Latest News on Awards and Recognition

August 2021

• A biotechnology engineer won the Women Entrepreneurs Academy program
  Aug. 31, 2021
  Serrana Pérez, a biotechnology engineer and founder of Biolube, received the first prize for best startup from the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs.
• Agricultural Technology
  Aug. 27, 2021
  Ignacio Lorenzo and Christian Eichin, graduates of the Systems Engineering program, won first prize in the Agtech Challenge with their project Firedet, which aims to detect potential wildfires using cameras and artificial intelligence.
• Coordinator Joins the Scientific Committee of the IFABS 2021 Oxford Conference
  Aug. 10, 2021
• Architecture students received an honorable mention in the #DublinCall 2021 competition
  Aug. 10, 2021
  Two teams of architecture students from Universidad ORT Uruguay in Universidad ORT Uruguay honorable mentions in the #DublinCall 2021 international design competition, organized by the Star for Talents platform.
• Graduates' research project won first prize in the Agtech Challenge
  Aug. 6, 2021
• The Broken Glass Theory will compete in Gramado
  Aug. 5, 2021
• Vero De Design has announced its finalists
  Aug. 5, 2021
• A graduate in International Studies is Uruguay's new ambassador to Cuba
  Aug. 5, 2021
• The pioneering company in the digitization of freight forwarders raises $16 million in a funding round
  Aug. 4, 2021
  Nowports, Latin America’s first digital freight forwarder, received a $16 million investment from Mouro Capital, backed by Banco Santander. ORT alumni Maximiliano Casal (one of the company’s two co-founders) and Santiago García da Rosa (CTO) discuss what this financial backing means for the startup.
• A student in the Bachelor's Program in International Studies will participate in a program offered by the Botín Foundation
  Aug. 2, 2021