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Fellow:Furkan Varol

2023-06-06T11:35:07Z

Varolfurkan2: /* Bio */ 2022-2023 Update

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;Name:Furkan Varol
;School (Cohort):Boğaziçi University (2022 cohort)
;Majoring in:International Trade
;Country:Turkey
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==Bio==
We have something to learn from any being in life, but for me, the most precious and magical thing is the acquisition of others’ information that’s retained from their experience. Since childhood, I was a very curious kid asking my parents about any interesting thing that encountered and nothing changed when I grow up. My parents were replaced by searching on the internet and strangers that I ''believe'' they’ve got the answer namely professors, writers, philosophers, scientists, and, of course, locals that I encounter on my journeys.

At first glance, it might seem it doesn’t worth mentioning ‘locals’ in this order but I firmly believe that being present in a brand new place that you have never been in is like being born again. This time you have facilitators of communication, the language, but nothing more. The locals or the materials you read, watch or listened to are your guide to experience the ‘place’ with eyes fully open, with curiosity. It is the source of inspiration to build yourself in any combination of paths you want to follow in other words creating your way.

That’s why I am on my way to selecting different paths to follow. When I was in high school I have never been away from my hometown for a long time. I started to investigate the instances that characterized the city in history. The forgotten ones were very attractive to me, and as an assistant to my high school history teacher Füsun Genç I started to investigate earthquakes and fires that occurred in my hometown for 2 years and our articles were accepted in Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

In the first path of the middle of adolescence, it was the professors and the newspapers that I found to gather information about the instance I want to learn more. The second path came during my freshman year at university. The Covid-19 Pandemic locked all of us in houses and for me, there was a long summer ahead before the first year of university. The new adventures were calling me, I had to find a way to explore new things without even leaving the house so I started to read classical novels. In my entire life, I have never stayed physically inactive, so I also started to do yoga practices on YouTube, and take long walks in the forest near the house. It was the writers from whom I was fed during this time and my economics professor Mehtap Işık, she also suggested me many different books after the first academic year began for me.

I am still on the third path and it started with a 3-day Antalya trip to run a half marathon. I trained hard to be able to finish 21km without stopping. In addition to this, it was the first time I traveled so far from Istanbul. I liked the idea of attending an organization that involves physical activity and meanwhile traveling those places. Therefore I planned my next activity in the spring, I was going to attend a yoga retreat camp in Fethiye and I was expecting to learn how to do handstands. Unfortunately, it has been canceled the day before I hit the road. Anyways I didn’t cancel my trip and for the first time, I went to a place without any purpose, just to discover and all alone. In early June, my travels around Turkey started that way. I met with a yogi in Fethiye who lived in India for 2 years to learn the essence of yoga and now was turning back to his home country, France. Hanuman as he called himself taught me many concepts on traveling as well as yoga practices. From the inspiration I had from what he told me, I traveled to the southeastern part of Turkey, by myself. It was also my first time using an app called Couchsurfing which enables travelers to stay with locals for free. It was my thing, discovering new worlds under the guidance of locals and seeing new lifestyles in their place! Right now I want to focus on those trips and getting to know new people and see their lives to get inspiration for the next path I will follow!

Updates :

After I wrote this bio I have achieved several things that satisfy me and motivates me for the future to acomplish more and more things! Fistly, I really set up a Spanish Speaking Community namely Comunidad Hispana [https://www.instagram.com/lacomunidadboun/] within my university and we have organized activities weekly basis.[https://lacomunidadboun.com/actividad/] I led a very hardworking team to organize those events, I have never been alone in this journey. 5 strangers got together to achieve one common thing in our school and I am very proud to have each of them to make our dreams come true. From here I want to thank all the boardmembers of Comunidad Hispana![https://lacomunidadboun.com/about]

