<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Step #6:''' Launch the event.</span></span>
== <span style="font-size: large;">'''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strategy Four:Inter-college hackathon</span>'''</span> == <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Nowadays the greater economic activity in Uruguay is based on the development of small and medium enterprises and most of them are born as startups, and this phenomenon requires creativity, teamwork, and many abilities more. That's why we realized that the best way to show them how the process of building a startup is by doing hackathons where students form every university in Uruguay con attend.</span></span><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In this environment, students will have the opportunity to gather people of different areas of studies, crate an environment to boost creativity and innovation, generate communication and teamwork ties.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This hackathon will be organized for and by students. There would be divided by commissions and each of them will deal with a different aspect of the planification. It could last two days, and it can be done over the weekend. The subject of the first hackathon would be “what would improve my daily life”, with this challenge, students will be able apply all the knowledge they have in I&E to real and tangible solutions. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Prior to this inter-college hackathon, we would to a test version for UM students.</span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Step #1:''' Interview and look for students that are interested in hackathon, then recruit the ones that are willing to take the responsibility of organizing a project.</span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Step #2:''' Contact potential benefactors such as I&E centers like Initium.</span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Step #3:''' After covering all the needs we would present the project to the university authorities. Firstly, we would tell them the results of the interviews and how many students are interested in the activity, secondly, we would show them the list of our potential benefactors and how these are going to help us, finally, we would discuss the potential days the hackathon could be held, where will it take place and what additional resources could the university give us. </span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Step #4:''' We would promote the hackathon through social media, the campus life newsletter. Moreover, we would nail down the deals with the benefactors. We would buy the necessarily material for the challenges and prototype how are we going to arrange the space where the hackathon would take place.</span></span></div><div></div>
= '''<span style="font-size: x-large;">STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE AMONG UM STUDENTS (2019)</span>'''<br/> =