{"id":21055,"date":"2020-03-23T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/?p=21055"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:29:19","slug":"the-north-american-ecoinnovation-network-visits-neeuko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insagrado.sagrado.edu\/en\/the-north-american-ecoinnovation-network-visits-neeuko\/","title":{"rendered":"The North American EcoInnovation Network visits Neeuko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The group, made up of directors of innovation centers in Canada, the Unites States, and Mexico, came to learn more about Sagrado\u2019s entrepreneurship and sustainability agenda.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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By Liz Yanira del Valle
Collaborator <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Establishing a connection with the aim of sharing resources, knowledge, and opportunities was the driving force behind the dialogue between various members of the North American EcoInnovation Network<\/a> and representatives of Sagrado\u2019s executive team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Javier de Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez, director of Neeuko: Sagrado\u2019s Collaborative Innovation Center<\/a> and host of the event, welcomed ten of his peers in the Network, to which the Center belongs. He is also one of the Network\u2019s nine founding members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis visit coincides with a time when Sagrado is establishing a new academic project that seeks to empower students who dream of causing change in a world full of new challenges, both local and international.\u201d <\/p>Javier de Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez, director of Neeuko <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

According to Georgina O’Farrill, project leader of the Ecosystems and Green Growth Units, the Network \u201cwas created by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation<\/a> to promote youth and community leadership in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship in favor of environmental protection and sustainable development in North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, O’Farrill introduced the topic\nof the 2020 Youth Innovation Challenge, through which they encourage young\npeople between the ages of 18 and 30 who reside in Canada, the United States\n(including Puerto Rico), and Mexico to propose innovative solutions that\ncontribute to the way we face environmental challenges and constitute an\nopportunity for communities in the region\u2019s three countries. She also explained\nthat the Network serves as a facilitator for these initiatives to receive\ngovernment support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the dialogue table, Sagrado\u2019s\nrepresentation was led by its president, Gilberto Marxuach, Esq., who offered\nvisitors a historical account of Sagrado\u2019s founding, placed the Puerto Rico\u2019s\nhigher education system in its historical framework, and outlined the socio-economic\nsituation of the Island in recent years, which motivates us to face the new\nchallenges and discover new models in the field of education that adjust to\ndynamic and changing realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a wealth of talent, excellent creative minds, but we need guidance to know how you have transferred that to different educational fields and what your experiences have been; to know how you transfer technological knowledge to industrial production, to the field of science, in short, to all educational areas.\u201d<\/p>Gilberto Marxuach, Esq., President of Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n University <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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As for Dr. Javier Hern\u00e1ndez Acosta,\ndirector of Sagrado\u2019s Department of Business Administration and author of Creative Entrepreneurship<\/em>, he described his\ndepartment\u2019s academic offer and the plans for developing studies in social\ninnovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Executive Vice President for\nAcademic Affairs, Dr. Mar\u00eda Teresa Mart\u00ednez, further explained Sagrado\u2019s\nacademic offer and programs, as well as the efforts to implement changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laurie Mel\u00edn, from the Internationalization and Interuniversity Relations Office, and Marlyn Mart\u00ednez, project manager of Nuestro Barrio<\/em>: Santurce Cultural District<\/a>, were also in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Canada\u2019s representatives explained how they have looked for solutions in their centers to problems such as waste management. Later, Klaudia S\u00e1nchez, academic coordinator of the Social and Sustainability Program of Anahuac University in Mexico, together with two network ambassador students, Paola Orozco and Brenda Morales, presented the diversity of the academic offer of said program, which is a benchmark at the global level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe creatively combine environmental, social, and economic matters. Let\u2019s remember that selling sunglasses is not the same as an idea to improve water quality or to empower marginal areas with all the degree of sensitivity that corporate social responsibility entails\u201d.<\/p>Klaudia S\u00e1nchez, academic coordinator of the Social and Sustainability Program of Anahuac University, Mexico <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Brock Dickinson (University of Waterloo,\nOntario, Canada), Riadh Mestiri and My Anh Victoria Th\u00e2n (Universit\u00e9 Laval, Quebec,\nCanada), Omar Ch\u00e1vez (Autonomous University of Quer\u00e9taro) and several student\nambassadors from that institution also joined the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neeuko\u2019s student ambassadors included\nAmanda Crespo, Santiago Ram\u00edrez, Sof\u00eda V\u00e1zquez, and Noreimy Carrasquillo, students\nof Sagrado\u2019s schools of Natural Sciences and Business Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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