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=Overview =
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UTEC is a proposal of public education, with a technological profile, committed to the expansion of the higher education supply to the interior of Uruguay, (the main idea was to settle or locate the University in the interior of the country); fostering the link with the productive environment and the promotion of the country's social and cultural development.
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To educate, train and coach high level professionals, entrepreneurs and innovators in order to generate, transform, transfer and articulate knowledge to promote and boost the technological, economic and social development of Uruguay.
=Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship =
At UTEC, there can be found many workshops focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as undergraduate courses that are focused on science and engineering, the teachers encourage their students to innovate and to have an entrepreneurial perspective when making the projects.
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=International Relations Unit =
The International Relations Unit promotes and maintains links with foreign institutions and organizations that strengthen academic and research activity through networks of universities, research centers and international organizations, academic exchanges and joint programs.
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The Regional Technological Institutes (RTISITRs, by its acronym in Spanish) are the manifestation of UTEC in the territory(the campus). They are located on different cities in the country, based on the regional needs for higher education in each city. They are the centers that manage the activities in the region; in order to create a dialogue with the environment, through a strong decentralized profesional path.
When UTEC was first created its main focus was to decentralize centers of higher education in the country from the capital. At the time all uruguayan students could mostly do if they wanted to pursue a college career was to move to Montevideo, and study there. This drastically changed with the arrival of UTEC. Its first institution was built in the southwest part of the country, Fray Bentos. Since then on, all RTIs ITRs built have been following the same path and have been designed to fit the communities they were built around.
After "Fray Bentos", "Durazno" (ITR- Centro Sur) was created in 2017; and then Rivera's institution (ITR - Norte) was inaugurated. Nowadays the creation of the new "Minas" center (ITR - East) is planned; UTEC is at continuing growth since its beginning. =Related Links =
[https://utec.edu.uy/es/?pa=inicio UTEC]