Today, Thursday February 3rd, the press conference for the launch of the 3rd generation of the SINAPSIS program was held at the Centro Integral de Servicios Zapopan, where the Mayor of Zapopan Juan José Frangie Saade was present along with the members of the panel, Montserrat Hidalgo, Director of Entrepreneurship, Salvador Villaseñor, General Coordinator of Economic Development and Combating Inequality, Gabriela Villanueva Lomelí, Head of the Unit of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centers of the University of Guadalajara and Javier Alejandro Tiscus, General Coordinator of Economic Development and Combating Inequality, Gabriela Villanueva Lomelí, Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centers Unit of the University of Guadalajara and Javier Alejandro Tiscareño Pedroza, Director of the Business Incubator and Accelerator of the Universidad Panamericana, who gave an explanation to the media about what this project will achieve.
Sinapsis is a programme of the Directorate of Entrepreneurship that seeks to promote the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by inspiring and preparing university students to be agents of change and to develop projects that have to do with the development of smart cities in the Municipality of Zapopan.
SINAPSIS is one of the programmes to which the municipality has committed itself, in the words of the Mayor: "We are convinced that young people are not the future, they are the present of Mexico".
The programme is aimed at university students and those who, through the formation of multidisciplinary teams and different activities such as workshops, conferences and interactive activities, will develop and validate in 3 days projects for the development of smart cities.
The first edition was held at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA), a 3-day bootcamp, where local problems were raised and addressed from the point of view of the university students, and at the same time the government and the university worked together to follow up on the proposed solutions until they were implemented. The line of action: how to make Zapopan a better city for children?
In its second edition, the first social entrepreneurship contest "Emprende SEMS" is held in collaboration with Educación Media Superior of the University of Guadalajara, Hult Prize at UdeG and Sinapsis Zapopan, where students from Prepas UDG developed innovative, disruptive and sustainable social entrepreneurship ideas, aligned with the challenge of the Hult Prize Foundation 2021.
In the words of the Director of Spark UP at Universidad Panamericana "We are sure that this type of initiative promoted by the Zapopan City Council will help to promote innovation and entrepreneurship within the university community of the municipality. Through the preparation of agents of change, who can generate viable solutions to adequately respond to the basic needs of institutions, companies, and the inhabitants themselves. Both economically, as well as in operational, social and environmental aspects."