Another new update is I think I am still on the last part of third phase I mentioned earlier. I am an excanghe student in Slovenia, Maribor. Although, it is a brand new experience to study abroad, it is a continuation of my passion of travelling and exploring new cultures and lifestyles. I have had the chance to travel throughout Central Europe and Spain in this period of my life for the first time, had many acquaintances through that voyages.
[[File:Donation Page.jpg|thumb|296x296px|Our crowd-funding campaign to have financial support to attend the MeetUp at Stanford.]]
After being selected in UIF program, we had a very hard task as all fellows in Turkey: the travelling visa for the US and money to get there. The last week to the meetup we stil didn't know if we would get the visa on time. After the whole processI have never given up to get in touch with bureaucrats in Turkey and the U.S to tell our circumstances and even in these conditions how we are really focused to attend the MeetUp at Stanford. As two cohorts Bogazici and ITU, we were noticed that we are elligable to attain our visas in the last few days! But, how will we get that money within few days?! Flight tickets each person were so expensive, a monthly salary! We had to carry out campaigns to collect at least the flights and we were able to collect $4k in two days. Special thanks to Emine Çavak who works in the Alumni Association of Bogazici University [https://www.bumed.org.tr/] and fascilitates our connection with alumnis all over the U.S to support us to carry out this campaign.

Lastly, being a part of Entrepreneurship Center brought about organizing events apart from that of Comunidad Hispana. Through that organizations I got in touch with an entrepreneuer fellow student in my department and together we organized three activities regarding Minimalist Entrepreneurship and E-commerce. [https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmPdN0XqvuH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==] As we got on very well, he offered me to be partners in his Digital Marketing Agency named [https://crensus.com/ Crensus] and from him I recieved many trainings regarding building a website, managing paid social media ads, legal background of LLC and so on.. Now, I am Digital Marketing Consultant in Crensus and helping SMEs in Turkey to grow and be efficiently visiable on the internet.
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==Achievements==

*Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey's Competition 2nd and 3rd place in south Marmara region in 2016 and 2017.
*A beginner solo backpacker.
*Crafter of gourd lamps and I have a store on Etsy: [https://www.etsy.com/shop/vibeanatolia vibeanatolia]
*Half marathon runner in Runtalya 2022
*Coirmaster in the jazz choir of Boğaziçi University 2022-2023
*Set up [https://www.instagram.com/lacomunidadboun/ Comunidad Hispana]
*Organized events at [https://girisimcilik.boun.edu.tr/ Bright] regarding [https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmPdN0XqvuH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Minimalist Entrepreneur]

==Social media profiles==
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkan-varol2 Linkedin profile: Furkan Varol]
[https://www.instagram.com/varolfurkan2 Instagram profile: @varolfurkan2]
[https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/furkan-varol-3 Couchsurfing profile]

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2023-06-06T11:20:44Z

Varolfurkan2:

Our crowd-funding campaign to have financial support from our graduates living in the U.S

Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

2022-10-25T07:30:06Z

Varolfurkan2: /* Project Details */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

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=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
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====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

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====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish through coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

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!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Possible Stakeholder and Partners
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|Coffee Talks
|Within 1 Month
|It is a inter-level speaking activity with peers which is held preiodically.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
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|Turco-Español language exchange
|Within 1 month
|One to one matching meeting with erasmus and peers.
|Gether students from Erasmus who want to learn Turkish with peers who learn spanish
|ESN and personal networks
Galatasaray University Erasmus students
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|Night Espana
Fiesta
|Within 1 Month
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
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|Spanish Karaoke Night
|Within 2 Months
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
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|Films Espana
|Within 3 Months
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
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|Spanish Debates
|Within 3 months
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to start to think from the percepective of the target lanaguage.
|bogaziciMUN, personal networks
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|Spanish Gastronomy
|Within 4 Months
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
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|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|Within 6 Months
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
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|Travel With Natives
|Within 8 Months
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
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|Travel
|Within 12 Months
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

