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== Overview ==
Universidad de los Andes (, also known as UANDES) , is a non-profit catholic university located in Santiago de Chile. It was founded on September 8th, 1989 by a group of academic professionals and outstanding businessmen. It follows the actual Chilean Higher Education Legislation not only in the way they function but also in the way they teach.
The university's original purpose was: “to elaborate an organic and universal synthesis of the human culture, that integrates the dispersion of the specialties in the radical unity of the truth, enlightened and invigorated by the Catholic faith”.
* Research and Innovation
* Outreach and Relationship with Society
== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==
Universidad de los Andes is distinguished as the most innovative higher education institution in Chile. Moreover, it has been recognized with several awards for this accomplishment four years in a row. Nevertheless, the innovation and entrepreneurship concept is mostly promoted and transmitted by academics than the students. Even though the institution developed a competition that takes part every year, called “The Challengers”. During this contest, students from business, service management, engineering, 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. 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.