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== Overview Campus==The Universidad de los Andes is has a non52-profit catholic university hectare campus which is located in Santiago at the bottom of the Cordillera de Chilelos Andes. It was founded on September 8thLarge green areas coexist with spaces for teaching and research, including sports and recreation, culture, 1989 by and spiritual assistance. The campus infrastructure and layout aim to promote a group of academic professionals serene study environment and outstanding businessmen. It follows the actual Chilean Higher Education Legislation not only in the way they function but also in the way they teacha natural setting conducive to intellectual creativity.  The university's original purpose wascampus features nine buildings: “to elaborate an organic Central, Humanities, Sciences, Library, El Reloj, Mecano, Engineering, ESE Business School, and universal synthesis of the human culture, that integrates complex formed by the dispersion of Center for Biomedical Research and Innovation and the specialties Teaching and Simulation Unit (CiiB-UDS), in addition to the radical unity Engineering Research Center and UANDES Lab, totaling over 76,000 square meters of the truthconstructed space. These buildings house classrooms, laboratories, a library, offices, meeting rooms, as well as auditoriums, two grand lecture halls, an honor hall, enlightened and invigorated by the Catholic faith”. Universidad de los Andes´ main purposes are:* Academic Training* Research and Innovation* Outreach and Relationship with Societyan amphitheater == Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==Universidad de los Los Andes is distinguished as the most innovative higher education institution in Chile. Moreover, it has been recognized with several awards for this accomplishment three years in a row. Neverthelesscourses, the programs and tedtalks about innovation and entrepreneurship concept . Courses like Design Thinking, Space creating, Laboratories of innovation, Entrepreneurship growth, among others. There are different activities that promote I&E in "Uandes". One of them is mostly promoted and transmitted for academics than for the students. Even though the institution developed a competition that takes part every year, called “The Challengers”. During this contest, students from businessBusiness, service administrationService Management, engineeringEngineering, and high school students, create different projects and present them in front of a jury. The winners get a finance fund in order to start their prototype project and an all-paid trip to an international destination.  The University also has programs like “Cantera Uandes” and “Incubadora Uandes”(incubator) that promote Social Innovation creating new social projects. At the same time, there is the “Dirección de Innovación UANDES” (Innovation Center) which is the head of I&E at the institution, where you can get assessment and funding for your ideas and projects.Another activity promoting I&E for students Students from different careers create theme days like "UANDES Innovation Day, from Service Management Faculty. Innovation and Entrepreneurship is the incentive to start working on their final thesis since junior yearalso aplied in volunteer activities in Uandes.  The course of Speech therapy, for instance, has established this strategyinnovative mindset grows exponentially throughout the university and gains more and more followers. == Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==Today at Universidad de los Andes there are two powerful organisms with the function of promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.  In the first place, there is the “Centro de Innovación Docente” (“Faculty Innovation Center”), which provides financing and support to teachers that have a project in mind, so they can develop it. As there is this support for teachers , they are the ones who participate and live mostly I&E activities at the University. For this reason, these two topics are more promoted around faculty members than students.  On the other hand, there is the CIIB (Centro en Innovación e Inteligencia Biomédica) (“Biomedical intelligence and Innovation Center”) where students can carry out projects if they’re coursing a science or health degree. Although students have developed great social projects at the University, these are aimed at helping people rather than innovation itself. Therefore there are projects , the university is offering an Innovation Minor, experiential and theory courses of I&E in different careers like Business, Engineering, Nursing, and students with the ability to create but not necessarily from innovation or entrepreneurshipService Management (ADS school).  The University also has the first place in Chilean innovation, but this award has been allocated to the university as an institution. So this means the university by itself is innovative, but not necessarily its students.  == Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==The technological transfer is defined as a concept where “Research transforms money into knowledge … technology transfer transforms knowledge into money.” (Geoffrey Nicholson, father of the Post-It).” https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/technology-transfer/what-technology-transfer_en Universidad de los Andes encourages this technical support only to those who have engineering Engineering and business Business courses (lab, external projects, etc). Those who are not focused on these particular studies do not receive this support. However, they tend to always keep up to date with their technology to promote and enhance even more each student's knowledge. Furthermore, Universidad de los Andes has reached out to different colleges around the world and has, throughout the years, developed partnerships that embrace innovation on campus. To name a few we have from Belgium, Australia, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and many more. Moreover, in 2024 the "Open Lab" project was inaugurated. This project aims to significantly increase institutional capacities to develop and manage research and innovation through an integral model that allows addressing the challenges of the social, economic, and productive environment from the link with society and its territorial environment. Develop a strategy that integrates different actions to integrate the university in the model of public engagement with research (Universidad de los Andes, 2024).== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==UANDES Universidad de Los Andes promotes an innovative ecosystem through external relations. Nevertheless, students do not have any knowledge of it, nor exploit the opportunity they may provide in order to enhance I&E in the campus. One example of it is the huge number of international relations the institution has to establish innovative alliances. The upper named universities are the ones, which UANDES has as partners. For instance, Stanford University and their UIF ProgrammProgram. This chance was offered by  Innovation Direction, a department in Uandes, engages students and faculty mentorI&E ideas and helps them grow and contact mentoring programs, however, students do not have a direct link nor acquaintance of these alliancessource founding and other help necessary to go to market. == Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==In order to engage with regional and local economic development, Universidad de los Andes promotes the following initiatives.  In the first place, the institution is part of the FDI (Fondo de Desarrollo Institucional) “National Fund for Institutional Development”, a government's initiative that offers to fund different projects that create faculty members and higher education students in the country.  At the same time, the university has a department called Vida Universitaria (University´s Life), where you can get funding for your projects, but only if they are willing to support the ideaand encourage participating in Startup Chile.  The university also has funding resources related to external and internal support from “Centro de Investigación UANDES” (Research Center). ==More information== *https://www.uandes.cl/ *https://www.instagram.com/uandes/?hl=es-la *https://www.instagram.com/uandes_internacional/ ==Related Link=====Student Priorities===[[Priorities:Universidad_de_los_Andes_Chile_Student_Priorities|Universidad de los Andes, Chile Student Priorities]]===Fellows 2020=== *[[Fellow:Carolina_Orueta|Carolina Orueta]]*[[Fellow:Constanza_Orellana|Constanza Orellana]]*[[Fellow:Fiorella_María_Bacigalupo_Cruz|Fiorella Bacigalupo]]*[[Fellow:Victoria_Rozas|Victoria Rozas]] ===Fellows 2021=== *[[Fellow:Dominga Mandiola Barriga]]*[[Fellow:Florencia Ramirez]]*[[Fellow:Magdalena Arraztoa]]*[[Fellow:Azul Lizana Cousiño]] ===Fellows 2022=== *[[Fellow:Bernardita Arze]]*[[Fellow:Isabel Contreras Alvial]]*[[Fellow:Isidora Larraguibel Henseleit]]*[[Fellow:Josefina Cortés Arriagada]] ===Fellows 2023=== *[[Fellow:Laura Luchsinger]] *[[Fellow:María Belén Zuñiga]]*[[Fellow:María Trinidad Lira]]*[[Fellow:Sofía Cárdenas]]

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