Fellow:Satwik Kritika Krishna

2019-10-29T11:00:17Z

ThyneS:

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<div>Satwik is an University Innovation Fellows Candidate for the cohort 2019. He is enrolled in Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Academy of Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences. Furthermore, he is also a part of Entrepreneurship and Business Development track in Honours programme of the University. </div><div><br/></div><div>His academic interests are Maths and Liberal Arts. He wants to combine the domains to look at issues in different perspectives. He tries to solve social problems using technological solutions. He loves working in a team and enjoys managing the team dynamincs. </div><div><br/></div><div>His personal interests include football (European), plays guitar and reading books. He further enjoys using softwares like Photoshop and Illustrator to edit random stuff. </div><div><br/></div><div>
== Related Links ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente University of Twente Wiki]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]</p></div><p style="text-align: right;"></p>

Fellow:Thyne Scholte

2019-10-17T09:24:29Z

ThyneS:

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Thyne Scholte is a University Innovation Fellow candidate at the University of Twente (UT). He is currently in the second year of his study, Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (BSc). While Thyne was born in the Netherlands he has lived abroad a majority of his life in Cameroon, Rwanda, and Yemen. Thyne focuses on the fields of Entrepreneurship and Computer Science. At the UT he is also taking an honors course in Processes of Change and plays competitive basketball. 

Thyne is highly interested in anything technology related especially in the recent developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In his second semester he together with a group of students built a plan on the possible implementation of an artificially intelligent system into the dutch electrical grid to increase both its efficiency and resilience. 

He is currently working on his first project in UIF by improving the UT Campus App to advertise events that create unity. 

== Related Links ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente Website]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente University of Twente Wiki]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]</p>

Fellow:Thyne Scholte

2019-10-17T07:59:08Z

ThyneS:

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Thyne Scholte is a University Innovation Fellow candidate at the University of Twente (UT). He is currently in the second year of his study, Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (BSc). While Thyne was born in the Netherlands he has lived abroad his entire life in Cameroon, Rwanda, and Yemen. Thyne focuses on the fields of Entrepreneurship and Computer Science. At the UT he is also taking an honors course in Processes of Change and plays competitive basketball. 

Thyne is highly interested in anything technology related especially in the recent developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In his second semester he together with a group of students built a plan on the possible implementation of an artificially intelligent system into the dutch electrical grid to increase both its efficiency and resilience. 

He is currently working on his first project in UIF by improving the UT Campus App to advertise events that create unity. 

== Related Links ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente Website]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente University of Twente Wiki]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]</p>

Fellow:Thyne Scholte

2019-10-15T09:34:42Z

ThyneS:

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Thyne Scholte is a University Innovation Fellow candidate at the University of Twente (UT). He is currently in the second year of his study, Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (BSc). While Thyne was born in the Netherlands he has lived abroad his entire life in Cameroon, Rwanda, and Yemen. Thyne focuses on the fields of Entrepreneurship and Computer Science. At the UT he is also taking an honors course in Processes of Change and plays competitive basketball. 

Thyne Scholte is highly interested in anything technology related especially in the recent developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In his second semester he together with a group of students built a plan on the possible implementation of an artificially intelligent system into the dutch electrical grid to increase both its efficiency and resilience. 

He is currently working on his first project in UIF by improving the UT Campus App to advertise events that create unity. 

== Related Links ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente Website]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente University of Twente Wiki]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]</p>

2019-10-15T09:25:54Z

ThyneS:

Fellow:Thyne Scholte

2019-10-15T09:24:42Z

ThyneS:

Thyne Schote is a University Innovation Fellow candidate at the University of Twente (UT). He is currently in the second year of his study, Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (BSc). While Thyne was born in the Netherlands he has lived aboad his entire life in Cameroon, Rwanda and Yemen. Thyne focuses on the fields of Entrepreneurship and Computer Science. At the UT he is also taking an honours course in Processes of Change and plays competitive basketball. 

Thyne Scholte is highly intrested in anything technology related especially in the recent developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In his second semester he toghether with a group of students built a plan on the possible implementation of an artificially intelligent system into the dutch electrical grid to increase both its efficiency and resilience. 

He is currently working on his first project in UIF by improving the UT Campus App to advertise events that create unity. 

Priorities:University of Twente Student Priorities

2019-10-10T18:59:56Z

ThyneS:

== Spring 2016 Priorities ==

=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Project_Pitch_Video">Project Pitch Video Spring 2016</span><br/> ===

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The initial exposure of young students towards the entrepreneurial mindset and environment is not particularly well developed as compared to the other aspects in the Twente area.

This finding was discussed and reaffirmed by the other parties present during our first stakeholder meeting.

Based on this experience the discussion quickly zoomed in on the aspect of personal development that promotes a more experimental, hands-on, entrepreneurial and proactive mindset.

Essentially asking the question of how do we get students to…

  * think about why they are here!

  * develop a personal identity.

  * set their own personal goals.

  * select their assignments and work on these goals.

  * develop their own moral compass.

  * try something new more often.

  * stimulate their own curiosity.

…and develop these ideas early enough so they can pick courses in an intentional and goal oriented way.

The new education system introduced in 2013 the Twente Education Model. Already tried to address these aspects. However, due to the inherent inertia of tutors and tutees, these ideas still need more time to come full fruition. In that way, additional support to could support these concepts.

The team realized that while there are many facilities available for personal self-development, start-up funding and extracurricular content like the Honours Program many students don’t know about them and even worse do not care to know about them.

It seemed like an imperative focus for this UIF-Team to stimulate the personal development of young students so that the available resources are used more effectively.

Furthermore, it is necessary to have a positive and inclusive environment available on campus. The DesignLab as it stands today fulfills this role and will likely be a fitting and great place from which the UIF program should operate.

The aspects above can be summarized by 4 simple goals.

            1. Keep spreading the ideas and find mentors that can help with that.

            2. A need for self-development!

            3. Entrepreneurship needs to be valued by staff and students alike.

            4. The necessity of an inclusive environment for all the points above.

=== Mid-term and long-term goals ===
<div>The University Innovation fellows present in Twente needs to be established. (Mid 2017) While there are many students run organizations none of them work in this context. Therefore, it is very important that the presence of the UIF committee and students are consistent and well established across the various parties across campus.</div><div>The first project associated with this is to hold launch event(s) and brainstorm sessions with various parties, in order to get our name out there.</div><div>Subsequent to this initial goal the UIF-Twente team needs to become a well-trusted institution on campus. Essentially, requiring the development of a UIF-Twente brand. This aspect is very important to assure the future effectiveness of this project. It is very difficult to determine a fixed milestone for this project, however, within one and a half years (early 2018) UIF should be a well-established name.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
=== Subsequent steps to establish a students self-development as the focus of the UIF program<br/> ===
<div>In the first brainstorm session, the necessity for support for early’s students self-development was established.</div><div>Establishing a space a center and sanctuary for self-development. </div><div><br/></div><div>One approach towards stimulating self-development is offering students feedback and a safe place within which to receive this feedback. The DesignLab at this university could fulfill this function admirably. The goal is to establish this space connected to an easy and repetitive schedule with the ideas of self-driven learning as well as an ethical and moral understanding of once impact. No later than February 2017 should relate events start taking place in the DesignLab. This should allow students to get in touch with the program by the end of the academic year(July 2017).</div><div><br/></div>
== Spring 2017 Priorities ==

=== Project Pitch Video Spring 2017<br/> ===

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The collaboration between the university as an organization and the university as a research facility is at the moment not as good as it could be. Many resources such as the knowledge and skills of students are not considered. The university is rather seeking help for the realizations of inside projects from outside companies and is therefore not using the talent that is right in front of them.