2022-10-22T16:51:58Z

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='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish through coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Possible Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|Within 1 Month
|It is a inter-level speaking activity with peers which is held preiodically.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|Within 1 Month
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|Within 2 Months
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|Within 3 Months
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Debates
|Within 3 months
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to start to think from the percepective of the target lanaguage.
|bogaziciMUN
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|Within 4 Months
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|Within 6 Months
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Travel With Natives
|Within 8 Months
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|Within 12 Months
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

2022-10-17T08:35:30Z

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='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish through coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|Within 1 Month
|It is a inter-level speaking activity with peers which is held preiodically.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|Within 1 Month
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|Within 2 Months
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|Within 3 Months
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Debates
|Within 3 months
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to start to think from the percepective of the target lanaguage.
|bogaziciMUN
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|Within 4 Months
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|Within 6 Months
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Travel With Natives
|Within 8 Months
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|Within 12 Months
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish through coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|Within 1 Month
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|Within 1 Month
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|Within 2 Months
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|Within 3 Months
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Debates
|Within 3 months
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to use a language.
|bogaziciMUN
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|Within 4 Months
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|Within 6 Months
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Travel With Natives
|Within 8 Months
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|Within 12 Months
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish through coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Spanish Debates
|3 months after the training
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to use a language.
|bogaziciMUN
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

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='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Spanish Debates
|3 months after the training
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to use a language.
|bogaziciMUN
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

2022-10-16T20:45:04Z

Varolfurkan2: /* Person in Charge: Furkan Varol */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Spanish Debates
|3 months after the training
|There will be some specific topics and in advance there will be debating groups selecting one side of the debate and get prepared for the debate. The conclusions will be published in the social media accounts of the community.
|Having arguments on specific topics is really good way to use a language.
|bogaziciMUN
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

2022-10-10T13:51:07Z

Varolfurkan2: /* Project Details */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

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!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Spanish Magazine
|on progress
|on progress
|on progress
|on progress
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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2022-10-08T08:33:59Z

Varolfurkan2:

Fellow:Furkan Varol

2022-10-08T08:31:12Z

Varolfurkan2:

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;Name: Furkan Varol
;School (Cohort): Boğaziçi University (2022 cohort)
;Majoring in: International Trade
;Country: Turkey
;Email: [[Special:EmailUser/Varolfurkan2]]
|}

==Bio==
We have something to learn from any being in life, but for me, the most precious and magical thing is the acquisition of others’ information that’s retained from their experience. Since childhood, I was a very curious kid asking my parents about any interesting thing that encountered and nothing changed when I grow up. My parents were replaced by searching on the internet and strangers that I ''believe'' they’ve got the answer namely professors, writers, philosophers, scientists, and, of course, locals that I encounter on the journey.
At first glance, it might seem it doesn’t worth mentioning ‘locals’ in this order but I firmly believe that being present in a brand new place that you have never been in is like being born again. This time you have facilitators of communication but nothing more. The locals or the materials you read, watch or listened to are your guide to experience the ‘place’ with eyes fully open, with curiosity. It is the source of inspiration to build yourself in any combination of paths you want to follow in other words creating your way.
That’s why I am on my way to selecting different paths to follow. When I was in high school I have never been away from my hometown for a long time. I started to investigate the instances that characterized the city in history. The forgotten ones were very attractive to me, and as an assistant to my high school history teacher Füsun Genç I started to investigate earthquakes and fires that occurred in Balıkesir (my hometown) for 2 years and our articles were accepted in Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. In the first path of the middle of adolescence, it was the professors and the newspapers that I found to gather information about the instance I want to learn more.
The second path came during my freshman year at university. The Covid-19 Pandemic locked all of us in houses and for me, there was a long summer ahead before the first year of university. The new adventures were calling me, I had to find a way to explore new things without even leaving the house so I started to read classical novels. In my entire life, I have never stayed physically inactive, so I also started to do yoga practices on YouTube, and take long walks in the forest near the house. It was the writers from whom I was fed during this time and my economics professor Mehtap Işık, she also suggested me many different books after the first academic year began for me.
I am still on the third path and it started with a 3-day Antalya trip to run a half marathon. I trained hard to be able to finish 21km without stopping. In addition to this, it was the first time I traveled so far from Istanbul. I liked the idea of attending an organization that involves physical activity and meanwhile traveling those places. Therefore I planned my next activity in the spring, I was going to attend a yoga retreat camp in Fethiye and I was expecting to learn how to do handstands. Unfortunately, it has been canceled the day before I hit the road. Anyways I didn’t cancel my trip and for the first time, I went to a place without any purpose, just to discover and all alone. In early June, my travels around Turkey started that way. I met with a yogi in Fethiye who lived in India for 2 years to learn the essence of yoga and now was turning back to his home country, France. Hanuman as he called himself taught me many concepts on traveling as well as yoga practices. From the inspiration I had from what he told me, I traveled to the southeastern part of Turkey, by myself. It was also my first time using an app called Couchsurfing which enables travelers to stay with locals for free. It was my thing, discovering new worlds under the guidance of locals and seeing new lifestyles in their place! Right now I want to focus on those trips and getting to know new people and see their lives to get inspiration for the next path I will follow!

