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Prototypes Exhibition: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
It is well known that Unicolombo forms bilingual professional with social responsability and with competences related to the entrepeneurship and innovation culture as a scientific research requirement. For that reason, the Hotel and Administration Program promotes academic events because they become the perfect scenery to strengthen these competences, like the 1st. TBE Tecnological Base Enterprise and Social Innovation Prototypes Fair that took place on November 15th, 2016, at Cuatro Vientos' facilities.
The objective of this academic event is to encourage the students to create projects that reflect the importance of the entrepreneurship and the innovation in the socio - economic development of the cities, regions and countries, where the tourism sector has an important role.
All Unicolombo's student body was invited to this exhibition and there was very active students and professor participation.
Hotel and Tourism Program's Project Winners:
Name of the project: Cleanning beaches
Semester: I
Leader: Karen Dayana Montiel Hernandez
Category: Green Economy
Name of the project: Magic Cartagena
Semester: II
Leader: Maia José Ramírez Pérez
Category: Orange Economy
The winners were invited to keep on working on their projects to improve the implementation of the prototypes. If the projects are carried to a superior level and registered on a data base, it will be possible to monitor them to encourage the students to develop the prototypes.
Academic Trek