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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE I&E ECOSYSTEM (2019) =

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1 - Enhancing UCU ́s communication.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After interviewing various students, we felt that there was a lack of effective communication. The courses were already created, but students were not aware of their existence. So the first step was already taken, now we want students to acknowledge the opportunities that are available to them. UCU currently sends emails in order to notify students that there is a workshop or a course, however due to the amount of activities there are, and the channel that is currently being implemented, it is not effective, and frequently sent automatically to spam.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our challenge:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do  we communicate effectively to the student community the variety of  vacant activities to develop innovation and entrepreneurial skills?<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first thing we noticed, is that there is an unused space on the university's login webpage  that can be exploited to solve our challenge. The space in question is approximately 70% of the login page to the university's servers. So the idea is the employ that area that is necessarily seen by students, to communicate the different activities. It will be organized in three different segments. Adjacent to the login interface, there will be an advertisement of the course of event of the week. Just below that, the name of the activity and a short description of what is about, will be placed. An Oxford research, shows that students are more prone to paying attention when they have a video summarizing the content of such activity. So this video, that will last 30 seconds, are going to be produced by the students of Centro Ignis. The third region is going to have a calendar, that enumerates the upcoming events, being a constant reminder of new activities. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We, fellow candidate will be responsible for designing the website, keeping it updated, encouraging alumni to pay attention to it, and make the link between the students that produce the clip and the referent of that activity.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will follow the incoming steps:

<li>Step #1: Schedule a meeting with the Dean  (Julio Techera) to ask for approval, with a referent of Centro Ignis, to ask if the project is possible (Natalia Espasandin), and with someone of IT, that manages the website.</li>

<li>Step #2:  Investigate all the courses, workshops, open sessions and competitions related to innovation and entrepreneurship.</li>

<li>Step #3: Make a team of Computer Science students to create the adjustments  to the website.</li>

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Strategy #3: Promoting research and investigation spirit in UCU

After analyzing the landscape Canvas and by doing extensive research among students, we identified that there ́s a lack of content and investigations done by the university. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, students are not motivated to do research about topics that they are interested with.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our challenge:

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can we motivate students to make their own research and the creation of content that they are interested in?  <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We came up with the idea of creating a program in the university based on the principles of a “FedEx Day”<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“FedEx Days” are used by many enterprises to bring innovation to the workspace by giving employees the possibility to have a paid day-off with the only condition of presenting something of value in the next 24 hours (as FedEx does).<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We took the concept and adapted it to our university, in order to allow students to be absent one day a month without getting the registration of their absence , with the condition of presenting a research created by them about a subject of their interest in the following week.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will follow the incoming steps:

<li>Step #1: Schedule a meeting with the Dean (Julio Fernández Techera), Vice Dean of Research and Innovation (Daniel Perciante), Centro Ithaka's Director (Magdalena Giuria), Education Department Director (Ana Laura Palombo) and Professor ́s Director (Lorena Estefanell) to ask if the program ́s realization is possible and afterwards coordinate the following steps.</li>

<li>Step #2: Structure a list of “compulsory” items that need to be part of the research.</li>

<li>Step #3: Designate a faculty member who will determinate if the research follows the correct criteria and ask the professors to delete the absence of that day.</li>

<li>Step #4: Inform the students about the possibility of participating in the program.</li>

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= STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE I&E ECOSYSTEM (2018) =

We also want to redesign the walls, creating in these areas opportunities to interact with each other.   

#A brainstorming wall, in which people can write questions, leave messages, ask for advice, etc. #A “linking board” in which people can write their name, career, what they can give others (in terms of knowledge), if they need help in a project, and a contact number. *'''Step #1:''' Talk to Magdalena Giuria, Íthaka’s director, to find out the relation between Santander Bank and the university so as to identify the person in charge of the Co-work. *'''Step #2:''' Speak with the responsible of the Co-work, show him the prototype and ask him for approval. *'''Step #3:''' Quote a price for the redesign of the co-work. *'''Step #4:''' Ask Íthaka and/or Students Affairs for financial support. Negotiate and adapt budget. *'''Step #5:''' Purchase the items and arrange them in the Co-work.

*~~'''Step #1:''' Talk to Magdalena Giuria, Íthaka’s director, to find out the relation between Santander Bank and the university so as to identify the person in charge of the Co-work.~~*'''Step #2:''' Speak with the responsible of the Co-work, show him the prototype and ask him for approval.*'''Step #3:''' Quote a price for the redesign of the co-work.*'''Step #4:''' Ask Íthaka and/or Students Affairs for financial support. Negotiate and adapt budget.*'''Step #5:''' Purchase the items and arrange them in the Co-work.*'''Step #6: '''Come up with ideas for the promotion of the new space.

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