The first priority of the spring 2017 fellows is therefore to enhance the collaboration between different UT organizations and bring them into contact with the students.

The main goals we try to reach are:

*Awareness about all the possibilities the University holds for its students, researchers and staff, especially in areas of self-development, where students take control of their skillset development.

*Collaboration between staff, students and research in terms of resources as well as in term of skills and knowledge.

*Create an atmosphere where it feels natural for university to have many on-site projects run by students. A university where facilities and events are run by students can take real pride in their entrepreunerial students.

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=== Steps improve collaboration and communication within UT organizations, students, researchers and staff members<br/> ===
<div>
In order to create an atmosphere of greater collaboration between the different members of the University we would like to propose different projects.

*Week of possibilities

*Student pool

*Add paragraph to Newsletter about board decisions and use platform such as Loomio so that students can add their opinions and suggestions.

==== Week of Possibilities ====

Our first priority in order to face the problem of collaboration we encountered during our analysis of the campus is to set up a week of possibilities to show all different parties of the university what possibilities in terms of collaboration they have. The idea is to introduce all different organizations of the university and what this organization can provide in terms of resources and knowledge or skills. It is all about increasing the awareness of all members of the university about what different facilities and organizations the university has to offer.

==== Student Pool ====

Our second priority will be to set up a pool of students, where students can indicate what kind of skills and education they have. By signing up for that student pool they agree to be approachable for university intern project that otherwise would have been given to companies. The basic idea is to use the talent of students and give them real world problems on which they can work. Students can make valuable work experiences and the university can save money by first asking students to look for a solution. Students will be paid for working on the project. In order to avoid the problem of unreliability of students fixed deadlines will be discussed and the university can decide at every step to outsource the project when they have the feeling that the students are not able to finish the project correctly or on time.

==== News of UT board ====

Our final priority would be to focus on the lack of communication and collaboration between the board of the university and the students and staff. We would like to have discussion with the UT news and the board about possibly adding a paragraph on the board’s decisions to the end of the monthly student newsletter. We would then like to set up a page on a platform such as loomio, for us to reiterate what that paragraph states and allows students to provide their opinions and suggestions. This format of a pool could enable the board to obtain a more all-encompassing view of what the student body thinks.
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== <span class="mw-headline" id="Spring_2016_Priorities">Fall 2017 Priorities</span> ==
<div><div>University of Twente has an exceptionally excellent innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem. The previous cohort has recognized a lack of awareness of all available opportunities. We still see this as the main point of improvement, and therefore strive to increase awareness, following our predecessors. University of Twente is '''ambitious'''. It wants to be a "European Innovation Hub". An internationally oriented university. Therefore our main focus is working towards a better ''Integration of internationals at the University of Twente''. Our goal is to make the UT a more welcome and comfortable place for them. </div><div><br/></div><div>The main goals we try to reach are:<br/></div>
*<div><span>En</span>hance the collaboration between Dutch and international students, bring them together and create an welcoming and comfortable atmosphere for them.</div>
*<div>Increase the rate of international students in extracurricular activities</div>
*<div>Raise awareness to about the wide variety of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities </div>
<div><br/></div></div>
=== Prototypes for better integration of internationals<br/> ===

We would like to propose 4 projects to contribute to these goals:
<div>
==== Buddy Programme ====

The buddy programme is introduced to close the gap between culture and study associations that are existing on campus. At the moment, those associations are not cooperating. In order to change this and create a connection between the international and Dutch students in those associations, the buddy programme is introduced. Here, the associations are meant to unite their forces to organize an event together where students come together, meet, connect and share insights.

Once a year, one study and one culture association are going to be picked randomly. Those are meant to work together towards a workshop/ event/ meetup/ drinks. Thereby, they are free to cooperate with the University’s culture department which can support the event with resources.

At the day of the event, the students have the opportunity to connect and meet up. This will get the associations and their members together and therefore reach out to more students uniting internationals and Dutch students.

==== Add-on to Campus App<br/> ====

The Campus app is a newly released app about the University of Twente. It has many features, such as viewing your timetable, exploring the campus and much more. However, it also has many opportunities. The University of Twente is a very innovative and entrepreneurial university. However, these opportunities are often invisible for many students. This app could make a difference in the visibility of opportunities at the University of Twente.

The idea of this prototype is to add innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities in the ‘explore’ section of the UT Campus app. At the moment there are only options such as Parking, Food & Drinks, Housing, Research, and Education. We want to add the ‘Innovation’ and ‘Entrepreneurial’ sections under Explore. So that students can see what they are and where they are. Students can also see events that are hosted by Innovative and Entrepreneurial organizations and add those to their interests.
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==== DesignLab and Studium Generale ====

When looking at the engagement of students and possibilities to improve that, we looked at two major event hosting organizations on campus. DeisngLab is the makerspace at the University of Twente. Aside from that, it also hosts many events. Studium Generale is located almost at the opposite end of the university, and mostly organizes lectures, sometimes in cooperation with other study associations.

If you could combine these two organizations to organize a free-food event together, you would combine audiences and grab students attention with free food. This would cause students to come to these events, in which you can raise awareness of the DesignLab for example, and thus stimulate engagement.
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==== Phased Studying for Entrepreneurs ====

Provide students the possibility to work as an entrepreneur alongside their studies by allowing them to spread their study load over a longer period of time. Currently, this is only possible for students practicing top-level sports or top-level arts. By making this available for entrepreneurs as well we hope to stimulate those students to keep studying while growing their company, which fits well into the slogan of the university “The Entrepreneurial University”.

= Spring 2018 Priorities =
<div>The University of Twente has an incredible amount of I&E resources available and a rich I&E ecosystem, but we quickly found a bottleneck: Students either don’t know that they exist or the I&E components of the ecosystem are not interconnected enough. We want to find ways to get people, ideas and I&E champions to get connected–across study programs, organizations and projects. We want to get more people to interact with the facilities on campus and get a stronger flow of ideas going. In addition, we want to enable university facilities/blocks/divisions (study programs, international office, student services, scholarship office etc.) to view themselves as holistic services (and not silos), and design themselves using insights from user-centered service design.</div><div>So, our strategic priorities lie along the lines of:</div>
*Improving the interconnectivity of and awareness about the I&E ecosystem of the University of Twente.
*Improving I&E integration with the study programs of non-business majors.
*Empowering various relevant university divisions to design themselves from a systemic perspective that removes silos and creates holistic experiences for their users. 
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== Prototypes of quick wins complementing our strategic priorities ==

=== A one-stop solution for curated, syncable calendars of UTwente  ===

==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problems</span></span> ====
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sheer number of events at the University of Twente.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The diverse, widespread platforms, social media and website pages for publishing those events.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lack of any option for real-time synchronization between student calendars and calendars of event organizers.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The above points leading to a lack of awareness of events and opportunities at the UT, and also a negative impact on the interconnectedness of the I&E ecosystem of the university.  </span></span></li>
</ul>