==Achievements==
* Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey's Competition 2nd and 3rd place in south Marmara region in 2016 and 2017.
* A beginner solo backpacker.
* Crafter of gourd lamps and I have a store on Etsy: [https://www.etsy.com/shop/vibeanatolia vibeanatolia]
* Half marathon runner in Runtalya 2022
* Coirmaster in the jazz choir of Boğaziçi University 2022-2023

==Social media profiles==
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkan-varol2 Linkedin profile: Furkan Varol]
[https://www.instagram.com/varolfurkan2 Instagram profile: @varolfurkan2]
[https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/furkan-varol-3 Couchsurfing profile]

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2022-10-08T08:30:27Z

Varolfurkan2:

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;Majoring in: International Trade
;Country: Turkey
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==Bio==
We have something to learn from any being in life, but for me, the most precious and magical thing is the acquisition of others’ information that’s retained from their experience. Since childhood, I was a very curious kid asking my parents about any interesting thing that encountered and nothing changed when I grow up. My parents were replaced by searching on the internet and strangers that I ''believe'' they’ve got the answer namely professors, writers, philosophers, scientists, and, of course, locals that I encounter on the journey.
At first glance, it might seem it doesn’t worth mentioning ‘locals’ in this order but I firmly believe that being present in a brand new place that you have never been in is like being born again. This time you have facilitators of communication but nothing more. The locals or the materials you read, watch or listened to are your guide to experience the ‘place’ with eyes fully open, with curiosity. It is the source of inspiration to build yourself in any combination of paths you want to follow in other words creating your way.
That’s why I am on my way to selecting different paths to follow. When I was in high school I have never been away from my hometown for a long time. I started to investigate the instances that characterized the city in history. The forgotten ones were very attractive to me, and as an assistant to my high school history teacher Füsun Genç I started to investigate earthquakes and fires that occurred in Balıkesir (my hometown) for 2 years and our articles were accepted in Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. In the first path of the middle of adolescence, it was the professors and the newspapers that I found to gather information about the instance I want to learn more.
The second path came during my freshman year at university. The Covid-19 Pandemic locked all of us in houses and for me, there was a long summer ahead before the first year of university. The new adventures were calling me, I had to find a way to explore new things without even leaving the house so I started to read classical novels. In my entire life, I have never stayed physically inactive, so I also started to do yoga practices on YouTube, and take long walks in the forest near the house. It was the writers from whom I was fed during this time and my economics professor Mehtap Işık, she also suggested me many different books after the first academic year began for me.
I am still on the third path and it started with a 3-day Antalya trip to run a half marathon. I trained hard to be able to finish 21km without stopping. In addition to this, it was the first time I traveled so far from Istanbul. I liked the idea of attending an organization that involves physical activity and meanwhile traveling those places. Therefore I planned my next activity in the spring, I was going to attend a yoga retreat camp in Fethiye and I was expecting to learn how to do handstands. Unfortunately, it has been canceled the day before I hit the road. Anyways I didn’t cancel my trip and for the first time, I went to a place without any purpose, just to discover and all alone. In early June, my travels around Turkey started that way. I met with a yogi in Fethiye who lived in India for 2 years to learn the essence of yoga and now was turning back to his home country, France. Hanuman as he called himself taught me many concepts on traveling as well as yoga practices. From the inspiration I had from what he told me, I traveled to the southeastern part of Turkey, by myself. It was also my first time using an app called Couchsurfing which enables travelers to stay with locals for free. It was my thing, discovering new worlds under the guidance of locals and seeing new lifestyles in their place! Right now I want to focus on those trips and getting to know new people and see their lives to get inspiration for the next path I will follow!

