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Fellow:Srdjan Dragovic

2019-10-20T19:39:41Z

JosePabon:

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Srdjan Dragovic is a University Innovation Fellow and and a medical student at the Technical University of Munich. He is originally from Belgrad/Serbia and emigrated with his parents in ’99 to Munich. After finishing High School, started studying civil engineering in Munich at TUM. Since medicine was a childhood dream he pursued to get a place in MedSchool in Munich which he accomplished after finishing his bachelor degree as an engineer. Srdjan is researching automated signal processing methods for neurophysiological signals pursuing a doctoral degree in medicine.

During his time in engineering school he was active in the student council and was teaching in various programs. Being passionate about teaching he is currently working on improving the teaching methods in medical school as an eScout. The aim of the eScout Initiative is bringing new teaching methods and technologies into MedSchool and thereby improving the learning experience for students.

In his free time Srdjan enjoys hiking, biking and other outdoor sports. Thinking outside the box and looking over the edge is elementary, he enjoys talks about topics he is not familiar with and is always eager to learn new things, looking for new challenges and goals.

== Related Links<br/> ==

[[Technische Universität München|Technische Universität München ]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

[[Vincent Jeltsch|Vincent Jeltsch ]]

[[Dennis Pötter|Dennis Pötter ]]

[[Tushaar bhatt|Tushaar bhatt ]]

[[Jose Pabon Andrade|Jose Pabon Andrade ]]

Fellow:Tushaar Bhatt

2019-10-20T19:39:06Z

JosePabon:

Tushaar Bhatt is a University Innovation Fellow from the Technical University Munich ans is studying Business Informatics in his Masters and he previously studied Business Informatics at TU Munich in his Bachelor's as well. He was born in India but grew up most of his life in Germany. In one of Germany's most innovative cities historically- Mannheim. The car, the bike, the lift and most importantly spaghetti ice cream were all invented in Mannheim.

Throughout his studies he was very active in TU Munich's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub UnternehmerTUM, where he participated in their Entrepreneurship Scholarship Manage&More while taking part in various projects and business plan seminars.

While studying he also shared his skills as a Microsoft Student Partner, a program created by Microsoft, to help students gain technical knowledge in particular fields which the students then share with their peers on campus.

This interaction ultimately motivated him to apply for the University Innovation Programme, as he could see how sharing the technological skills helps other students execute their ideas and further develop their prototypes.

== Related Links<br/> ==

[[Technische Universität München|Technische Universität München ]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

[[Vincent Jeltsch|Vincent Jeltsch ]]

[[Dennis Pötter|Dennis Pötter ]]

[[Srdjan Dragovic|Srdjan Dragovic ]]

[[Jose Pabon Andrade|Jose Pabon Andrade ]]

Fellow:Dennis Pötter

2019-10-20T19:38:33Z

JosePabon:

Dennis Pötter is a University Innovation Fellow candidate and an undergraduate medical student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).<br/>Originally Dennis is from Dortmund, a city in the west of Germany. After school he took a gap year to do voluntary work in the social sector. In 2014 he decides to study medicine and moved to Munich in the south of Germany. At first, he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for two years before he continues medical studies at the Technical University of Munich. At the TUM he was exposed to the University Innovation Fellows.

Dennis early knew he wants to work in the social sector he uses lots of time for extracurricular activities. In 2015 he became member of Campus for Change, a student non-profit organization in Munich with the aim to empower students starting social projects all over the world. Two years later he was elected to the Board of Directors of the organization. Moreover, Dennis engaged at Malteser and teached first aid to students and workers. From 2019 on Dennis worked as an e-scout at the medical faculty at TUM to improve digitalization of education.

The first interest Dennis ever had was about science. He started early to explore and investigate nature and focused more and more on the human body and pathogenesis. Shortly after starting studies he discovered his interest in entrepreneurship and attended different courses focusing on healthcare entrepreneurship. The lack of interdisciplinary offers motivates Dennis to improve the exchange of different disciplines in order to make the students explore their studies from another perspective.

