{"id":7986,"date":"2020-01-16T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/40.117.174.162\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2024-11-20T04:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T04:29:45","slug":"the-trust-for-the-americas-innovaap-ucr-and-auge-launch-the-project-gente-emprende-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/pt\/the-trust-for-the-americas-innovaap-ucr-and-auge-launch-the-project-gente-emprende-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trust for the Americas, Innovaap-UCR and AUGE launch the project Gente Emprende in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. (January 16, 2020)<\/strong>  The Trust for the Americas<\/a> in partnership with the Collaborative Public Innovation Laboratory InnovaAP Laboratorio Colaborativo de Innovaci\u00f3n P\u00fablica InnovaAP<\/a> and the University Agency for Entrepreneurship Management of the University of Costa Rica launch the project Gente Emprende. Proyecto Gente Emprende.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gente Emprende\u2019s objective is to promote high social value impact projects, that have the capacity of becoming sustainable entrepreneurships. Its structure is composed of 1 introduction session, 5 public innovation workshops using the \u201csprint\u201d methodology, and 2 follow-up sessions for five municipalities outside of Costa Rica\u2019s Great Metropolitan Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUGE will guide the development of the entrepreneurs. AUGE focuses in understanding the issue being resolved and the solution created. The selected projects within each municipality will receive a maximum of $US5,000 for financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jorge Uma\u00f1a, local coordinator of The Trust for the Americas in Costa Rica \u201cWe seek to improve citizen participation in five municipalities of Costa Rica, through a strategy of developing co-creation processes with social actors and proposing solutions to local needs that result in viable, sustainable and high value projects for the population of these locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the month of January, informational workshops will be held for NGO\u2019s, philanthropies, media outlets, PYMES, cooperatives, and interested community groups within the selected municipalities, with the following itinerary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n