==Achievements==
* Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey's Competition 2nd and 3rd place in south Marmara region in 2016 and 2017.
* A beginner solo backpacker.
* Crafter of gourd lamps and I have a store on Etsy: [https://www.etsy.com/shop/vibeanatolia vibeanatolia]
* Half marathon runner in Runtalya 2022
* Coirmaster in the jazz choir of Boğaziçi University 2022-2023

==Social media profiles==
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkan-varol2 Linkedin profile: Furkan Varol]
[https://www.instagram.com/varolfurkan2 Instagram profile: @varolfurkan2]
[https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/furkan-varol-3 Couchsurfing profile]

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2022-10-08T08:29:40Z

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2022-10-01T19:10:08Z

Varolfurkan2: /* Person in Charge: Furkan Varol */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|MEF okulları
TED Rönesans Koleji

TED İstanbul
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

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Varolfurkan2: /* Person in Charge: Furkan Varol */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|Private School
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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2022-09-29T20:14:34Z

Varolfurkan2: /* Person in Charge: Furkan Varol */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|Private School
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|-
|Spanish Karaoke Night
|2 Months after training
|With the ones who like to sing out loud, there will be a karaoke night, the ones who are less willing to sing will be encouraged.
|Music is one of the major components to get familiar with the language. Music has a good affect on creation of a team spirit.
|Kahverengi Cafe(if more than 10 people)
Fun Crown (if up to 4 people)
|}<br />

=='''STRATEGY #4: DEVELOPING STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURAL COMPETENCES WİTH A COMPACT TARINING'''==

===Project: Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship School===
'''''Person in Charge:''''' Erdoğan Kocabaş

===Project Details===
Students who just start university feel the lack of certain competencies due to education systems' focusing unreal topics instead of developing students' real life skills. With the deficency of these, they suffer in not only academic issues but also business experiences. For instance, most of Turkish students graduate from high school without making a teamwork properly. Our project's main focus is developing these skillsets from very beging to high levels. We will do it with some layers which are 101, 201 and 301.

'''101 layer:''' In this layer, students will gain competencies such as presentation techniques, research methods, technology, information and health literacy that everyone should have. Thus, whether they prefer entrepreneurship as a career goal or not, they will be able to think critically and make their own decisions.

'''201 layer:''' At this stage students will learn about specific business areas after general education at 101. For example, after receiving general information from experts and academics in the fields of blockchain, fintech, social entrepreneurship or artificial intelligence, they will choose a vertical and gain technical equipment. The field they chose will be the field where they will form a team and develop a project with other students who have chosen the same field.

'''301 layer:''' In this last layer, students will receive mentorship from their chosen role models that have made an impact in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and will do internships at institutions such as civil society and startups with which we cooperate in order to better see the opportunities in the field. In addition, it will be better equipped by choosing the appropriate ones from a training package consisting of niche areas such as language and software. For example, if the biggest market in the industry where he developed a project is in China, he will learn basic Chinese.

