start the marketing and communication strategy to attract people. Mauricio and Florencia would handle this task.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Step #5: '''Launch the first UMorning Event.</span>
'''<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Two: Customizing Faculty Info</span>'''
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''Step #3: '''Teach the new system to the people in charge of spreading the information making sure they understand this will in no way replace their jobs, only make them easier. Édina would handle this task<br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''Step #4: '''Implement the system</span></div>
=== <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Let's Take Recycling Seriously</span></span> ===
<span style="font-size:medium;">After LOOP, Semana de la Innovación, in which we brought to the University a social project called “Resuena”, everybody got aware of a problem no one had realized before. Aiming to spread a 360° message of sustainability, LOOP allied with that key partner to foster a never seen environmental awareness program on it’s participants and staff. As previously stated, Montevideo as a whole, is facing a deep problem related to the limited capacity of trash dumps.<br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">With the goal in mind to generate change, Resuena put 10 recycle bin stations with their corresponding banners along the building to classify the trash in three simple categories:</span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">Mixed trash</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Even though 3 categories is not quite enough to make a correct classification of the trash, it’s a great beginning for a country with a poor, but slowly increasing culture of recycling. Nevertheless, it was utterly surprising how people, participants and authorities reacted positively to this initiative.<br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">We think that environmental awareness is a vital matter and, as agents of change, it’s part of our duty to lead by example and get our peers into those small habits that create a better world for all of us every day. Thus, knowing that this action is likely to be well accepted by all students and it’s potential to open a wide new range of innovative ideas, our proposal is to make a win-win alliance with Resuena in the short run.<br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''#Step1: '''Arrange a meeting with Antonio Carvalho, the leader of Resuena and manager of a local high school. Florencia would handle this task.<br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step2: '''Find people who can pick up the recyclable stuff and contact them. Nicolás would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step3: '''Use Antonio’s guidance to understand the potential recycling hotspots along schools. Rodrigo would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step4: '''Elaborate a complete budget with the cost of implementation of both, recycling stations and teaching banners. Also, start our compost with help of Lombriz urbana. Édina would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step5: '''Present a campaign and workshop to instruct interested students, staff and authorities. Making people feel into this change will definitely make it last. Mauricio and Emanuel would handle this task.<</span>>
=== <span style="font-size: large;">Strategy Four: Transform The Canteen Into a Collaborative Space</span> ===
<span style="font-size:medium;">Universidad de Montevideo faces an intrinsic problem when it comes to space. Our findings revealed that there is not enough space in general. Classrooms are crowded, open public spaces are not enough, the canteen is small and not practical and, most importantly, there is no space to work on projects. Moreover, we got to know the real possibilities regarding budget. Reality is, our University does not have the funding to involve itself in a bigger project. More research into the causes of the problem made us realize what we could tackle effectively was the way spaces were being used. We then decided that, in order to foster the I&E culture, we could reorganize and rethink already existent places.<br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">We believe that collaboration between both, random people and peers, does have a deep impact in people’s sense of community. According to our findings, many people don’t use their schoolspaces to study or interact because, due to several reasons, they don’t find on it what they need. <br/></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">These are some of the insights we found as well as some of the ideas we came up with during our design thinking process:<br/></span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">Foster shared places like the Ping Pong and mini-soccer areas.<br/></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">To have long tables at the canteen and the patio to make students seat together and promote interaction.<br/></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">The need for a space of Co-work (considering the evident lack of space we are facing).<br/></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">People want more multidisciplinary interaction through taking subjects of other areas of knowledge.<br/></span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">The canteen stays behind the high level of service in every school.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">After a long and challenging process of understanding not obvious relationships between people’s insights (interest of knowing new people and working with them) and the possibilities of a short of space institution, we ended up in a simple but different solution.<br/span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small four-people tables instead of bigger furniture?</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Why does UM canteens have small fourIntegrating both, people's interests and the way we would like our canteen display be like, we redesigned the space to be more collaborative and teamwork-people friendly through acquisitions of longer tables instead of bigger furniture?<br/>.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Integrating bothRedesigned in this way, it is a new opportunity to create a space for people's interests to spend their free time as well as work in big teams or even interact with random students seated close to them. We think that, with a little investment, and the way we would like our canteen display be likeno bigger space requirements, we redesigned the space this is a simple but perfect solution to be more foster a sense of unity amongst students. And so, sooner than later, will generate an I&E-friendly place and a collaborative mindset, both powered by a change on the display and teamwork-friendly through acquisitions of longer tablesa few other details.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size:medium;">'''#Step1Step2:''' Re-emphasize with users. Have a deeper understanding of Understand the space needs along capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until we find out the dayright one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option). Florencia Rodrigo would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step2Step3: '''Understand Estimate a budget to make the space capacities prototyping as much displays as possible until acquisitions we find found out the right one (drawing with chalk in the floor is a great and cheap option)on previous step. Rodrigo Édina would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step3Step4: '''Estimate Find a budget temporary place to make storage the acquisitions old furniture until we found out on previous stepcan sell it. Édina Unless the university wants to keep it or do anything else. Nicolás would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
<span style="font-size:medium;"'''#Step4Step5: '''Find a temporary place Present the project to storage the old furniture until we can sell it. Unless potential sponsors to make the university wants to keep it or do anything elseeconomic effort easier. Nicolás Emanuel would handle this task.<br/><</span>>
'''<span style="font-size:mediumx-large;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2018)</span>'''#Step5: '''Present the project to potential sponsors to make the economic effort easier. Emanuel would handle this task.<</span>div>
=== <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy One: Recycle a room into a Makerspace called i-room</span> ===