Latest News on Awards and Recognition

February 2021

• International film festivals with Uruguayan juries
  Feb. 23, 2021
  Both the 2021 New York Festivals Advertising Awards and the WINA ’21 festival feature ORT students and graduates as judges.
• ORT's MBA program has been reaccredited by AMBA
  Feb. 23, 2021
  The Association of MBAs (AMBA) is one of the world's leading accrediting bodies. Only 6% of MBA programs achieve this type of accreditation. The EMBA, a blended-learning Executive MBA, was also accredited.
• *Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa* has been added to the DOAJ database of scientific journals
  Feb. 22, 2021
  The academic journal *Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa*, a peer-reviewed, biannual scientific research publication of the Institute of Education at Universidad ORT Uruguay, was accepted in February 2021 into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
• ORT Joins Working Group to Develop a National Waste Management Plan
  Feb. 10, 2021
  Universidad ORT Uruguay invited to join the Working Group for the Development of the National Waste Management Plan (GT/PNGR), established under the Technical Advisory Commission on the Environment (Cotama).
• ORT’s Associate Dean for Research Named Among the Top 2% of Most Influential Researchers Worldwide
  Feb. 5, 2021
  Dr. Fernando Paganini, associate dean for research at the School of Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay, is among the most influential researchers internationally, according to a study published in the academic journal PLOS Biology.