== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==
<div p style="text-align: justify;"><big><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Uruguayan government is helping the startup industry flourish by implementing these institutions : National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII) and National Development Agency (ANDE). Enhancing this, the Co work spaces and the special Centers dedicated to supporting students, postgraduates and graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit are an important base in the progress of the realization of ideas.</span></span></big></divp><div p style="text-align: justify;"><big><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regarding to ANII, this institution makes available to the public funds for research projects, national and international postgraduate scholarships and incentive programs for innovative culture and entrepreneurship, both in the private and public sectors.</span></span></big></divp><div p style="text-align: justify;"><big><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In relation to ANDE, their aim is to contribute to productive economic development, in a sustainable way, with social equity and environmental and territorial balance.</span></span></big></divp><div p style="text-align: justify;"><big><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ithaka is the Sponsoring Institution of Entrepreneurship (IPE) in front of the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) and the National Development Agency (ANDE).</span></span></big></divp><div p style="text-align: justify;"><big><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to the support of ANII and ANDE, Ithaka´s pre-incubated entrepreneurs will have access to capital to carry out the validation of their idea.</bigspan></divspan><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"/big><big/p><spanbig><span style="font-size: 11ptsmall; "><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; whitearial,helvetica,sans-space: pre-wrapserif;"><br/span></span></bigspan><br/big> </divbig><div dirspan style="ltrfont-size:small;" ><span style="linefont-heightfamily: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; marginarial,helvetica,sans-bottom: 0ptserif;">'''<big><span id="docs-internal-guid-da02c675-7fff-5720-b0ee-7f1b6ab3a6c5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UCU ́s Strategic Plan for the Future</span></span></big>'''</divspan><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"/span></big> <spanbig><span style="font-size: 11ptsmall; "><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variantarial,helvetica,sans-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapserif;"><br/span></span></bigspan><br/big> </divbig><div dirspan style="ltrfont-size:small;" ><span style="linefont-heightfamily: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; marginarial,helvetica,sans-bottom: 0ptserif;"><big><span id="docs-internal-guid-da02c675-7fff-5720-b0ee-7f1b6ab3a6c5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a diverse and alarming world, we have the challenge of committing ourselves to the creation of sustained value in the relationships and decisions we make daily.</span></span></span></span></big> </divbig><div dirspan style="ltrfont-size:small;" ><span style="linefont-heightfamily: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; marginarial,helvetica,sans-bottom: 0ptserif;"><big><span id="docs-internal-guid-da02c675-7fff-5720-b0ee-7f1b6ab3a6c5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In UCU ́s Strategic Plan, the aim is to be more innovative, creative, inclusive and open to the world. </span></span></span></span></big> </divbig><div dirspan style="ltrfont-size:small;" ><span style="linefont-heightfamily: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; marginarial,helvetica,sans-bottom: 0ptserif;"><big><span id="docs-internal-guid-da02c675-7fff-5720-b0ee-7f1b6ab3a6c5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When students learn, the sky isn't the limit, therefore UCU is constantly reinventing so that the academic experience is enhanced. UCU is achieving that by providing day to day new courses, careers, or even a new institution (as it is UCU Business School). </span></span></span></span></big> </divbig><div dirspan style="ltrfont-size:small;" ><span style="linefont-heightfamily: 1.38; marginarial,helvetica,sans-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0ptserif;"><big><span id="docs-internal-guid-da02c675-7fff-5720-b0ee-7f1b6ab3a6c5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every day that passes, UCU tries to be a better university, where all the stakeholders contribute to overall sustainable development.</span></span></bigspan></span></divbig><div><br/></div>
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