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Hub Comillas is a multidisciplinary project of educational innovation, social-based entrepreneurship, and knowledge generation and transfer. The Hub will begin operations during the first quarter of 2022.
Tecnológico de Monterrey, the Government of Cantabria, and the University of Cantabria signed an alliance to implement “Hub Comillas,” a multidisciplinary project of educational innovation, social-based entrepreneurship, and the generation and transfer of knowledge. The ten-year initiative will promote teaching research and entrepreneurship in the social economy.
Hub Comillas will be located 30 km from the capital, Santander, Spain. The Hub was created by an agreement among the two universities and the Government of Cantabria to develop educational innovation and social entrepreneurship projects in higher education, building on Tec’s relationship with Cantabria through the entrepreneurship programs implemented there. The Hub’s primary purpose is to promote sustainable and inclusive growth, detecting and leveraging various opportunities in the territory.
The Hub will begin operations during the first quarter of 2022, inviting professors from Tec de Monterrey and the University of Cantabria to collaborate in creating the future of education and lifelong learning. Three principal areas of development will be addressed:
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Artificial intelligence and data science applied in adaptive learning.
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Neuroeducation and cognitive neurosciences to understand how people learn.
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Lifelong learning to find ways universities can transform themselves into training partners for continuing education of students throughout their lives.
“At Tec de Monterrey, we seek to create alliances that amplify the impact of our initiatives to benefit the students at Tec and other parts of the world. Today, along with the University and the Government of Cantabria, we reaffirm our commitment to the evolution of education and the generation of spaces to ignite entrepreneurship and innovation,” said Juan Pablo Murra, Rector of Professional and Postgraduate Programs at Tecnologico de Monterrey.
This alliance is possible thanks to the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism framed within the Next Generation EU program of the European Union, a current emergency funding of limited duration used exclusively to create response and recovery measures addressing the COVID 19 crisis. These funds have four main directions: digital transformation, ecological transition, gender equality, and social and territorial cohesion.
“The Government of Cantabria aspires to reconvert the Comillas Campus into a center for science, entrepreneurship, and research for the future of our community,” says Pablo Zuloaga, vice president of the Government of Cantabria. “It is a project that aims to generate economic development by betting on social entrepreneurship,” explains María Sánchez, Minister of Economy and Finance of Cantabria.
The Cantabrian Government obtained the funds to implement the Innovation Hub through the Recovery and Resilience Fund of the European Union with the collaboration of the Comillas Foundation and the University of Cantabria to bring Spain the experience of Tecnologico de Monterrey in educational innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer.
“Hub Comillas will enable the Institute for the Future of Education and Tec de Monterrey to remain permanently connected with the research and innovation community in Europe. Thus, the university can attract talent to develop research activities with European partners and connect them to the projects already developed by the Institute. This will help Tec to access other types of funds available in Europe while positively impacting the region through innovation and technology transfer initiatives,” said Dr. José Escamilla, Associate Director of the Institute for the Future of Education.
The alliance of these institutions anticipates pervasive social impact thanks to the digital transformation of higher education in Cantabria, the origin of a permanent ecosystem for entrepreneurship, and continuous advice and resources for companies and entrepreneurs, providing the best tools to overcome the various crises caused by the pandemic.
Translation by Daniel Wetta.
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