==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution</span></span> ====

<span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating a single, organized website of curated calendars that can be synced with existing infrastructure of google calendars that students are already familiar with and use. The websites would be categorized based on organizers (DesignLab, Novel-T, Library, Company Fairs, Week of Inspiration etc.) and on various event categories (entrepreneurial events, social events, cultural events etc.). Interested event organizers can send their subscribable google calendars to be added to the website’s calendar collection.</span></span></span>
<div><br/></div>
=== Idea Tinder ===

==== The need ====
<div>As the University of Twente highly values entrepreneurship and innovation, ideation is no problem</div><div>for the UT’s students. Students come up with new ideas throughout their studies, extracurricular</div><div>activities on campus or in their free time. All the facilities allow a great possibility of realising the</div><div>ideas. However, an idea only the creator is enthusiastic about, will not reach many people.</div><div>Therefore, feedback is essential not only throughout the process of the idea development but also</div><div>in the early stages. The students need a platform where they can easily share their ideas and get</div><div>feedback on them. It offers the ideator the valuable feedback they need of potential customers.</div>
==== The value ====

*Ideators get early on feedback on their ideas → allows them to assess potential of idea
*Gives overview of what ideas are developing around I&E network of University of Twente
*Ideas can be ranked according to popularity → quick overview of most popular ideas
*By sharing ideas people can get in touch with new fresh ideas they like → build teams

=== Interactive map of campus facilities ===
<div>On the campus of the University of Twente there are a lot of organizations, companies, and facilities. Using an interactive map of the campus, we would like to create a clear overview of all possibilities on campus. The map should be well integrated so all information students need is provided in one tool. The University of Twente has recently released a campus app where you can find a map of the campus. </div><div>The idea of this prototype is to extend the information with companies and services on campus. Furthermore, it should be possible to find contact details in the map.</div><div><br/></div>
=== Student of the week ===

To allow students to connect on a more personal level and get people from different friend groups talking, we'd like to introduce a student of the week programme. We'll start testing it within study associations. The student of the week will give a student a platform to talk about their ideas, hobbies or projects he's currently working on. This will be in the form of an interview, which is published online and printed in the room of the study association. Hopefully we can get a committee set up that likes to work on these stories. It will lower the bar for conversation, get ideas flowing and creates a story behind the unfamiliair faces you see walking in the hallway. It creates a more personal atmosphere on campus.

= '''Fall 2018 Priorities'''<br/> =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The University of Twente has a highly developed innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem that offers the students a variety of facilities. Students have an unlimited amount of opportunities to act innovative and entrepreneurial next to their study. However, we discovered during our training that the innovative and entrepreneurial aspect is not completely integrated within the structure of the studies itself. Students have to stick to a fixed time and course schedule and therefore have rarely a chance to select a course themselves that is aimed at their personal interests. Therefore, we aim at making the study structure more flexible for students to offer them more opportunities within their curricular.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our main goals are:</span>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Provide the students more flexibility within their curricular to get in contact with or to deepen their knowledge about different fields of expertise</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Increase the amount of courses available for UT students at the UT as well as at partner universities</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Making it possible for all students to learn more about innovation and entrepreneurship within their study</span></li>
</ul>

<br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To achieve these goals, we would like to propose the following 3 solutions:</span>

<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Student teams:</span></span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The Univeristy of Twente is a university where entrepeneurship and extra curriculum activities are supported. Because of this, a lot of student teams exist. These teams are working on solar cars, hydrogen cars, super bikes, drones, soccer robots and way more. There is a lot of overlap with many courses and the students learn also way more from different disciplines. It's also a good way to bring theory to practice. We want to enable students to get credits for these activities so that it's more attractive to enjoy this great experience and don't having to worry about the default program.</span>

<br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Online based learning</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">When courses collide or for any other reason you aren’t able to follow the course, online based learning would be a great solution. With lectures, exercises and extra material online, the student is given the option to follow a specific course whenever the time is right. It makes it possible for students to follow courses of other faculties where they don’t take each others timetable into account.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Interdisciplinary collaboration between universities and faculties on TEM projects:</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">TEM education model includes a project for each module at University of Twente. With the project students form a team and do the project throughout the module. However, with the exception of few cases, the project groups are always within the same cohort of the study. Our university want to promote collaboration of different disciplines, yet something as essential as TEM projects are excluded from that ideal in most cases.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">What if the 3 institutions (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, University of Twente, and Aki ArtEZ Art Academy) within the city of Enschede agreed on a collaboration? It would give students flexibility on their focus, going more on technical, or art direction. All three institutions are already contributing to Gogbot festival (without joint effort). A collaboration of this case can be a benchmark on to see if these institutions can work together.</span>

<div>A infographic of our solutions can be found here: [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A0HMcCJJKIy3PbYW9bkZSWPiodoCuDrY https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A0HMcCJJKIy3PbYW9bkZSWPiodoCuDrY]<br/></div>

= '''Fall 2019 Priorities'''<br/> =

<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralized Information Platform</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">Bursting the Bubble</span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>
<div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-024b7c0c-7fff-0021-e337-a184f1715e26"><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;">To ensure that this platform comes alive, information about cultural activities should be collected, relations with local shops, museums and other places should be established, an initial platform should be established with some general information, and do some additional research on what students need to start bursting their own bubble.</span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Societal Programs'''</span></font>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a need for more societal-focused programs at the University of Twente. There are two programs that we thought would help the University to evolve its education and awareness. The first program focuses on societal entrepreneurship and the second program focuses on solving real-life issues in countries using technological solutions. </span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">UIF World</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6d39b3f5-7fff-a3d6-33e1-c0bd4168acf1"><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;">Right now our university has participated for three years in the UIF program and the fellows before us used this opportunity to have a huge positive impact on our landscape through various projects. Some projects validated little but important changes and others had an enormous outreach. Although fellows put a lot of effort into these different projects, the UIF program is not commonly known under students. We believe that if we represent the voice of students in the conversation of changing our education, students should at least know about us and be able to connect to us so that they feel seriously represented. Moreover, spreading awareness about the power students have to change their own environment, might inspire them to validate their own change.</span></span>
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<br/><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Sustainability Programs'''</span></font>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a0ef99-7fff-3b93-c8d5-201986133010"><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;">The University of Twente has only recently begun setting up a ‘Green Office’ - a centralized platform to monitor, support and enable sustainability projects. While the collaborative spirit and founding of sustainability as a theme is set up, the Green Office does not provide any specific context for sustainability initiatives.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a0ef99-7fff-3b93-c8d5-201986133010"><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;">We will further extend sustainability efforts through collaborative education and a strong regional network, which in the long term should lead to more entrepreneurial opportunities in relation to the topic of sustainability. The focus here is on students who, within their education, want to act on their ideas with support from experts and guidance from industry players.</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Potential ways of doing so would include, but is not limited, to online courses and sustainability-themed honors tracks. What if students could opt to participate in these sustainability-themed tracks and funnel their ambitions into real cases? What if student groups could be supported by experts and mentors, to increase the potential for entrepreneurial spin-offs? Students should be armed with the right tools and networks to apply their creativity to sustainability-related projects.</span>
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= Related Links =

