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The universities UAB, UB, UPC, UPF, UOC, URV, UdG, UdL and UVic have created the University Entrepreneurship Network (Xarxa d'Emprenedoria Universitària). The initiative aims to carry out coordinated actions to foster entrepreneurship with the objective of contributing to the detection of business talent and business vocations within the university community. On 15 February the network was presented at the Aula Magna of the historical UB building in Barcelona.

The network receives funding from the Department of Business and Employment as part of the aids destined to innovative projects for the improvement in employment quality and social cohesion in Catalonia. The selected projects are incorporated into European Social Fund Operational Programme for Catalonia for 2007-2013 and fit in strategically with the government's Pla Inicia for future entrepreneurs.

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