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The UCAM promotes 90 innovative business projects (29/01/2019)

In 22 years of life, the Catholic University has an extensive career in entrepreneurship.

Only during 2018, the Technological Institute of Murcia (ITM) has organized, together with the INCYDE Foundation and the International Chair Women, Business and Sports, in the case of women entrepreneurship, eight courses that have gathered more than 250 students.

The executive director of the ITM, César Nicolás says that "the percentage of companies that start after these courses is over 70%, a figure that encourages us to continue working on the promotion of entrepreneurial culture."

'Entrepreneurship in the Cultural and Creative sector', 'Female Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneurship in the Sports field' and 'Entrepreneurship in Climate Change and the Environment' are the four free training programs that have just been completed, with 103 students who have analyzed the opportunities that the market offers to their projects and have developed their business plan with individualized advice.

These are courses that are co-financed by the European Social Fund.

Projects like 'A world without plastics' (environmental consultancy to raise awareness about the excessive use of plastic) or the incorporation of a line of environment to a law firm, are two of the 23 business ideas that have been shaped in the course Entrepreneurship in Climate Change and the Environment.

EmFemeninio, organized by the International Chair Women, Business and Sports, which celebrates its fifth edition, has advised projects of linguistic immersion, tourism and graphic design.

Dicultura has guided business ideas as varied as the promotion of tourism, craftsmanship or marketing.

And finally Entrepreneurship in the sports field, in which projects such as a digital sports platform or a riding school with equine therapy treatments have been born.

At the closing ceremony, Juan José Ortega, CEO and co-founder of congafasdesol.com, and Hokana sunglasses, who transmitted to the students their passion for entrepreneurship.

Ortega, who reviewed his professional career, said that "it is necessary to promote entrepreneurial culture in regulated training, entrepreneurship requires passion and is a way of life that accompanies you throughout time."

The director of program development of the INCYDE Foundation, María Torres, affirmed that the entrepreneurial spirit born from the Catholic University is always very active: "I have heard very promising business ideas and we are very proud of these students".

Source: UCAM

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