=== University Website ===

[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente]

=== Wiki pages ===

[[University of Twente|University of Twente]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente_Student_PrioritiesUniversity of Twente Student Priorities]

=== University Innovation Fellows ===

==== Fall 2016 ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

[[Jos van 't Hof|Jos van 't Hof]]

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

==== '''Spring 2017''' ====

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

[[Lennart van de Velde|Lennart van de Velde]]

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

==== '''Fall 2017''' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Sevimaktas Sevim Aktas]

[[Rianne Hagen|Rianne Hagen]]

[[Titus Venverloo|Titus Venverloo]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Wmkamerman Wim Kamerman]

==== Spring 2018 ====

[[Suhaib Aslam|Suhaib Aslam]]

[[Kaz Middelhoek|Kaz Middelhoek]]

[[Marthe Oldenhof|Marthe Oldenhof]]

[[Julian Sotscheck|Julian Sotscheck]]

==== Fall 2018 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anil_Ozen Anil Özen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anja_D%C3%B6mer Anja Dömer]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hizirwan_Salim Hizirwan Salim]

==== Candidates of Fall 2019 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alejandro_Garc%C3%ADa_Navarrete Alejandro García Navarrete]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Can_Erel Can Erel]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Edo_de_Wolf Edo de Wolf]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/GLEB_PODOROZHNYY Gleb Podorozhnyy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Haak Jessica Haak]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Lena%20marie%20assink Lena Marie Assink]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Veldman Lisa Veldman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rick_Akkerman Rick Akkerman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Satwik_Kritika_Krishna Satwik Kritika Krishna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Simon_de_Schaetzen Simon de Schaetzen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thyne_Scholte Thyne Scholte]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tra_my_nguyen Tra My Nguyen]
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[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Twente Student Priorities

2019-10-08T18:43:54Z

ThyneS:

== Spring 2016 Priorities ==

=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Project_Pitch_Video">Project Pitch Video Spring 2016</span><br/> ===

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The initial exposure of young students towards the entrepreneurial mindset and environment is not particularly well developed as compared to the other aspects in the Twente area.

This finding was discussed and reaffirmed by the other parties present during our first stakeholder meeting.

Based on this experience the discussion quickly zoomed in on the aspect of personal development that promotes a more experimental, hands-on, entrepreneurial and proactive mindset.

Essentially asking the question of how do we get students to…

  * think about why they are here!

  * develop a personal identity.

  * set their own personal goals.

  * select their assignments and work on these goals.

  * develop their own moral compass.

  * try something new more often.

  * stimulate their own curiosity.

…and develop these ideas early enough so they can pick courses in an intentional and goal oriented way.

The new education system introduced in 2013 the Twente Education Model. Already tried to address these aspects. However, due to the inherent inertia of tutors and tutees, these ideas still need more time to come full fruition. In that way, additional support to could support these concepts.

The team realized that while there are many facilities available for personal self-development, start-up funding and extracurricular content like the Honours Program many students don’t know about them and even worse do not care to know about them.

It seemed like an imperative focus for this UIF-Team to stimulate the personal development of young students so that the available resources are used more effectively.

Furthermore, it is necessary to have a positive and inclusive environment available on campus. The DesignLab as it stands today fulfills this role and will likely be a fitting and great place from which the UIF program should operate.

The aspects above can be summarized by 4 simple goals.

            1. Keep spreading the ideas and find mentors that can help with that.

            2. A need for self-development!

            3. Entrepreneurship needs to be valued by staff and students alike.

            4. The necessity of an inclusive environment for all the points above.

=== Mid-term and long-term goals ===
<div>The University Innovation fellows present in Twente needs to be established. (Mid 2017) While there are many students run organizations none of them work in this context. Therefore, it is very important that the presence of the UIF committee and students are consistent and well established across the various parties across campus.</div><div>The first project associated with this is to hold launch event(s) and brainstorm sessions with various parties, in order to get our name out there.</div><div>Subsequent to this initial goal the UIF-Twente team needs to become a well-trusted institution on campus. Essentially, requiring the development of a UIF-Twente brand. This aspect is very important to assure the future effectiveness of this project. It is very difficult to determine a fixed milestone for this project, however, within one and a half years (early 2018) UIF should be a well-established name.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
=== Subsequent steps to establish a students self-development as the focus of the UIF program<br/> ===
<div>In the first brainstorm session, the necessity for support for early’s students self-development was established.</div><div>Establishing a space a center and sanctuary for self-development. </div><div><br/></div><div>One approach towards stimulating self-development is offering students feedback and a safe place within which to receive this feedback. The DesignLab at this university could fulfill this function admirably. The goal is to establish this space connected to an easy and repetitive schedule with the ideas of self-driven learning as well as an ethical and moral understanding of once impact. No later than February 2017 should relate events start taking place in the DesignLab. This should allow students to get in touch with the program by the end of the academic year(July 2017).</div><div><br/></div>
== Spring 2017 Priorities ==

=== Project Pitch Video Spring 2017<br/> ===

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The collaboration between the university as an organization and the university as a research facility is at the moment not as good as it could be. Many resources such as the knowledge and skills of students are not considered. The university is rather seeking help for the realizations of inside projects from outside companies and is therefore not using the talent that is right in front of them.

The first priority of the spring 2017 fellows is therefore to enhance the collaboration between different UT organizations and bring them into contact with the students.

The main goals we try to reach are:

*Awareness about all the possibilities the University holds for its students, researchers and staff, especially in areas of self-development, where students take control of their skillset development.

*Collaboration between staff, students and research in terms of resources as well as in term of skills and knowledge.

*Create an atmosphere where it feels natural for university to have many on-site projects run by students. A university where facilities and events are run by students can take real pride in their entrepreunerial students.

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=== Steps improve collaboration and communication within UT organizations, students, researchers and staff members<br/> ===
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In order to create an atmosphere of greater collaboration between the different members of the University we would like to propose different projects.

*Week of possibilities

*Student pool

*Add paragraph to Newsletter about board decisions and use platform such as Loomio so that students can add their opinions and suggestions.

==== Week of Possibilities ====

Our first priority in order to face the problem of collaboration we encountered during our analysis of the campus is to set up a week of possibilities to show all different parties of the university what possibilities in terms of collaboration they have. The idea is to introduce all different organizations of the university and what this organization can provide in terms of resources and knowledge or skills. It is all about increasing the awareness of all members of the university about what different facilities and organizations the university has to offer.

==== Student Pool ====

Our second priority will be to set up a pool of students, where students can indicate what kind of skills and education they have. By signing up for that student pool they agree to be approachable for university intern project that otherwise would have been given to companies. The basic idea is to use the talent of students and give them real world problems on which they can work. Students can make valuable work experiences and the university can save money by first asking students to look for a solution. Students will be paid for working on the project. In order to avoid the problem of unreliability of students fixed deadlines will be discussed and the university can decide at every step to outsource the project when they have the feeling that the students are not able to finish the project correctly or on time.

