<span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 7 different faculties :</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Law School</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Faculty of Business Science and Economics</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Faculty of Engineering</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Faculty of Communication</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Faculty of Biomedical Sciences</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Business School (IEEM)</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 20 different major for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the colleges listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The number of professors and faculty members fostering innovation and entrepreneurship has been growing in the last couple of years. This whole new spirit lead to the creation of Initium. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation and entrepreneurship mindset. It is also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities.There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs or Investment Projects for example.</span></span>
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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS<br/span></span><br/span>=
<span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>= <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy One: Create an entrepreneurial club of UM students</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But not any student can get in. It must be something that make this club special. So it would be a pre-selection. The judges (at the beginning would be us: Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change. Being a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (logistics, communication, fundraising, etc). Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the members which would help in finding a job.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The meetings would take place in ZROOMs (classrooms that already exist in the UM, that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six), once a week, the day that all the members agree about.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the group members can have. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task by the end of March.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Create a selection commitment who will pick the members of the club by interviews. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of April.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite members to the club. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task at the middle of April.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because this is a good way to engage students to this sort of activities. It’s not the same that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, everything would be more fun and informal, and it would attract much more their attention. We see that many students doesn’t even give the opportunity to this new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. This would be a great way to open their minds.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one. We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people. For that reason we thought about tables, where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, and then the guests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0Despite there is a center of leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators at the University, 0we find a weak innovation and entrepreneurship culture among students, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"especially because the same students go to the workshops and talks, and there are few. Many students don’t know about the existence of Initium or they don’t take advantage of it privileges. So we think that if create an independent entrepreneurial club with UM students, this could change.</span><br/>Step #1<br/span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Once the club is created, we will assign mentors to the groups - But not any student can get in. It must be something that the members formed make this club special. So it would be a pre- to guide them with the organization of selection. The judges (at the events. </span><span style="font-sizebeginning would be us: 14Cecilia, Romina, Matías and Luis) must see an entrepreneurial spirit, and show that they could be an agent of change.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgbBeing a member of this club would be also a privilege for the CVs of the members. In the club, the members can work for projects or areas (0logistics, 0communication, fundraising, 0etc); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at . Then, the same members can reclute students for specific projects. It would count with Initium’s support, but it would be independent, so it must have a director that at the beginning would be probably one of us, or a graduate student. The director can also make recommendation letters for the beginning of Maymembers which would help in finding a job.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgbThe meetings would take place in ZROOMs (0classrooms that already exist in the UM, 0that is similar to Stanford classrooms) or even better, 0the Design Thinking Room that we’re also planning to do (see Strategy Six); background-color: transparent; , once a week, the day that all the members agree about.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-weightsize: 70014.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at Talk to UM authorities and see what type of benefits the end of Maygroup members can have.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weightstyle: 700italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation Romina will handle this task by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeksthe end of March.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects- </span><span style="font-size: 14. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and innovation culture we have at our campus.</span6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2<br/><br/span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting : Create a selection commitment who will pick the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest members of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved.club by interviews. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that takes Romina will handle this task at the students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the student learn by designing, testing, and develop his team venturebeginning of April. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #13</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Talk Make a communication campaign to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, invite members to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a good programmationclub. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias Cecilia will handle this task at the end middle of MarchApril.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Make a communication campaign to invite students who have the old programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of June.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having a mentor that guides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, and a key to successful venture. For the Initium Center to organize this may be difficult, below are the milestones and steps to make this happen.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:<br/span>Strategy Two: Students lead social events</span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding the mentors.