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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-40ef68fe-7fff-81af-3506-62f9f516a9c1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''''Universidad Católica del Uruguay''''' believes that innovation and entrepreneurship are of huge importance and, therefore, has various different ways to promote its students to engage in this area. Not only are there courses that indirectly provoke students to feel intrigued and widen their knowledge in this area, but UCU also provides courses, clubs and workshops that facilitate this learning process. Some faculties offer a wider variety of these activities than others but all students, no matter their major, have the possibility to innovate and become an entrepreneur if they desire so. Particularly, </span>''<span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ÍthaKa</span>''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Innovation and Entrepreneurship centre), OPITI and Students Affairs are responsible for promoting, mentoring and supporting the students with their ideas and projects. For instance, ÍthaKa centre organized the three-day-long engagement called “Innovatón” in Punta Del Este, where attendees learned the well-known Design Thinking process.</span></span></p><div></div> | <p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-40ef68fe-7fff-81af-3506-62f9f516a9c1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''''Universidad Católica del Uruguay''''' believes that innovation and entrepreneurship are of huge importance and, therefore, has various different ways to promote its students to engage in this area. Not only are there courses that indirectly provoke students to feel intrigued and widen their knowledge in this area, but UCU also provides courses, clubs and workshops that facilitate this learning process. Some faculties offer a wider variety of these activities than others but all students, no matter their major, have the possibility to innovate and become an entrepreneur if they desire so. Particularly, </span>''<span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ÍthaKa</span>''<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Innovation and Entrepreneurship centre), OPITI and Students Affairs are responsible for promoting, mentoring and supporting the students with their ideas and projects. For instance, ÍthaKa centre organized the three-day-long engagement called “Innovatón” in Punta Del Este, where attendees learned the well-known Design Thinking process.</span></span></p><div></div> | ||
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| − | <span | + | <span style="font-size: smaller;">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> |
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Revision as of 02:12, 28 September 2018
Contents
Overview
Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU) was initially founded in 1882 by the first Archbishop of Montevideo, Mons. Mariano Soler. In 1985, it was reopened and entrusted to the Compañia de Jesus making Universidad Católica del Uruguay, the first main work of the Catholic Church in the field of higher education in Uruguay. It is the private’s first and oldest university in the country and most geographically widespread.
- Faculty of Business Science
- Faculty of Human Science
- Faculty of Law School
- Faculty of Nursing and Health Technologies
- Faculty of Engineering and Technologies
- Faculty of Odontology
- Faculty of Psychology
Promoting student innovation entrepreneurship
Universidad Católica del Uruguay believes that innovation and entrepreneurship are of huge importance and, therefore, has various different ways to promote its students to engage in this area. Not only are there courses that indirectly provoke students to feel intrigued and widen their knowledge in this area, but UCU also provides courses, clubs and workshops that facilitate this learning process. Some faculties offer a wider variety of these activities than others but all students, no matter their major, have the possibility to innovate and become an entrepreneur if they desire so. Particularly, ÍthaKa(Innovation and Entrepreneurship centre), OPITI and Students Affairs are responsible for promoting, mentoring and supporting the students with their ideas and projects. For instance, ÍthaKa centre organized the three-day-long engagement called “Innovatón” in Punta Del Este, where attendees learned the well-known Design Thinking process.
Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:
== When a student has an idea and wants to pursue it, it is extremely important to have the university support and guidance.
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.
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.
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University - Industry Collaboration
The UCU is facilitating their relation to the industry through NEXO, National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and the Cowork Santander. The Entrepreneur Development Center (NEXO) and The Center for Innovation and Engineering (CII) are where ideas materialize. As in the section Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurs, the students, graduates or postgraduates are guided and supported to develop their business ideas and start up. They foster the innovation and encourages the creation of vigorous companies centered in products or services.They help students with the first phase so as to present the prototype to National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and to ANDE to finance it. ANDE is the acronym in spanish for the National Development Agency. Their purpose is to contribute in the economic development in Uruguay through efficient and transparent programs, with special emphasis on the promotion of micro, small and medium businesses. ANDE and ANII are important instruments in funding and UCU is assisting and helping students to acquire those fundings. Moreover NEXO also has various funds to gain seed capital to advance the idea into a reality.
Also, the university has partnerships with distinctive industries and businesses. Depending on the career, there are internships to help the students face reality, know how to interact with the work environment and assess their career.
Regional and Local Economic Development
Uruguayan government is helping the startup industry flourish by implementing these institutions National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and National Development Agency (ANDE). Enhancing this, the Co work spaces and the special Centers dedicated in supporting students, postgraduates and graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit are an important base in the progress of the realization of ideas.
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