==== News of UT board ====

Our final priority would be to focus on the lack of communication and collaboration between the board of the university and the students and staff. We would like to have discussion with the UT news and the board about possibly adding a paragraph on the board’s decisions to the end of the monthly student newsletter. We would then like to set up a page on a platform such as loomio, for us to reiterate what that paragraph states and allows students to provide their opinions and suggestions. This format of a pool could enable the board to obtain a more all-encompassing view of what the student body thinks.
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== <span class="mw-headline" id="Spring_2016_Priorities">Fall 2017 Priorities</span> ==
<div><div>University of Twente has an exceptionally excellent innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem. The previous cohort has recognized a lack of awareness of all available opportunities. We still see this as the main point of improvement, and therefore strive to increase awareness, following our predecessors. University of Twente is '''ambitious'''. It wants to be a "European Innovation Hub". An internationally oriented university. Therefore our main focus is working towards a better ''Integration of internationals at the University of Twente''. Our goal is to make the UT a more welcome and comfortable place for them. </div><div><br/></div><div>The main goals we try to reach are:<br/></div>
*<div><span>En</span>hance the collaboration between Dutch and international students, bring them together and create an welcoming and comfortable atmosphere for them.</div>
*<div>Increase the rate of international students in extracurricular activities</div>
*<div>Raise awareness to about the wide variety of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities </div>
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=== Prototypes for better integration of internationals<br/> ===

We would like to propose 4 projects to contribute to these goals:
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==== Buddy Programme ====

The buddy programme is introduced to close the gap between culture and study associations that are existing on campus. At the moment, those associations are not cooperating. In order to change this and create a connection between the international and Dutch students in those associations, the buddy programme is introduced. Here, the associations are meant to unite their forces to organize an event together where students come together, meet, connect and share insights.

Once a year, one study and one culture association are going to be picked randomly. Those are meant to work together towards a workshop/ event/ meetup/ drinks. Thereby, they are free to cooperate with the University’s culture department which can support the event with resources.

At the day of the event, the students have the opportunity to connect and meet up. This will get the associations and their members together and therefore reach out to more students uniting internationals and Dutch students.

==== Add-on to Campus App<br/> ====

The Campus app is a newly released app about the University of Twente. It has many features, such as viewing your timetable, exploring the campus and much more. However, it also has many opportunities. The University of Twente is a very innovative and entrepreneurial university. However, these opportunities are often invisible for many students. This app could make a difference in the visibility of opportunities at the University of Twente.

The idea of this prototype is to add innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities in the ‘explore’ section of the UT Campus app. At the moment there are only options such as Parking, Food & Drinks, Housing, Research, and Education. We want to add the ‘Innovation’ and ‘Entrepreneurial’ sections under Explore. So that students can see what they are and where they are. Students can also see events that are hosted by Innovative and Entrepreneurial organizations and add those to their interests.
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==== DesignLab and Studium Generale ====

When looking at the engagement of students and possibilities to improve that, we looked at two major event hosting organizations on campus. DeisngLab is the makerspace at the University of Twente. Aside from that, it also hosts many events. Studium Generale is located almost at the opposite end of the university, and mostly organizes lectures, sometimes in cooperation with other study associations.

If you could combine these two organizations to organize a free-food event together, you would combine audiences and grab students attention with free food. This would cause students to come to these events, in which you can raise awareness of the DesignLab for example, and thus stimulate engagement.
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==== Phased Studying for Entrepreneurs ====

Provide students the possibility to work as an entrepreneur alongside their studies by allowing them to spread their study load over a longer period of time. Currently, this is only possible for students practicing top-level sports or top-level arts. By making this available for entrepreneurs as well we hope to stimulate those students to keep studying while growing their company, which fits well into the slogan of the university “The Entrepreneurial University”.

= Spring 2018 Priorities =
<div>The University of Twente has an incredible amount of I&E resources available and a rich I&E ecosystem, but we quickly found a bottleneck: Students either don’t know that they exist or the I&E components of the ecosystem are not interconnected enough. We want to find ways to get people, ideas and I&E champions to get connected–across study programs, organizations and projects. We want to get more people to interact with the facilities on campus and get a stronger flow of ideas going. In addition, we want to enable university facilities/blocks/divisions (study programs, international office, student services, scholarship office etc.) to view themselves as holistic services (and not silos), and design themselves using insights from user-centered service design.</div><div>So, our strategic priorities lie along the lines of:</div>
*Improving the interconnectivity of and awareness about the I&E ecosystem of the University of Twente.
*Improving I&E integration with the study programs of non-business majors.
*Empowering various relevant university divisions to design themselves from a systemic perspective that removes silos and creates holistic experiences for their users. 
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== Prototypes of quick wins complementing our strategic priorities ==

=== A one-stop solution for curated, syncable calendars of UTwente  ===

==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problems</span></span> ====
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sheer number of events at the University of Twente.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The diverse, widespread platforms, social media and website pages for publishing those events.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lack of any option for real-time synchronization between student calendars and calendars of event organizers.</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The above points leading to a lack of awareness of events and opportunities at the UT, and also a negative impact on the interconnectedness of the I&E ecosystem of the university.  </span></span></li>
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==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution</span></span> ====

<span style="color:#696969;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9639e6b8-67b7-5e09-95d0-b107a8ff1d42"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating a single, organized website of curated calendars that can be synced with existing infrastructure of google calendars that students are already familiar with and use. The websites would be categorized based on organizers (DesignLab, Novel-T, Library, Company Fairs, Week of Inspiration etc.) and on various event categories (entrepreneurial events, social events, cultural events etc.). Interested event organizers can send their subscribable google calendars to be added to the website’s calendar collection.</span></span></span>
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=== Idea Tinder ===

==== The need ====
<div>As the University of Twente highly values entrepreneurship and innovation, ideation is no problem</div><div>for the UT’s students. Students come up with new ideas throughout their studies, extracurricular</div><div>activities on campus or in their free time. All the facilities allow a great possibility of realising the</div><div>ideas. However, an idea only the creator is enthusiastic about, will not reach many people.</div><div>Therefore, feedback is essential not only throughout the process of the idea development but also</div><div>in the early stages. The students need a platform where they can easily share their ideas and get</div><div>feedback on them. It offers the ideator the valuable feedback they need of potential customers.</div>
==== The value ====

*Ideators get early on feedback on their ideas → allows them to assess potential of idea
*Gives overview of what ideas are developing around I&E network of University of Twente
*Ideas can be ranked according to popularity → quick overview of most popular ideas
*By sharing ideas people can get in touch with new fresh ideas they like → build teams

=== Interactive map of campus facilities ===
<div>On the campus of the University of Twente there are a lot of organizations, companies, and facilities. Using an interactive map of the campus, we would like to create a clear overview of all possibilities on campus. The map should be well integrated so all information students need is provided in one tool. The University of Twente has recently released a campus app where you can find a map of the campus. </div><div>The idea of this prototype is to extend the information with companies and services on campus. Furthermore, it should be possible to find contact details in the map.</div><div><br/></div>
=== Student of the week ===

To allow students to connect on a more personal level and get people from different friend groups talking, we'd like to introduce a student of the week programme. We'll start testing it within study associations. The student of the week will give a student a platform to talk about their ideas, hobbies or projects he's currently working on. This will be in the form of an interview, which is published online and printed in the room of the study association. Hopefully we can get a committee set up that likes to work on these stories. It will lower the bar for conversation, get ideas flowing and creates a story behind the unfamiliair faces you see walking in the hallway. It creates a more personal atmosphere on campus.

