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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas. It aims for academic excellence while providing rigorous critical and ethical character development, in order to enhance in all students an awareness of their social and citizenship responsibilities, as well as a firm commitment to the society. The university’s student body, in an environment of interdisciplinary and flexible integral character development, becomes the chief agent of the educational process. A highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prestigious faculty facilitates the development of an outstanding academic and professional life project that supports research, contributes to the development of the country, and transcends its geographical boundaries.</span></span></span></span></p>
== <span style="font-size:larger;">'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship'''</span> ==
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation has always been deeply embedded at the heart of the Universidad de los Andes. From the very core of the institution –it’s mission statement– can be seen to play a key role: “the University of the Andes is an autonomous, independent and </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovative </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance and respect for ideas [...]”</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student innovation and entrepreneurship is highly endorsed in certain faculties, both inside and outside of the classroom. The Business and Design Schools are the leaders in the creation and implementation of I&E opportunities in the classroom, with the Industrial Engineering department trailing not far behind. More and more, courses and study programs have been modified in order to further interest and expose students to I&E. These courses teach students the importance of keeping their minds open to everything I&E has to offer, and help them harvest finer entrepreneurial skills. Some of these courses have students dedicate the whole semester’s work to developing a project of their choosing, while others expose them to real-life cases and make them think outside the box.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even though most projects deviate and stay in just dreams, there are participation circles that step in to help student entrepreneurs. These include Empreandes, which helps them ideate </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a stronger and more innovative core at the beginning of their entrepreneurship , and </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centro de emprendimiento</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">certified mentors asses them with interactive workshops and business-oriented makerspace. Also, when students need guidance through their entrepreneurial process, big scale entrepreneurship accelerators like Despega Colombia, can help propel a student’s own particular idea.</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><font color="#666666" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to explore new strategies that promote student innovation and entrepreneurship we decided to expand the accompaniment course that tight now is only offered in industrial engineering. This department made this change a couple of years a go trying to make the classrooms for freshamen a more aproeachable space. Stadistics and surveys have provided sufficient data to conclude that this project is viable for the current resources available. In the future we wold love to say that all majors count with a class like this, where not only are student and senior students relationship closer but since their first months in school they are fascinated and willing to pursue any type of innovation/entrepreneurship the rest of their univesity years</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 11pt; text-align: justify; padding: 0pt 30pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-28a7089b-7fff-b2d7-97e7-35ed92378217"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universidad de Los Andes has a variety of tools and groups that promote students throughout the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, and continue to support projects when these entrepreneurs become alumni.</span></span></span></span></p>
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We think better when we're together</span></span></span> =
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span>Being the best is encouraged a matter of great relevance at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nevertheless, its hunger of being the best has cost a massive bad reputation on the society around itself. At the moment, the university has high standards of excellent education but it fails on showing how caring and human it can be with students. Some people reject the idea of being part of the allegedly best university in the country just because of its coldness and relationship with the student body. </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size: medium;">Just because this university does not show how compromised it is with their students and their own well being, doesn't mean it doesn't care about the students.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size: medium;">What has just been said is affecting the univerisity's name nationally and is stopping great students to enter it. That's why we have decided to "take the bullet" for our university and try to solve this social problematic. The solution is pretty simple but had an inmense impact if handled in the correct way:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size: medium;">Since we believe the people's voices are the reason why everything happens and how things evolve, we decided to not take for granted everybody's perception towards the university and make a plan of action once we count with what people think. It doesn't matter if they are students or complete outsiders, every constructive critisism counts and will help improve this university's prestige, so that we can be excellent academically, but also socially.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size: medium;">With the help of those who cared to answer our different kinds of surveys we did notice a pattern that indicates that the fame of this university is to be cold with students and deattached from their struggles, and way too attached and interested in the academical excellence.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size: medium;">Now, what we are interested on creating is a massive impact so that everyone can see how invested La Universidad de Los Andes is regarding their student body well-being and happiness overall. We plan on doing that with the help of different activities that motivate those who feel good inside the campus to share their story and also those who don't feel as satisfied to also share what's going through their head, because at the end of the day, many brains think better than one, and it is very clear that we all think better when we're together.</span></p>
