Participating Institutions
Europe
University of Vigo
The University of Vigo is a young and dynamic institution in northwestern Spain that offers a wide range of training in its three specialized and innovative campuses that make it up. Founded in 1990, this institution has maintained constant growth and consolidation, positioning itself as a cutting-edge university, with excellence as its objective, and which is growing as an international reference in innovation and research. Present in the south of Galicia, on the border with Portugal, in the municipalities of Ourense, Pontevedra and Vigo with three specialized campuses with more than 30 training and research centers, as well as sports and leisure facilities, with a continuous cultural program.
Coordinator
Maria Isabel Doval – mdoval@uvigo.es
Porto Polytechnic Institute
The Porto Polytechnic Institute (IPP) is one of the largest higher education institutions in Portugal with more than 21,211 students. It comprises 8 schools offering training in engineering, education, accounting, management, hospitality and tourism, arts, media, design, health and sports, spread over 3 campuses. The IPP integrates several research centers, covering the different areas of the training offer, several of which are qualified as excellent, and participates in dozens of international projects in which partners from all continents participate.
Coordinator
João Rocha – jsr@isep.ipp.pt
Latin America
Caldas University
The University of Caldas is a national public entity founded in 1943 that contributes to the generation, appropriation, dissemination and application of knowledge through curricular, research and projection processes, to the solution of regional and national problems. The University of Caldas, accredited of high quality by the Ministry of Education, has worked for the sustainable development and integration of the region and Colombia.
Coordinator
Margarita Maria Lopez Pinzon – internacionalizacion@ucaldas.edu.co
Autonomous University of Manizales
The Autonomous University of Manizales is an accredited institution of high quality in the institutional field and its undergraduate and postgraduate programs that link excellence and recognition in the national and international academic, business, social and governmental fields, with a distinctive seal of innovation. and entrepreneurship, and principles of ethics, peaceful coexistence and social responsibility.
Coordinator
Bellazmin Arenas Quintana – reddeproyección@autonoma.edu.co
Autonomous University of Nayarit
The Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN) is recognized as the most important educational project in the State of Nayarit, Mexico. It is a public institution of upper secondary and higher education made up of a community that promotes sustainable development with social responsibility, from a global, human, critical and plural perspective. To date, it offers 65 academic programs in arts, health sciences, basic sciences and engineering, economic-administrative, biological, agricultural and fisheries sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Coordinator
Carolina Cuevas – carolina.cuevas@uan.edu.mx
Technological University of Nayarit
The Technological University of Nayarit is one of the most important higher education options in the State of Nayarit, having as a priority the training of professionals with a sense of humanity, innovation and a high commitment to the sustainable development of their environment; Currently it is a strong link with the public, social and private sectors through research and development of projects that seek to promote the region. It has 12 careers for higher university technicians and 11 at the undergraduate and engineering level.
Coordinator
Julissa Gomez Varela – julissa.gomez@utnay.edu.mx
organizations
Ronsel Foundation
The Ronsel Foundation is a charitable-teaching entity, registered in the Registry of Foundations of Galician Interest under the Protectorate of the Xunta de Galicia. It was created in the year 2000 with the aim of facilitating the employability of those most in need and improving the employability of unemployed people. It has four functional areas of work: employment guidance, intermediation, occupational training and advice for the creation of companies-self-employment.
Coordinator
Luis Garcia Duty – luis@fundacionronsel.org
Luker Foundation
The Luker Foundation is a business foundation that creates and promotes social innovation solutions for development and equity through strong public, private, and academic partnerships. Our work focuses on projects in alliance through three strategic lines in education, entrepreneurship and rural development.
Coordinator
Juliana Toro – jtoro@funluker.org.co
Chamber of Commerce of Manizales by Caldas
The Chamber of Commerce of Manizales by Caldas is a Legal Entity of Private Law, of a corporate, union and non-profit nature, made up of merchants registered in the Public Mercantile Registry, created on February 14, 1913.
In compliance with the tasks delegated by the state, it is an institution dedicated to organizing, coordinating and protecting commercial activity. One of its functions is to promote programs and activities for the growth and strengthening of entrepreneurs, contributing to the generation of economic value and development of the region.
Its jurisdiction is made up of 18 municipalities: Manizales, Villamaría, Neira, Aránzazu, Salamina, Pácora, Aguadas, Filadelfia, La Merced, Marmato, Supía, Riosucio, Anserma, Risaralda, San José, Belalcázar, Viterbo and Marulanda.
Coordinator
Luz Mary Cortés Vargas – lmcortes@ccm.org.co