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==Overview==
Universidad de los Andes, also known as UANDES, is a non-profit catholic university University located in Santiago de Chile. It was founded on September 8th, 1989 by a group of academic professionals and outstanding businessman. 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”.
The campus features nine buildings: Central, Humanities, Sciences, Library, El Reloj, Mecano, Engineering, ESE Business School, and the complex formed by the Center for Biomedical Research and Innovation and the Teaching and Simulation Unit (CiiB-UDS), in addition to the Engineering Research Center and UANDES Lab, totaling over 76,000 square meters of constructed space. These buildings house classrooms, laboratories, a library, offices, meeting rooms, as well as auditoriums, two grand lecture halls, an honor hall, and an amphitheater
==Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship==
Universidad de Los Andes has several courses, programs and tedtalks about innovation and entrepreneurship. Courses like Design Thinking, Space creating, Laboratories of innovation, Entrepreneurship growth, among others.
==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==
Universidad de Los Andes promotes an innovative ecosystem through external relations. One example of it is the huge number of international relations the institution has to establish innovative alliances. For instance, Stanford University and their UIF Program.
==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 idea and 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==
*[[Fellow:Azul Lizana Cousiño]]
===Fellows 2022===
