COLFUTURO Year Book of Selected Candidates 2019

This programhas the purpose of promoting a greater participation of candidates with academic excellence in COLFUTURO summons, specifically, those from public universities. The summons are made per year, in order to identify the future seedings. The process for the election of the candidates of the Talent Seeding is highly rigorous and is focused on academic excellence and in the leadership qualities of the candidate, considering criteria such as the position held in the undergraduate program and the grade point aggregate, among other academic merits and acknowledgements. The experience of COLFUTURO has shown that the main reasons why many of the most brilliant professionals of the country refrain from starting postgraduate studies is the lack of domain of a foreign language, the lack of knowledge on how to choose a university of academic excellence and the belief that it is impossible to finance the costs of living and studying abroad. The Talent Seeding Programdirectly works on solving these problems through personalized assistance and advice that includes several tools, such as counseling, workshops, informative sessions, ratings of the postgraduate programs, review of application essays and requirements, and a technological tool. The assistance process is provided for a period of up to three years. COLFUTURO, through the Seeding, has set the goal to strengthen areas such as Engineering, Health Sciences, Basic Sciences, Economy, Social Sciences, Education, Arts and Agricultural Sciences and Environment. The Talent Seeding has been operating for nine years, and currently has 1.100 participants. These are last grade undergraduate students and professionals who have just graduated, who have obtained an average above 10%of their classes, who make part of an investigation group certified by Colciencias, have obtained an Ecaes above 5%or have obtained the summa cum laude merit or have graduated with honors. Talent Seeding Selection process 2019 70