== Related Links<br/> ==

[[Technische Universität München|Technische Universität München ]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

[[Vincent Jeltsch|Vincent Jeltsch ]]

[[Srdjan Dragovic|Srdjan Dragovic ]]

[[Tushaar bhatt|Tushaar bhatt ]]

[[Jose Pabon Andrade|Jose Pabon Andrade ]]

Fellow:Vincent Jeltsch

2019-10-20T19:37:56Z

JosePabon:

<span id="docs-internal-guid-b64d0ee2-7fff-7b70-fa72-0df045561949"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vincent Jeltsch is a University Innovation Fellow candidate and an undergraduate student studying Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Vincent grew up in a small village in the south of Munich, close to the Alps. After two years of gaining practical experience by founding his own startup company, Vincent decided to pursue a degree at TUM to strengthen his technical abilities and understanding. It was at TUM where he first stumbled upon the University Innovation Fellows program.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-b64d0ee2-7fff-7b70-fa72-0df045561949"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While studying at TUM, Vincent spends a lot of time on side projects and extracurricular activities. He is an active member of TEG | the entrepreneurial group e.V., a student organisation for students interested in gaining practical experience with entrepreneurship. Vincent also has a working student job as a software developer at a small software agency based in Munich. On the weekends Vincent runs a small makerspace for teenagers, called KlecksX, aiming to enable them to be creative with technology. Together with mentors the teens build robots, video games and anything else they can imagine.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-b64d0ee2-7fff-7b70-fa72-0df045561949"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vincent wanted to be an inventor ever since his youth. At the age of 15, while spending a year abroad in Vancouver (Canada), Vincent started teaching himself how to program, with the goal of building his own video games. From there on, his friends and him started building multiple mobile apps and other projects during their high school years. This background built up Vincents strong believe, that anyone can teach themselves how to build things. At the Technical University of Munich, Vincents goal is to give students more opportunities build things themselves and gain practical experience.</span></span>
<div><br/></div><div>Written By:''Vincent Jeltsch''</div>

== Related Links<br/> ==

[[Technische Universität München|Technische Universität München ]]

'''University Innovation Fellows'''

[[Dennis Pötter|Dennis Pötter ]]

[[Srdjan Dragovic|Srdjan Dragovic ]]

[[Tushaar bhatt|Tushaar bhatt ]]

[[Jose Pabon Andrade|Jose Pabon Andrade ]]

School:Technische Universität München

2019-10-20T19:36:19Z

JosePabon:

== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is known as the entrepreneurial university in Germany with a focus on excellent research, teaching, interdisciplinary education and the active promotion of students.<br/>The TUM provides a wide range of innovative courses and lectures such as “Principles of Entrepreneurship” and “Leadership by motivation” to promote collegiate access to entrepreneurial spirit. Although those events are organized by different faculties, all students are allowed to be part of it.<br/>There are also extracurricular events which are organized by the university itself such as Hackathons, Makeathons, Design sprints, Science hack, etc.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The TUM has founded a scholarship program called “Junge Akademie” [Young Academy] as an extracurricular possibility for motivated students.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">With the UnternehmerTUM the Technical University of Munich has its own Center for Innovation and Business Creation. The UnternehmerTUM offers an entrepreneurship scholarship called “Manage&More” to actively support 20 committed students each term faced with challenges from economy and industry.<br/>Moreover the UnternehmerTUM provides a free start-up consulting with fully-founded advice and active practical assistance in all major fields.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Technical University of Munich grants students a two-term study break to realize their own entrepreneurial vision and even supports applications for external start-up grants like EXIST (a support programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy for university-based business start-ups).</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Technical University of Munich is subdivided into 15 different faculties. The university encourages the individual faculties to promote innovation in their own specific way. Therefore the TUM installed one “Gründungsbotschafter” [entrepreneurship ambassador] in each faculty who shall sensitize and motivate students and scientists and share important information about entrepreneurship.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The faculties are interconnected through different interdisciplinary institutions such as the Munich Center for Technology in Society, the Center for Digital Technology and Management and the UnternehmerTUM. Those institutions offer numerous events, courses and programs for all students at TUM. An example is the IdeAward where students and scientists may get up to 15.000€ for their university-based start-up.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">''"Cooperation with industry stimulates the education and introduces the future specialists to technically relevant missions." <br/>– Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang A. Herrmann, President of the Technical University of Munich''</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The TUM has a specialized institution for technology transfer called the TUM Office for Research and Innovation (TUM ForTe). The TUM ForTe provides different services concerning patents and licenses e.g. personal consulting for investors, information on industrial property rights and the identification of patentable research results. In collaboration with Bayerische Patentallianz GmbH [Bavarian Patent Alliance] the TUM ForTe also provides filling of a patent application by TUM, financing, coordination and monitoring of the patenting process and commercialization of the invention.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">With TUMentrepreneurship TUM ForTe supports the student’s applications for public scholarships and sponsorships.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The technology transfer is strongly connected with third-party funds between TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute and different parts of industry.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== Facilitating university-industry collaboration ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Technical University of Munich traditionally has a close relationship to industry. Therefore the university has installed framework contracts with important companies such as Audi, Siemens and BMW. In the process of collaboration the TUM Office for Research and Innovation (TUM ForTe) is the first point of contact and the central coordinating body for any form of cooperation between the business and research sectors, research funding support and technology transfer at TUM.<br/>Nevertheless chairs and institutes in different faculties also independently get in touch with the industry and develop projects linked to courses. The TUM also allows industry to promote their own programs in the university, so that students may get in touch with the companies. In case the collaboration between students and industry deepens the TUM provides different sample contracts e.g. for internships, final thesis, etc.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Technical University of Munich focuses on four core technologies: Medical technology, clean tech, informatics and information and communication technology. Therefore the TUM is engaging with local, national and international development efforts and has partner universities and companies all over the world.<br/>Especially in Germany the TUM accelerates economic development. Each year 70-80 TUM-based high-tech start-ups come into the market. All of the start-ups are high-tech companies and were accompanied from the idea to the final certification.</p>
== Strategic Priorities ==