= '''Fall 2018 Priorities'''<br/> =

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The University of Twente has a highly developed innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem that offers the students a variety of facilities. Students have an unlimited amount of opportunities to act innovative and entrepreneurial next to their study. However, we discovered during our training that the innovative and entrepreneurial aspect is not completely integrated within the structure of the studies itself. Students have to stick to a fixed time and course schedule and therefore have rarely a chance to select a course themselves that is aimed at their personal interests. Therefore, we aim at making the study structure more flexible for students to offer them more opportunities within their curricular.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our main goals are:</span>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Provide the students more flexibility within their curricular to get in contact with or to deepen their knowledge about different fields of expertise</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Increase the amount of courses available for UT students at the UT as well as at partner universities</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Making it possible for all students to learn more about innovation and entrepreneurship within their study</span></li>
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<br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To achieve these goals, we would like to propose the following 3 solutions:</span>

<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Student teams:</span></span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The Univeristy of Twente is a university where entrepeneurship and extra curriculum activities are supported. Because of this, a lot of student teams exist. These teams are working on solar cars, hydrogen cars, super bikes, drones, soccer robots and way more. There is a lot of overlap with many courses and the students learn also way more from different disciplines. It's also a good way to bring theory to practice. We want to enable students to get credits for these activities so that it's more attractive to enjoy this great experience and don't having to worry about the default program.</span>

<br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Online based learning</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">When courses collide or for any other reason you aren’t able to follow the course, online based learning would be a great solution. With lectures, exercises and extra material online, the student is given the option to follow a specific course whenever the time is right. It makes it possible for students to follow courses of other faculties where they don’t take each others timetable into account.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Interdisciplinary collaboration between universities and faculties on TEM projects:</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">TEM education model includes a project for each module at University of Twente. With the project students form a team and do the project throughout the module. However, with the exception of few cases, the project groups are always within the same cohort of the study. Our university want to promote collaboration of different disciplines, yet something as essential as TEM projects are excluded from that ideal in most cases.</span>

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">What if the 3 institutions (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, University of Twente, and Aki ArtEZ Art Academy) within the city of Enschede agreed on a collaboration? It would give students flexibility on their focus, going more on technical, or art direction. All three institutions are already contributing to Gogbot festival (without joint effort). A collaboration of this case can be a benchmark on to see if these institutions can work together.</span>

<div>A infographic of our solutions can be found here: [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A0HMcCJJKIy3PbYW9bkZSWPiodoCuDrY https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A0HMcCJJKIy3PbYW9bkZSWPiodoCuDrY]<br/></div>

= '''Fall 2019 Priorities'''<br/> =

<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>

<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralized Information Platform</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">Bursting the Bubble</span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>
<div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-024b7c0c-7fff-0021-e337-a184f1715e26"><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;">To ensure that this platform comes alive, information about cultural activities should be collected, relations with local shops, museums and other places should be established, an initial platform should be established with some general information, and do some additional research on what students need to start bursting their own bubble.</span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Societal Programs'''</span></font>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a need for more societal-focused programs at the University of Twente. There are two programs that we thought would help the University to evolve its education and awareness. The first program focuses on societal entrepreneurship and the second program focuses on solving real-life issues in countries using technological solutions. </span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">UIF World</span>
</div></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6d39b3f5-7fff-a3d6-33e1-c0bd4168acf1"><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;">Right now our university has participated for three years in the UIF program and the fellows before us used this opportunity to have a huge positive impact on our landscape through various projects. Some projects validated little but important changes and others had an enormous outreach. Although fellows put a lot of effort into these different projects, the UIF program is not commonly known under students. We believe that if we represent the voice of students in the conversation of changing our education, students should at least know about us and be able to connect to us so that they feel seriously represented. Moreover, spreading awareness about the power students have to change their own environment, might inspire them to validate their own change.</span></span>
<div>

<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Sustainabiliy Programs'''</span></font>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a0ef99-7fff-3b93-c8d5-201986133010"><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;">The University of Twente has only recently begun setting up a ‘Green Office’ - a centralized platform to monitor, support and enable sustainability projects. While the collaborative spirit and founding of sustainability as a theme is set up, the Green Office does not provide any specific context for sustainability initiatives.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a0ef99-7fff-3b93-c8d5-201986133010"><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;">We will further extend sustainability efforts through collaborative education and a strong regional network, which in the long term should lead to more entrepreneurial opportunities in relation to the topic of sustainability. The focus here is on students who, within their education, want to act on their ideas with support from experts and guidance from industry players.</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Potential ways of doing so would include, but is not limited, to online courses and sustainability-themed honors tracks. What if students could opt to participate in these sustainability-themed tracks and funnel their ambitions into real cases? What if student groups could be supported by experts and mentors, to increase the potential for entrepreneurial spin-offs? Students should be armed with the right tools and networks to apply their creativity to sustainability-related projects.</span>
</div><div><br/></div>

= Related Links =

=== University Website ===

[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente]

=== Wiki pages ===

[[University of Twente|University of Twente]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Twente_Student_PrioritiesUniversity of Twente Student Priorities]

=== University Innovation Fellows ===

==== Fall 2016 ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

[[Jos van 't Hof|Jos van 't Hof]]

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

==== '''Spring 2017''' ====

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

[[Lennart van de Velde|Lennart van de Velde]]

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

==== '''Fall 2017''' ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Sevimaktas Sevim Aktas]

[[Rianne Hagen|Rianne Hagen]]

[[Titus Venverloo|Titus Venverloo]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Wmkamerman Wim Kamerman]

==== Spring 2018 ====

[[Suhaib Aslam|Suhaib Aslam]]

[[Kaz Middelhoek|Kaz Middelhoek]]

[[Marthe Oldenhof|Marthe Oldenhof]]

[[Julian Sotscheck|Julian Sotscheck]]

==== Fall 2018 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anil_Ozen Anil Özen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anja_D%C3%B6mer Anja Dömer]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hizirwan_Salim Hizirwan Salim]

==== Candidates of Fall 2019 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alejandro_Garc%C3%ADa_Navarrete Alejandro García Navarrete]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Can_Erel Can Erel]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Edo_de_Wolf Edo de Wolf]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/GLEB_PODOROZHNYY Gleb Podorozhnyy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Haak Jessica Haak]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Lena%20marie%20assink Lena Marie Assink]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Veldman Lisa Veldman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rick_Akkerman Rick Akkerman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Satwik_Kritika_Krishna Satwik Kritika Krishna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Simon_de_Schaetzen Simon de Schaetzen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thyne_Scholte Thyne Scholte]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tra_my_nguyen Tra My Nguyen]
<div><br/></div>
<br/>[[File:UniversityOfTwenteSign.jpeg]]</div>

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

School:University of Twente

2019-10-08T18:43:05Z

ThyneS:

= Campus Overview =
<p style="text-align: justify;">[[File:UTOverview2.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The University of Twente is located in Europe in the city Enschede, The Netherlands. Founded in 1961 it now holds an approximate of 11.000 students. Originating as a technical university its motto “High Tech, Human Touch” describes how the university connects cutting edge technologies with society.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The university is located in Twente, the most entrepreneurial region of the Netherlands, with approximately 140 new start-ups in the region every year. With a Science and Business park across the road and lots of I&E resources, the University of Twente has a lot to offer to those willing to create a business.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the past couple of years the University of Twente already went through some educational changes in favor of innovation and entrepreneurship. Its new Twents Education Model (T.E.M.) revolves around a multidisciplinary, project-based approach. One of the big strengths of the university is its student-driven activism, where student-driven organizations organize and arrange all sorts of things for their fellow students.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The University of Twente is part of the University Innovations Fellows program since Fall 2016. It is the first university in the Netherlands and Europe participating in the program.</p>
<br/>Here is our story:

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== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The University of <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="1">Twente</span> provides everything a student may desire to pursue innovation and entrepreneurship. Starting with their first step on campus, the students come into contact with the vibrant activities off and on campus.</p>
*'''Kick-In:''' Each year all freshman students kick off their academic career with a week full of activities to discover the university, the students and the city. 

