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#<div>Begin communicating with all the faculties and start organizing and offering spaces and activities about I&E more frequently. </div>

== '''Strategy #2: '''Help student's projects pass from experiment and discover stages into pursue and spinout ==

#<div>Conduct surveys to students of different faculties to know the amount of students that currently have a startup or are in the process of developing one. </div>

=== Create design thinking workshops that involve students in innovating courses in order to really address their needs and tastes ===

Currently the university is working on reforming some of the courses including innovative forms of education and training teachers in innovation in education. Although this effort has been helpful and successful in some courses,  it is common that the ideas teachers have and think will improve the course are not attractive for students. We think it is different when adults ideate for students than when the students are involved in the process of innovation. By creating spaces in which teachers and students can work and think together in innovative solutions and changes for the courses, the needs and tastes of students will be really address and the changes in the courses could be more successful.

#Develop the blog.

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=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty I&E Summits ===

<span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Los Andes, virtually every course that incorporates I&E into the formal learning curriculum is either of the Business, Design or Engineering department. We wish to tackle this problem by creating teacher-led “I&E Summits”, where the teachers can share their experience to point other teachers from other departments/schools in the right direction to adequate I&E into their curriculums. </span>'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#“First Steps into I&E” Guides created by the Business Design and Engineering departments.

#Develop I&E handbooks, providing clear instructions and key pointers to incorporate I&E into the classroom.

#Create events that favor easy team building.

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== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #2: AUGMENTING THE PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN I&E EVENTS. ==

=== Develop better communication channels, adjusted to the demographics ===

We believe that many students do not participate in I&E-related events because they are not aware of the existence of many of these activities and the benefits that students might derive from them. By adjusting the communication channels –which at the time have proven to be ineffective and to have little scope– students might come into contact with most of these events first-handedly. We will achieve this by leaving behind traditional and outdated methods of communication (like written notices and printed out info on bulletin boards), and switch to targeted advertisements on social networks, and catered messages.'''Tactics + Milestones:'''

#Involve students of all departments, not just those familiar with I&E events, workshops and tools.

=== Have teachers provide 5 minutes of class time to promote events that have certain affinity with the course ===

The main objective is to involve teachers in I&E projects, to try and give them an active role in innovation. We will send them the information of the I&E events related with the course topics and have them to encourage students to participate in those events.Tactics + Milestones:

#Create a plan to involve students of many departments.

#Instruct teachers in how they would be making an impact by playing an active role in I&E.

#Find resources for student’s projects.

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== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGY #3: IMPLEMENTING A SPACE THAT FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING CREATIVITY ==

=== <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity Lounge ===

We will develop the first ever “Creativity Lounge”: this is a space where students –and teachers! – can give a better use to their free time by investing it in practicing old hobbies, learning new skills, playing challenging brain games or perfecting a handcraft, that might add to what they learn in the classroom. Who said Chemistry students cannot complement their formal studies by learning how to cook? What about aspiring Doctors and knitting for fine motor skills? We bet engineers could use some dynamic problem solving challenges!'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#Find the room to implement the Creativity Lounge

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adequately equipped Makerspaces ===

<span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will inaugurate a new space in our University with inspiring and work inducing decoration, where people can go work in a particular area of interest. We will eventually be running a business, engineering and design makerspace at the University, but initially we will have to pick one and build on from there. Our first choice is the Business makerspace given that it doe not require any heavy machinery (as is the case of the engineering makerspace) nor does it require a constant replenishing of expensive materials (like it usually happens in design makerspaces). A business makerspace, in terms of equipment alone, does not require more than a few large sheets of paper with Business Model Canvases printed on them. '''Tactics + Milestones'''

#Define the look and feel of the Makerspace. Tall tables and stools, erasable surfaces on tables and walls, colorful ambiance, puffs, a lego station (even with a lego wall), materials for rapid prototyping, etc.

#Find the space where the first Makerspace will be implemented.

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renovate current work spaces to enhance productivity and innovation. ===

<span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the moment, there are multiple spaces at the University that are presented to be some sort of innovation hubs. Nonetheless, these creative spaces are not in mint conditions, so we would like to open a competition among the students, to see who can come up with the best, most viable and practical renovations for these spaces! The idea is to give the students a voice in how they want their spaces to look like, to ensure that they will indeed be coming to the space and taking the best advantage out of it.'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#These workspaces should be spots on campus where you can go if you have an idea but you don´t know how to start pursuing it.

#Define which spaces are in desperate need to be renovated, and which of those can we actually intervene

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurship competitions among the different universities. ===

<span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We intend to establish an annual entrepreneurship competition among the top universities in the region, given that they want to join the alliance. This is key to ensure that the universities will be endorsing on, two, or a few teams, which further means that the students have someone to cheer for, someone with whom they have some things in common (even though they might not know each other, they will both be students at the same institution).~~''' '''~~'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#The Make-a-thon format could be really interesting to foment school spirit, because the resulting product (tangible, observable) is something other students can wrap their heads around even if they are ignorant on the matter, thus enhancing the backing of the participant and the school spirit.

#Design thinking workshops that give the participants the tools to further develop their initial projects,

=== <span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UniAndes Entrepreneur/Leader Showcasing ===

<span style="font-size: 19pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each semester, the main gallery at Universidad de lo Andes, should do a profile on the entrepreneur or leader of the semester and his work. This exhibition could help the student get funding, plus it would be quite an honor to be selected to set up this exhibition.'''Tactics + Milestones'''

#Determine what criteria will be employed to evaluate the different entrepreneurs and leaders.

#Get in touch with local news and press agencies to increase the reach and the visibility of the exhibition.

= Related Links =

Fellows 2018: [[Lina Merizalde|Lina Merizalde~~Fellows 2018~~]] [[María Juliana Moya|Maria Juliana Moya]]

[[~~Lina_Merizalde~~David Delgado|~~Lina Merizalde~~Daivd Delgado]]

[[~~María_Juliana_Moya~~Camilo Villa|<~~span style~~font size="~~font-size:xx-large;~~3"~~><span~~>~~~~Camilo Villa</~~span>Maria Juliana Moya</span~~>]]

~~[[David_Delgado|~~~~Daivd Delgado~~Fellows 2017:]]

[[~~Camilo_Villa~~Pedro Juan Isaza|~~~~~~Camilo Villa~~Pedro Juan Isaza</span~~></font~~>]]

~~~~[[Camila Buenaventura Marquez|~~Fellows 2017:~~Camila Buenaventura]]

[[~~Pedro_Juan_Isaza~~Diana Solano|~~Pedro Juan Isaza~~Diana Solano]]

[[~~Camila_Buenaventura_Marquez~~Nicolas Castro Helo|~~Camila Buenaventura~~Nicolas Castro]]

[[Diana_Solano|Diana Solano]]

~~[[Nicolas_Castro_Helo|Nicolas Castro]]~~

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