</span><br/span>==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea Because this is a good way to engage students to find mentors that have some this sort of activities. It’s not the following: knowledge in some areasame that Initium or UM’s authorities make innovation and entrepreneurship events because it’s less personal and more academic. If UM students made this events, connections, experience, timeeverything would be more fun and informal, and willingnessit would attract much more their attention. One of We see that many students doesn’t even give the ways opportunity to do so is by giving incentives to professorsthis new world, because they have a wrong concept about it. Also in the Initium web site, there can This would be a volunteer mentoring subscription, great way to open for everybodytheir minds.</span><br/span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>- </span><span style="font-size: 14The social events would be organized by the entrepreneurial club that we mentioned at strategy one.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0We need to be different from the other networking events that already exist in Uruguay, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-size: 14where the entrepreneurs talk between them or with the same people.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0For that reason we thought about tables, 0where in each one there is a recognized entrepreneur who is available to answer any question and give advice, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding and then the mentoring featureguests can rotate to other tables to talk to other entrepreneurs and other guests.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.- </span></span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize: 14.6667px; font-guidfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-15a44742color: transparent; font-e2aeweight: 700; vertical-624falign: baseline; white-6683space: pre-ebc337148279wrap;">Step #1</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this : Once the club iscreated, having we will assign mentors to add the groups - that the members formed - to guide them with the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in organization of the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 monthevents.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task at the beginning of May.</span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize: 14.6667px; font-guidfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-15a44742color: transparent; vertical-e2aealign: baseline; white-624fspace: pre-6683wrap;">-ebc337148279"</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2<br/span><span style="font- size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Find sponsors to afford this events. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weightstyle: 700italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advertising</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-styleweight: italic700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now until it is knownStrategy Three: Create a new course that boost motivation by taking students to a real startup launch in 16 weeks</span><br/span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.6667px; font-family: Arialtransparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial; font-weightsize: 700; vertical-align: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Strategy Five: Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know Strong academic pressure and curricula makes it difficult to have time to explore other projects. This has been a problem that the four of us have experienced but we agree on the fact that time is always a limited resource but motivation is the key to success. We believe this problem has strong connections with the weak student entrepreneurship and take advantage of it benefits</span>innovation culture we have at our campus.</span>
<span id><br/><span style="docsfont-internalsize: 14.6667px; font-guidfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-15a44742color: transparent; vertical-e2aealign: baseline; white-624fspace: pre-6683-ebc337148279wrap;">For this reason, our solution to this problem involves a new course that boost motivation by getting the students 100% involved in doing and not just planning. Class projects that end with a powerpoint presentation to the rest of the class have became a classic but no one really cares about the project and hardly ever people get motivated and really involved.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A known problem Start Up 01 is a 4,5 credit course, as any other elective, that not many takes the students know all to a real startup launch in 16 weeks. Its an applied course that lets the things that Initium providesstudent learn by designing, and just some know that Initium had a web sitetesting, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually likedevelop his team venture.</span><br/span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize: 14.6667px; font-guidfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-15a44742color: transparent; vertical-e2aealign: baseline; white-624fspace: pre-6683wrap;">-ebc337148279"</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Step #1</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire Talk to María Martha, Business Administration’s coordinator and Josefina Maisonnave, Initium’s director, to find the correct professors to lead this class and make a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporarygood programmation. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br/><span idstyle="docsfont-internalsize: 14.6667px; font-guidfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-15a44742color: transparent; vertical-e2aealign: baseline; white-624fspace: pre-6683wrap;">-ebc337148279"</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Talk to the coordinators of all the careers and authorities to add this course in students curricula. It’s important that subjects like “Creativity & Innovation” and “Entrepreneurial initiative” go first. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of April.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #23</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Have Make a innovative and fun event that raise communication campaign to invite students who have the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for exampleold programme, to take it as an elective course. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina Matias will handle this task at the end of MayJune.</span></span><br/><br/><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Strategy Four: Create a mentor’s network that guide entrepreneurs in each step of their projects</span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution. </span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally be thought Having a mentor that if Civil Engineering students can help with the constructionguides entrepreneurs in each step is a great advantage, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students key to construct successful venture. For the building. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events Initium Center to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle organize this taskmay be difficult, below are the milestones and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope steps to do make this in July-Augusthappen.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2afe2ae-f641624f-c6136683-65f9b3ba7362ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:<br/span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RELATED LINKSFinding the mentors.