*'''Student-associations: '''Ordering books, excursions to companies, working on high-tech technologies and even the sport you love to play is organized and managed by fellow students. Over 100 different associations on and of campus are active in various different ways to make a more complete study life.

*'''Start-up and entrepreneurship events: '''such as the three day <span data-scayt_word="StartupLaunch" data-scaytid="11">StartupLaunch</span> weekend, the International Start-up Challenge and the <span data-scayt_word="EntrepreneurialU" data-scaytid="12">EntrepreneurialU</span> organized each year at on the campus of the university.

*'''<span data-scayt_word="DesignLab" data-scaytid="14">DesignLab</span>'': '''''sience2design4society, the DesignLab provides a creative ecosystem for connecting the science to society. In this space students from all fields of study work together to create all the crazy ideas they have!

*'''Internationalisation Department: '''Each year they organize two very interesting events, the CuriousU summer school, and the PreU promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among high school students. This makes students interested in the UT aware of the highly innovation-driven mindset of the current students.

*'''Week of Inspiration:'''  As a yearly event, the Week of Inspiration is organized by students and is meant to broaden the knowledge areas of students. Many lectures relate to real-world problems that fuel the innovative mindset of UT students

*'''The Bedrijvendagen:''' offers a vast variety of activities that give students the chance to come into contact with companies. Amongst workshops and an ambition week, they organise a yearly two day long Career Fair, that allows students to talk to company representatives about their interests, internships and job opportunities.

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">Research at the University of Twente is aimed to have a social and economic impact. With research institutes focused on nanotechnology, ICT, biomedical technology, technical medicine, governance & behavioral sciences, engineering, geo-information sciences, and earth observation the knowledge generation is not just at a high technical level but also impactful for society. All summarized in its motto:</p>
*'''High Tech-Human Touch: '''Connecting the research involving cutting edge high tech on campus with the (current) problems of society.

The UT has many research departments that represent faculty making strides in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship. Details about research at the UT:

*1,500 researchers work on a daily base on relevant societal challenges in a variety of disciplines
*deliver over 2,700 publications a year, providing valuable input for scientific excellence and laying the foundations for new knowledge-based spin-offs
*'''NIKOS: '''This is a research group at the UT that focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. They try to bring I&E closer to the students through an entrepreneurial summer school, EntrepreneurialU, and they provide a minor for all students where they teach about innovation and entrepreneurship.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function '''<br/> ==

Currently, there is no technology transfer office at the University of Twente. However, the university works in close cooperation with their partners to share their knowledge and make sure that the knowledge is translated effectively into economic activity. The university has a '''Business Development Team''' that supports researchers who are involved in taking research results to market.

== '''Facilitating university-industry collaboration''' ==

Located in the heart of the Dutch start-up scheme, the University of <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="3">Twente</span> is surrounded by organizations providing the knowledge and experience for beginning businesses to evolve.

*'''<span data-scayt_word="Kennispark" data-scaytid="32">Novel-T</span>:''' Formerly known as Kennispark, "<span data-scayt_word="Kennis" data-scaytid="71" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kennis</span>" is the Dutch word for knowledge. Novel-T is an incubator and center of mentoring and support for starting businesses. Additionally, the <span data-scayt_word="Kennispark" data-scaytid="41">Kennispark</span> is a business and science park located across from the university and is home to new and developing innovative businesses.
*'''Hardstart:''' This is an association for entrepreneurial students by entrepreneurial students. Hardstart is about creating real value for all the people involved. It's doing this by offering workplaces, connecting people and giving attention to new ideas by hosting events.
*'''Incubase: '''A soon to be opened location where UT students can build their ideas into startups

== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The region <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="1">Twente</span> and independent organizations are able to provide start-ups with the necessary economical support. All of the following are readily available for students:</p>
*'''Dutch Student Investment Fund:''' An organization run by students in the European Union  that helps to turn ideas into reality. The <span data-scayt_word="DSIF" data-scaytid="47">DSIF</span> provides help with your idea, prototyping, financing and finding customers
*'''Young Technology Awards: '''An event run by the <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="62">Twente</span> region to place start-ups in the national spotlight.
*'''Fund the future: '''A funding event run by <span data-scayt_word="Kennispark" data-scaytid="74">Kennispark</span> and Powered by <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="76">Twente</span> organisations
*'''University Fund:''' A fund organised by the University of Twente to fund ideas created on the campus.
*'''Cottonwood Technology Fund''': A venture capatalist fund that invests in disruptive ideas in the Twente region.
*'''Innovation Industries''': A venture capatalist fund that is planning on investing 75 million euro in 20 hightech companies at universities in The Netherlands

= Related links<br/> =

== University Website ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente]</p>
== Wiki pages ==

=== University Of Twente ===
<p style="text-align: justify;">[[University of Twente Student Priorities|University of Twente Student Priorities]]</p>
=== University Innovation Fellows ===

==== Fall 2016 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/Arian%20Hohmann Arian Hohmann]

[http://universityinnovation.org/David%20Goedicke David Goedicke]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Jos%20van%20%27t%20Hof Jos van 't Hof]

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

==== Spring 2017 ====

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

[[Lennart van de Velde|Lennart van de Velde]]

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

==== Fall 2017<br/> ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/Rianne%20Hagen Rianne Hagen]

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Titus Venverloo]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

==== Spring 2018 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/Julian%20Sotscheck Julian Sotscheck]

[[Kaz Middelhoek|Kaz Middelhoek]]

[[Marthe Oldenhof|Marthe Oldenhof]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/Suhaib%20Aslam Suhaib Aslam]

==== Fall 2018 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anil_Ozen Anıl Özen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anja_D%C3%B6mer Anja Dömer]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hizirwan_Salim Hizirwan Salim]

==== Candidates of Fall 2019 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alejandro_Garc%C3%ADa_Navarrete Alejandro García Navarrete]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Can_Erel Can Erel]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Edo_de_Wolf Edo de Wolf]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/GLEB_PODOROZHNYY Gleb Podorozhnyy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessica_Haak Jessica Haak]

[[Lena marie assink|Lena Marie Assink]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Lisa_Veldman Lisa Veldman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rick_Akkerman Rick Akkerman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Satwik_Kritika_Krishna Satwik Kritika Krishna]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Simon_de_Schaetzen Simon de Schaetzen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thyne_Scholte Thyne Scholte]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tra_my_nguyen Tra My Nguyen]

