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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.
==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).
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