=== Project #1 - MakeADay (by Jose) ===
<div style="text-align: justify;">MakeADay is a one-day-workshop for students from all study programs at TUM. Students get together and meet people from different disciplines to solve problems by coming up with ideas and building prototypes. This would serve as a “teaser trailer” to a larger spectrum of Design-Thinking-based courses already existing at TUM (Think.Make.Start., Design Thinking Lab, etc.). The idea is to expose students to I&E and allow them to try it in a non-binding setting, where they can have fun and meet other people. Given that TUM has different campuses spread around the city, an event of this kind could be hosted many times during the semester around all available campuses, so that no student gets left behind in the road to discover I&E. </div>
==== Next Steps ====

#Back to the lab: '''Refine the audience '''→ Feedback from the test phase showed that people see a different added value depending on how much previous experience they have (People with prior I&E Knowledge were interested in taking part in this event and knew/had taken part in the ones existing at TUM already, Freshmen with no experience on the field focused on the benefit of getting to know more people)
#'''Define '''a '''Value Proposition''' and '''Purpose '''for the course regarding the target audience
#Plan activities according to the intended purpose (what is the target audience’s take home message)
#Pretotype of the event: Quick and dirty first event, low fidelity, low cost
#Set and measure indicators to check success of intended purpose
##If target not met: Back to the Lab
##If target met: Go for it (Plan a HD-Version of it)

==== Strategic Priorities ====

#Define target audience
#Define purpose
#Define activities 
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=== Project #2 - PlayWithX (by Vincent) ===
<div style="text-align: justify;">PlayWithX is a regular meetup format for freshmen students at TUM. Students meet and play together with cool technology. This gives each of them the opportunity, to get to know new people from all faculties. At the same time they can be creative and learn basic electronics, programming and other tech skills. No prior skills are required.</div>
==== Next Steps ====

#Do more interviews to sharpen the value proposition.<br/>Why? We learned that the social aspect is the most important for freshmen. Maybe other, less technical forms of play are more important to them
#Answering funding questions: How could this be held regularly? How much would it cost?
#Testing with an actual first meetup

==== Strategic Priorities ====
<div style="text-align: justify;">'''Sharpen value proposition'''</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gaining more understanding of value proposition freshmen are looking for (since it changed after the interviews)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'''Ressource planning'''</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Estimating required ressources (instructors? tools & materials, rooms, marketing & exposure) & figuring out where to get them from.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'''Real prototype meetup'''</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To get a grasp on whether or not this works in real life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'''Designing a recurrent model'''</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How frequently should this happen? Only in winter semesters when there are freshmen? Who will manage these meetups?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'''Acquiring responsible party and necessary funds for recurrent model'''</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who will manage this in the long run? Will it be future UIF teams? Who will pay for material?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div>
=== Project #3 - P2PTUM (by Tushaar) ===
<div style="text-align: justify;">P2PTUM is a Peer-to-Peer learning platform focused on sharing practical technical skills. Here students who have extensive knowledge in a specific practical technical field (e.g. Python programming for NLP or rapid prototyping in CAD with 3D printers) share their knowledge with a group of students either in in person workshops or an online course.</div>
==== Next Steps ====