[[File:IMG-8440.jpg]]

[[Category:Universities]]

ThyneS:

= Campus Overview =
<p style="text-align: justify;">[[File:UTOverview2.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The University of Twente is located in Europe in the city Enschede, The Netherlands. Founded in 1961 it now holds an approximate of 11.000 students. Originating as a technical university its motto “High Tech, Human Touch” describes how the university connects cutting edge technologies with society.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The university is located in Twente, the most entrepreneurial region of the Netherlands, with approximately 140 new start-ups in the region every year. With a Science and Business park across the road and lots of I&E resources, the University of Twente has a lot to offer to those willing to create a business.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the past couple of years the University of Twente already went through some educational changes in favor of innovation and entrepreneurship. Its new Twents Education Model (T.E.M.) revolves around a multidisciplinary, project-based approach. One of the big strengths of the university is its student-driven activism, where student-driven organizations organize and arrange all sorts of things for their fellow students.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The University of Twente is part of the University Innovations Fellows program since Fall 2016. It is the first university in the Netherlands and Europe participating in the program.</p>
<br/>Here is our story:

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=8y-45ZydaxY}}

== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The University of <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="1">Twente</span> provides everything a student may desire to pursue innovation and entrepreneurship. Starting with their first step on campus, the students come into contact with the vibrant activities off and on campus.</p>
*'''Kick-In:''' Each year all freshman students kick off their academic career with a week full of activities to discover the university, the students and the city. 

*'''Student-associations: '''Ordering books, excursions to companies, working on high-tech technologies and even the sport you love to play is organized and managed by fellow students. Over 100 different associations on and of campus are active in various different ways to make a more complete study life.

*'''Start-up and entrepreneurship events: '''such as the three day <span data-scayt_word="StartupLaunch" data-scaytid="11">StartupLaunch</span> weekend, the International Start-up Challenge and the <span data-scayt_word="EntrepreneurialU" data-scaytid="12">EntrepreneurialU</span> organized each year at on the campus of the university.

*'''<span data-scayt_word="DesignLab" data-scaytid="14">DesignLab</span>'': '''''sience2design4society, the DesignLab provides a creative ecosystem for connecting the science to society. In this space students from all fields of study work together to create all the crazy ideas they have!

*'''Internationalisation Department: '''Each year they organize two very interesting events, the CuriousU summer school, and the PreU promoting innovation and entrepreneurship among high school students. This makes students interested in the UT aware of the highly innovation-driven mindset of the current students.

*'''Week of Inspiration:'''  As a yearly event, the Week of Inspiration is organized by students and is meant to broaden the knowledge areas of students. Many lectures relate to real-world problems that fuel the innovative mindset of UT students

*'''The Bedrijvendagen:''' offers a vast variety of activities that give students the chance to come into contact with companies. Amongst workshops and an ambition week, they organise a yearly two day long Career Fair, that allows student to talk to company representatives about their interests, internships and job opportunities.

== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">Research at the University of Twente is aimed to have a social and economic impact. With research institutes focused on nanotechnology, ICT, biomedical technology, technical medicine, governance & behavioral sciences, engineering, geo-information sciences, and earth observation the knowledge generation is not just at a high technical level but also impactful for society. All summarized in its motto:</p>
*'''High Tech-Human Touch: '''Connecting the research involving cutting edge high tech on campus with the (current) problems of society.

The UT has many research departments that represent faculty making strides in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship. Details about research at the UT:

*1,500 researchers work on a daily base on relevant societal challenges in a variety of disciplines
*deliver over 2,700 publications a year, providing valuable input for scientific excellence and laying the foundations for new knowledge-based spin-offs
*'''NIKOS: '''This is a research group at the UT that focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. They try to bring I&E closer to the students through an entrepreneurial summer school, EntrepreneurialU, and they provide a minor for all students where they teach about innovation and entrepreneurship.

== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function '''<br/> ==

Currently, there is no technology transfer office at the University of Twente. However, the university works in close cooperation with their partners to share their knowledge and make sure that the knowledge is translated effectively into economic activity. The university has a '''Business Development Team''' that supports researchers who are involved in taking research results to market.

== '''Facilitating university-industry collaboration''' ==

Located in the heart of the Dutch start-up scheme, the University of <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="3">Twente</span> is surrounded by organizations providing the knowledge and experience for beginning businesses to evolve.

*'''<span data-scayt_word="Kennispark" data-scaytid="32">Novel-T</span>:''' Formerly known as Kennispark, "<span data-scayt_word="Kennis" data-scaytid="71" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kennis</span>" is the Dutch word for knowledge. Novel-T is an incubator and center of mentoring and support for starting businesses. Additionally, the <span data-scayt_word="Kennispark" data-scaytid="41">Kennispark</span> is a business and science park located across from the university and is home to new and developing innovative businesses.
*'''Hardstart:''' This is an association for entrepreneurial students by entrepreneurial students. Hardstart is about creating real value for all the people involved. It's doing this by offering workplaces, connecting people and giving attention to new ideas by hosting events.
*'''Incubase: '''A soon to be opened location where UT students can build their ideas into startups

== '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts '''<br/> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">The region <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="1">Twente</span> and independent organizations are able to provide start-ups with the necessary economical support. All of the following are readily available for students:</p>
*'''Dutch Student Investment Fund:''' An organization run by students in the European Union  that helps to turn ideas into reality. The <span data-scayt_word="DSIF" data-scaytid="47">DSIF</span> provides help with your idea, prototyping, financing and finding customers
*'''Young Technology Awards: '''An event run by the <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="62">Twente</span> region to place start-ups in the national spotlight.
*'''Fund the future: '''A funding event run by <span data-scayt_word="Kennispark" data-scaytid="74">Kennispark</span> and Powered by <span data-scayt_word="Twente" data-scaytid="76">Twente</span> organisations
*'''University Fund:''' A fund organised by the University of Twente to fund ideas created on the campus.
*'''Cottonwood Technology Fund''': A venture capatalist fund that invests in disruptive ideas in the Twente region.
*'''Innovation Industries''': A venture capatalist fund that is planning on investing 75 million euro in 20 hightech companies at universities in The Netherlands

= Related links<br/> =

== University Website ==
<p style="text-align: justify;">[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente]</p>
== Wiki pages ==

=== University Of Twente ===
<p style="text-align: justify;">[[University of Twente Student Priorities|University of Twente Student Priorities]]</p>
=== University Innovation Fellows ===

==== Fall 2016 ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

[[Jos van 't Hof|Jos van 't Hof]]

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

==== Spring 2017 ====

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

[[Lennart van de Velde|Lennart van de Velde]]

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

==== Fall 2017<br/> ====

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Rianne Hagen]]

[[Titus Venverloo]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

==== Spring 2018 ====

[[Suhaib Aslam|Suhaib Aslam]]

[[Kaz Middelhoek|Kaz Middelhoek]]

[[Marthe Oldenhof|Marthe Oldenhof]]

[[Julian Sotscheck|Julian Sotscheck]]

==== Fall 2018 ====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anja_D%C3%B6mer Anja Dömer]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anil_Ozen Anıl Özen]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hizirwan_Salim Hizirwan Salim]

==== Spring 2019 ====
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