At the end of 1 year training, we will be expecting some specific projects from teams and provide network and sponsorship support. We hope different projects from different areas' being launched thanks to training.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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2022-09-28T10:59:26Z

Varolfurkan2: /* STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

=='''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY'''==

===Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad)===

=====''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol=====

====Project Details====

*From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
*The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
*Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project. The following of the project will be assisted by
*As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
Fiesta
|1 Month after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Travel With Natives
|8 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|To gain confidence in getting in contact with natives and have friends.
|ESNBogazici
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts and Education
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute and provide elementary learning materials in Spanish for students in secondary and highschools who learn Spanish as a second foreign language.
|To provide contents that are designed for students in private schools who choose to learn Spanish in Istanbul
|Private School
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|Barcelona and Madrid Travels with limited budget and staying hostels.
|To have to speak Spanish and be immersed into cultures
|Embassy of Spain, Consulate General, Couchsurfing, Ryanair
|}

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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Priorities:Boğaziçi University Student Priorities

2022-09-28T07:53:00Z

Varolfurkan2: /* STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS */

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2022'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: CAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS'''==

===Project: BUmentor===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Kumsal Belin

===Project Details===
BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work?

*Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.
*Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.
*The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.
*The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.
*At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.
*For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.
*The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.
*Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation.

<br />

=='''STRATEGY #2: INCREASING I&E AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'''==

===Project: extremeDesign - Entrepreneurship Summer School===
'''''Person In Charge'':''' Eren Anter

===Project Details===
''"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."''

''-Chris Grosser''

The sooner, the better! Since creating opportunities during your journey is essential, we believe that our career, and therefore our career plans, and our awareness of entrepreneurship were and should have been formed at least in high school. However, very few of our friends have awareness about change-making, entrepreneurship, and basic experience.

As members of the Stanford University UIF Boğaziçi University team, we thought about how we can reach high school students who have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how we can increase their awareness, knowledge, and experience on this subject. And we found something new that will not only allow us to reach high school students but also prompt us to take steps to address lack of institutional resources about I&E: extremeDesign Summer School.

extremeDesign is a 2-stage training program. The first stage of the program is theoretical training. In this part of the program, we will proceed with a focus on sharing and we will try to support the participants with additional resources, and this attitude will continue in every part of the theoretical training. Likewise, we need to convey that the theoretical education will progress together with the practices. At this stage, we can say that the program of our university friends and the programs of our high school friends are quite different from each other as it is needed. The contents of both theoretical education and practice program are like following.
<br />

====Theoretical and Practical Education====

*'''Basic Skills Course:''' We found that our high school fellows, especially those who do not already have experience, often do not have the basic competencies to develop a project, and we wanted to give them a specially designed crash course on this subject instead of pulling them out as many other training programs do.
*'''Design Thinking Course:''' We will open this course to both our high school friends and our university friends. You can think of this part of the training as an accelerated and condensed version of the Fire Up Changemakers program. We plan to teach the Problem Defining/HMW techniques to the participants at the beginning of the process, and then to transfer the Brainstorming and Prototyping techniques to the participants. Participants will be supported at every stage of Design Thinking with practices and assignments as in Fire Up.
*'''Extreme Design Challenge Courses:''' Challenges will consist of real life case studies for high school students, and real problems that require engineering knowledge for college students. In this part of the program, the teams have already been determined and they will receive training and consultancy on the topics we think are necessary for their own challenges.
*'''Entrepreneurship 101:''' We think that this is very important at the beginning of the program. In particular, we predict that entrepreneurship education in the theoretical sense, having a good command of entrepreneurship stories and entrepreneurship concepts will make serious contributions to the participants throughout the process.