*Share link with tracking in order to receive tracking to quantitatively measure response
*Survey students about their interest in taking and owning workshops
*check with administration if courses can be integrated into curriculum across faculty

==== Strategic Priorities ====

#Find strategic partner companies: Microsoft, Google, Amazon… all these companies could be interesting partners for the P2P platform for providing content, resources and financial support
#Integrate into existing processes: How can we integrate into existing learning infrastructure (Moodle)? How can we get ECTS (credits) for students particiapting and teaching? 
#Define roll out roadmap: Who has to be involved when?

=== Project #4 - TUM-ucation (by Dennis) ===
<div style="text-align: justify;">TUMucation is a user-friendly strategic online database of open TUM courses and programs that offers an intuitive choice suitable for the students. The website should also provide livestreams of accessible e-lectures and recommendations of certain events.</div>
==== Next Steps ====

#Investigation of technical requirements and regulations concerning university.
#Collecting data of open TUM courses and programs. Interconnecting with faculties and institutions to include as much data as possible. 
#Design a functional TUM-intern webpage based on the database generated in step 2. 
#Run beta test with students and stakeholders. 
#Implementation of minor improvements and finishing of the product.

==== Strategic Priorities ====

#'''Simple '''- It should not be complicated to find interesting courses. 
#'''Interdisciplinary '''- Open courses should be visited by everyone who is interested in it. 
#'''Inspiring '''- Have the courage to try something new, that is the only way to discover hidden interests. 
#'''Connecting people '''- By visiting different courses you have the chance to get to know new people and also learn from them. 

=== Project #5 - TUM Idea Days (by Srdjan) ===
<div style="text-align: justify;">''TUM needs a non committal, broadly accessible and student-friendly exposure to I&E''</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the problems we discovered in our Canvas was the lack of unbinding exposure of the opportunities and resources our university offers on the field of I&E. While the TUM already has a great pool of resources, exposure is improvable. The TUM Idea Days offer a possibility for students and school kids to explore I&E at TUM in an unbinding fashion and the TUM to make their resources more accessible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'''TUM Idea Days'''</div>
*The fair has events for every step of the I&E categories (Discover, Learn, Experiment, Pursue, Spin-Out)
*'''What is the goal?''' Exite schoolkids and students to discover their own innovative and entrepreneurial mindset!
*'''What is the focus?''' Discover, Learn and Experiment 
*'''Who is the target audience?''' Everyone! The fair is for school-kids and their parents, freshman and seniors students
*'''What else?''' Food, Drinks and a beer garden. Live Music by students, big acts in the evening

==== Next Steps ====

#'''Present Concept to the TUM Taskforce: '''Bring the stakeholders of I&E together and present the concept
#'''Call the Avengers: '''Bring together the team, who will organise the event.
#'''Adjust the Concept:''' Iterate the concept, promote the preliminary event. Get reliable number of expected visitors. Involve students wishes concerning content.
#'''Start Looking:'''
##Lecturers for the Presentations
##Startups for the Workshops
##Bands and DJs for the Music
##Food and Drinks
#'''Promotion:''' Promote the event on social media, TUM Newsletters, mouth propaganda
#'''Hold the Event: '''“Presenting: First TUM Idea Days”
#'''Reflect & Iterate'''

==== Strategic Priorities ====

#'''Quality content''' → You only get one shot for the first impression
#'''Make it accessible for everyone:''' Everyone visiting should find something interesting.
#'''Involve the Students:''' What content do they want? Where are the biggest gaps? What did we miss?
#'''Stay in touch with the Stakeholders at TUM:''' Periodical updates on the progress
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'''University Innovation Fellows'''

[[Vincent Jeltsch|Vincent Jeltsch ]]

[[Dennis Pötter|Dennis Pötter ]]

[[Srdjan Dragovic|Srdjan Dragovic ]]

[[Tushaar bhatt|Tushaar bhatt ]]

[[Jose Pabon Andrade|Jose Pabon Andrade ]]

