Latest News on Awards and Recognition

June 2024

• Crowder: “The Private Investment Revolution” from the CIE to the Central Bank
  June 26, 2024
  After a lengthy approval process, the startup incubated at ORT’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship became a leader in crowdfunding when it received the first license from the BCU to operate in the crowdfunding sector.
• Faculty members from Universidad ORT Uruguay the National System of Researchers
  June 19, 2024
  Currently, 52 faculty members and researchers from Universidad ORT Uruguay the National System of Researchers (SNI).
• New promotion: Cabrera Borges is now Level I in the SNI
  June 19, 2024
  Dr. Claudia Cabrera Borges, a professor and advisor at the ORT Institute of Education, has been promoted to Level I of the National System of Researchers (SNI).
• The academic renewed her membership in the National System of Researchers as a Level II researcher
  June 18, 2024
  Dr. Laura Moya, a professor and researcher at the School of Architecture at Universidad ORT Uruguay, has been evaluated and will remain at Level II of the National System of Researchers (SNI) for four years (from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2028) in the field of Engineering and Technology, subfield of Materials Engineering.
• Academic Vice Dean Joins the SNI
  June 17, 2024
  The School of Communication and Design has new member in the National System of Researchers: Dr. Esteban Zunino.
• Promotions and reappointments of faculty members in the School of Engineering within the National System of Researchers
  June 14, 2024
  As a result of the latest call for applications issued by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), the following promotions and renewals of researchers from the School of Engineering to the SNI were announced, pursuant to the resolution dated May 22:
• The Marcelo Jelen Award honors three graduates for their journalistic reports
  June 14, 2024
  The winners of the 8th Marcelo Jelen National Print Media Awards were announced on April 18, and the awards ceremony took place on June 10, 2024.
• Architect Andrea Castro was elected to the board of the Uruguayan Association of Academic Journals
  June 11, 2024
  The election of the new Executive Board of the Uruguayan Association of Academic Journals (AURA) took place from May 13 to 15, 2024.
• A trip to Korea for the winner of the King Sejong Institute Public Speaking Contest
  June 10, 2024
  Fiorella Rohner, a systems engineering student at Universidad ORT Uruguay, won the 2024 Korean Public Speaking Contest, organized by the King Sejong Institute.
• Rediseña announced its winners
  June 10, 2024
  On June 5, 2024, the awards for the "Rediseña 09" contest, organized by Montevideo Shopping Center, were presented; this year's contest was inspired by the life and work of the artist Octavio Podestá.
• Design professor serves as honorary correspondent for the South Korean Ministry
  June 3, 2024
  In May, María Eugenia Pérez Burger began her duties as an honorary correspondent for South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism through the Honorary Reporters website.