26 December 2017
San Sebastian Campus
David Mejia, on the double Bachelor’s degree programme in Business Administration+ Computer Engineering, and Andrea Onandia, on the Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, won the award promoted by the Guipuzcoa Regional Council, delivered by Ignacio Altuna and the Kutxa Fundazioa.
Set within the framework of the Etorkizuna Erakiz initiative, the Pro Guipuzcoa Altuning Awards were given on 26 December in an event held in the Regional Council’s ceremonial hall. Organised by the I.M. de Altuna Foundation, with the cooperation of the Regional Council and the Kutxa Fundazioa, this award targeted students on official international programmes. They are afforded the opportunity to present their contributions to improve the future of Guizpuzcoa, based on their ideas and experiences during their stays abroad. The entries aim to serve as learning for economic reactivation or drive for the area and its positioning as an economically competitive and socially fair benchmark for society.
The following Deusto Business School in San Sebastian students’ winning projects:
- David Mejía Ares. Stay at the University of Edinburgh. His entry: “The great challenge of achieving well planned sustainable tourism for all”. Inspired in ‘Visit Scotland’, this initiative for a tourism model in Guipuzcoa presented a conceptual framework for areas of action and key factors. In addition, together with its inclusive approach it aimed to give greater information, visibility and awareness of cultural and environmental sustainability to visitors and local residents.
- Andrea Onandia Aguirrebeitia. Arrasate. Stay abroad at Richmond University, USA. Her entry: "UR Entrepreneurship Club - UREC". Apply the spirit of the American universities' Entrepreneurship Clubs, focusing on creating an informal communication space between regionally-based universities’ entrepreneurship initiatives and district and local development agencies with a view to creating attitudes and culture that favour entrepreneurship.