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Fellow:Jose Pabon Andrade

2019-10-17T20:20:42Z

JosePabon:

<div>[[File:Prototyping JosePabon.jpg|border|left|Prototyping JosePabon.jpg]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Jose Pabon Andrade is a University Innovation Felllow and graduate student studying Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His focuses include Prototyping and Product Development. Jose is originally from Quito, Ecuador, where he lived until 2013 when he moved to Munich, Germany to start his studies. There he had the chance to meet people with different backgrounds and perspectives about how to make an impact on society, which led him to pursue an interdisciplinary Master's degree at the same university, where he was exposed to Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the University Innovation Fellows.</div><div><br/></div><div>At TUM, Jose has worked as a graduate assistant for TUM's I&E course Think.Make.Start., a two-week Design Thinking Experience, where students develop their own ideas into functional prototypes. Here he applies his knowledge from the two master's degrees he's pursing to guide students during the process from idea to product. Jose is happy to help anyone, advising students who want to build a brand identity for their freshly made startup to wearing furniture around when a friend is moving.</div><div><br/></div><div>Jose did not discover I&E from a very young age, but ever since he was exposed to it at TUM, Jose has kept searching for ways to get more involved with this topic and learn how to teach it to other students. It was there that he discovered his passion for teaching and knew it was the way to realize his vision of developing an entrepreneurial mindset in his home country to achieve social justice. </div>
[[Category:Student Contributor|Student_Contributor]]

Fellow:Jose Pabon Andrade

2019-10-17T20:14:37Z

JosePabon:

<div>[[File:Prototyping JosePabon.jpg|thumb|none|Prototyping JosePabon.jpg]]<br/></div><div>Jose Pabon Andrade is a University Innovation Felllow and graduate student studying Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His focuses include Prototyping and Product Development. Jose is originally from Quito, Ecuador, where he lived until 2013 when he moved to Munich, Germany to start his studies. There he had the chance to meet people with different backgrounds and perspectives about how to make an impact on society, which led him to pursue an interdisciplinary Master's degree at the same university, where he was exposed to Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the University Innovation Fellows.</div><div><br/></div><div>At TUM, Jose has worked as a graduate assistant for TUM's I&E course Think.Make.Start., a two-week Design Thinking Experience, where students develop their own ideas into functional prototypes. Here he applies his knowledge from the two master's degrees he's pursing to guide students during the process from idea to product. Jose is happy to help anyone, advising students who want to build a brand identity for their freshly made startup to wearing furniture around when a friend is moving.</div><div><br/></div><div>Jose did not discover I&E from a very young age, but ever since he was exposed to it at TUM, Jose has kept searching for ways to get more involved with this topic and learn how to teach it to other students. It was there that he discovered his passion for teaching and knew it was the way to realize his vision of developing an entrepreneurial mindset in his home country to achieve social justice. </div>
[[Category:Student Contributor|Student_Contributor]]

Fellow:Jose Pabon Andrade

2019-10-17T20:10:16Z

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<div>[[File:Prototyping JosePabon.jpg|thumb|Prototyping JosePabon.jpg]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Jose Pabon Andrade is a University Innovation Felllow and graduate student studying Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His focuses include Prototyping and Product Development. Jose is originally from Quito, Ecuador, where he lived until 2013 when he moved to Munich, Germany to start his studies. There he had the chance to meet people with different backgrounds and perspectives about how to make an impact on society, which led him to pursue an interdisciplinary Master's degree at the same university, where he was exposed to Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the University Innovation Fellows.</div><div><br/></div><div>At TUM, Jose has worked as a graduate assistant for TUM's I&E course Think.Make.Start., a two-week Design Thinking Experience, where students develop their own ideas into functional prototypes. Here he applies his knowledge from the two master's degrees he's pursing to guide students</div><div>during the process from idea to product. Jose is happy to help anyone, advising students who want to build a brand identity for their freshly made startup to wearing furniture around when a friend is moving.</div><div><br/></div><div>Jose did not discover I&E from a very young age. But ever since he was exposed to it at TUM, Jose has kept searching for ways to get more involved with this topic and learn how to teach it to other students. It was there that he discovered his passion for teaching and knew it was the way to realize his vision of developing an entrepreneurial mindset in his home country to achieve social justice. </div>
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File:Prototyping JosePabon.jpg

2019-10-17T20:06:15Z

JosePabon: