For UNIMINUTO, entrepreneurship is the opportunity to transform the human environment and the possibility of building a dignified life through progress, particularly for Colombia's most vulnerable population. We believe that entrepreneurship has the potential to change people's lives. This is how the university has committed itself through its policy documents and the establishment of 18 Progress Centers that provide services to Colombian youth, as well as the establishment of the country's first Social Innovation Science Park, the implementation of different programs to support entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises in the popular economy for accessing financing for entrepreneurs, training, technical assistance, business development, mentoring, and incubation.

Our primary outcomes include 177,000 young people trained in entrepreneurship, 7,692 ideas incubated, 4,104 productive units, companies created and strengthened, 25,904 micro-businesses strengthened, 52,000 jobs, 127,000 people involved in social innovation solutions, and 2,372 organizations created. The Vice Presidency of the Republic of Colombia has recognized the contributions to the country's economic reactivation, as well as the nomination for the Reimagine Education 2019 awards and entry into the prestigious QS Latin America University Ranking 2023.

The participation of UNIMINUTO in the Triple E Awards is an opportunity to highlight the university's commitment to entrepreneurship and social transformation. Being chosen as a winner in the Entrepreneurial University category would be a demonstration of the university's efforts in developing leaders who are committed to the well-being of their communities.

Father Camilo Bernal
Vice President of the Minuto de Dios Organization
Minuto de Dios Organization,  Minuto de Dios Organization



Father Harold Castilla Devoz
General Rector
General Rectory,  Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO



Mauricio Betancurt Canola
Minuto de Dios Advisor
General Rectory,  Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO



Gina Lorena Santana Zuleta
Deputy Director of Progresa Centers
Office of the General Academic Vice-Rector,  Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios UNIMINUTO

Within the framework of the triple e awards, UNIMIINUTO wishes to recognize the Directors who have made significant contributions to the institution's evolution into an entrepreneurial university with national and international acclaim: Father Camilo Bernal Hadad, Vice President of the Minuto de Dios Organization , Father Harold Castilla Devoz, Rector General of UNIMINUTO, Mauricio Betancurt Cañola, Adviser to the Rector General of UNIMINUTO and Gina Lorena Santana Zuleta, Deputy Director of the Progresa Centers, who have generated better institutional capacities at the service of the country through their leadership and determined participation in the creation of the services they have today the academic community's institution for entrepreneurs.
Special thanks to the Campus Rectors and Campus Academic Vice-rectors of the UNIMINUTO System for their unwavering support in putting the guidelines and strategies into action, as well as the collaborators of the Progresa Centers, Center leaders, professionals, teachers and entrepreneurship mentors, teams of work of the Social Innovation Science Park, administrative staff of the Minuto de Dios organization, who, through their work, have transformed lives for the social impact that Colombia so desperately requires. Special thanks to the public and private sector allies who, in collaboration with UNIMINUTO, have made actions for the benefit of entrepreneurs in the country a reality.