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2afe2ae-f641624f-c6136683-65f9b3ba7362ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universidad de Montevideo: In April there must be at least 5 mentors.</span>[http:</span><br/universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo ><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">httpThe idea is to find mentors that have some of the following:knowledge in some area, connections, experience, time, and willingness. One of the ways to do so is by giving incentives to professors. Also in the Initium web site, there can be a volunteer mentoring subscription, open for everybody.</span></universityinnovation.orgspan><br/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo><br/span>]<span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia TejeraStep #2: </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera <span <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http:Adding the mentoring feature</span></universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejeraspan> </spanid="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279">]<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mentoring form in the Initium web site must be developed, by April.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina Dominzain: The way students have to find their mentos is through Initium, this is, having to add to the Initium web site a form for students. This can be done by any Computer Science Engineer in the university. It shouldn’t take more that 1 month.</span>[http:</span><br/universityinnovation.org><br/wiki/Romina_Dominzain ><span styleid="fontdocs-internal-size: 14.6667px; fontguid-family: 15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; verticalvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain- </span>]<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3: </span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias Menendez: Advertising</span>[http:<//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); background-color: transparent; textfont-decorationstyle: underlineitalic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http:From now until it is known</span></universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendezspan><br/span>]<span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many students tell us that they didn’t know that the Initium web site existed. So we think that hanging posters in the university it’s a good way to make students informed.</span></span> == <br/><span styleid="fontdocs-sizeinternal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luis Gurmendez: <br/span>[httpStrategy Five:Improve Initium center’s communication so more students can know it and take advantage of it benefits<br/><br/universityinnovation.org></wikispan></Luis_Gurmendez span> == <span styleid="fontdocs-internal-size: 14.6667px; fontguid-family: 15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; verticalvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovationA known problem is that not many students know all the things that Initium provides, and just some know that Initium had a web site, and if they know they never use it. In Initium’s website there is all kind of information about everything they make. Improving Initium’s center’s communication may go together with making students visit it’s website more often. This is a complex situation, because it involved advertising something that students not usually like.org</wiki/Luis_Gurmendezspan></span>]<span style="br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1</span></span><brstyle="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Hire a publicity agent and receive advices from them. This would be temporary. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias will handle this task at the end of March.</span></span><br/><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Have a innovative and fun event that raise the public image of Initium and where the students can understand what Initium can offer but in a creative way with Snapchat for example. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia and Romina will handle this task at the end of May.</span></span> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2ae-624f-6683-ebc337148279"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Strategy Six: Create a Design Thinking Space where UM students can go at any time to work in their projects</span><br/><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/>Initium center only help students in their first steps of their projects: to make their business plan and find financial support, but it’s difficult to support them after that because of it’s capacity, space and lack of time for the people who work there. If they create a project in the courses that Initium offers, then they don’t have the space and materials to continue it. A Design Thinking Space without fixed classes where any student can work in their projects, at any hour, would be a great solution.</span></span> <span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This would take place in Engineering Faculty because we can also solve the problem of Engineering students who feel disconnected from the other faculties, so any student who wants to use it must come to this Faculty. Also we find an interesting space where now are the labs, but if we construct a 2 floors building, we can put all there.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally be thought that if Civil Engineering students can help with the construction, it’ll help them to improve their practical work, it’s more personal and it reduces the cost.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #1:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Talk to Civil Engineering professors, so we can plan a project with their students to construct the building. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina will handle this task, between 13th and 17th of March.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #2:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make events to raise money or find sponsors. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task, and she’ll organise them in April.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #3:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy all the materials. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in July-August.</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step #4:</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make a communication campaign to invite UM students to try it. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia will handle this task. We hope to do this in August-September.</span></span> == Related links == <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-15a44742-e2af-f641-c613-65f9b3ba7362"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universidad de Montevideo: </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Universidad_de_Montevideo</span>]<br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cecilia Tejera: </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Cecilia_Tejera</span>]<br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romina Dominzain: </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Romina_Dominzain</span>]<br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matias Menendez: </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matias_Menendez</span>]<br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luis Gurmendez: </span>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Luis_Gurmendez</span>]</span>