<br />

====Extreme Design Challenges====

*At this stage, it would not be wrong to say that the challenges of high school and university students on this issue are very different from each other. High school students will deal with real cases and real solutions that will be requested from institutions that are suitable for their level and that are experts in their fields. University students, on the other hand, will progress through real problems that will require interdisciplinary work, good teamwork and research. For example, they will try to solve the irrigation problem in a field in Istanbul, or they will try to reduce health expenditures in a disadvantaged region, while trying to improve the quality of health care. High school students will present their projects to relevant institutions or professionals. However, university students will be focused on prototype production, which will require advanced creativity and collaboration. In the project development process, high school students will have the opportunity to gain internships from relevant institutions, while university students will be able to benefit from all the opportunities of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center if they are successful in their projects.

== '''STRATEGY #3: BUILDING A SECOND LANGUAGE SPEAKING & CULTURE COMMUNITY''' ==

=== Core Project: Spanish Speaking Community (ESPComunidad) ===

===== ''Person'' in Charge: Furkan Varol =====

==== Project Details ====

* From the motto 'think big, start small, work fast and do something everyday to advance the project', the project will take its start from a very core group of people who learn Spanish as a second foreign language at Bogazici University.
* The first activities will be focused on enhancing speaking ability in Spanish though coffee talks in cafés.
* Modern Language Unit at Bogazici and Cervates Institutes are tought to be the first two stakeholders of the project.
* As the community gets bigger, activities done by the ESPComunidad will be diversified.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Activities with Timeframes
!Activity Name
!Occurence Time
!Definition
!Aim
!Specific Stakeholder and Partners
|-
|Coffee Talks
|1 Month after the training
|It is a same-level speaking activity with peers.
|Break the ice to speak confidently
|Guidence of Spanish professors at Bogazici University
|-
|Night Espana
|3 Months after the training
|To have fun and interact with non-speakers but who are interested in spanish music and fiestas are welcome.
|Interact with others to have more fun and build networks in order to retain a bigger impact.
|BUMK (Music Club)
|-
|Spanish Gastronomy
|4 Months after the training
|Learning the tastes of some spanish dishes. It is also planned to learn how to cook a spanish dish.
|To immerse into spanish culture in depth <br />
|BuGUSTO(Gastronomy Club)
|-
|Films Espana
|3 Months after the training
|Diving into the Spanish filmography, documentaries and series.
|To get connected with non-speaker spanish culture enthusiasors.
|Mithad Alam Film Center and SineBu
|-
|Travel With Natives
|6 Months after the training
|The essential part of learning Spanish is to be able to communicate in Spanish to make native friends
|
|
|-
|Learn Spanish Podcasts
|6 Months after the training
|Voluntarily designed podcast series to learn spanish, creating contents on podcast platforms under the guidence of Modern Language Unit and Cervantes Institute
|
|
|-
|Language Exchange Gathering
|
|
|
|
|-
|Travel
|12 Months after the training
|
|
|
|}

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Training BUnnovation===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu

===Project Details===

In our school, there is a lack of theoretical education on innovation and entrepreneurship.

This project aims to improve students' knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship. There will be classes (seminars) every week. Different instructors from different fields will teach a lesson about that week's topic. For example, a professor of psychology will explain the mindset of an entrepreneur or there will be an affective presentation conference from the human resources department.

We will also create a community from this program. This program may be integrated with another program in our school (Fire Up program). That is, this program may be the prerequisite of Fire Up program. This program will require a selection of students because there are a lot of students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation in Boğaziçi University.

=='''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM '''==

===Project: BUmpact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Zişan Özdemir

===Project Details===

Social innovation is a wide range concept which covers the environmental, economic and social topics and is one of the concepts thrown out of focus in our university. There is no unity at that point, entities are working separately and students are not informed and involved enough.

BUmpact is an social innovation community which brings the relevant entities and interested students and faculty members together. It's a medium for those to brainstorm and collaborate. The aim is also to make people aware and make them motivated to take part in solving global issues. Within the scope of BUmpact, there will be also sub-communities (like working groups) focusing on different SDG groups.

*Poverty Eradication
*Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture
*Water and Sanitation
*Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection
*Youth and Education
*Health and Population Dynamics
*Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth
*Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)
*Human Rights
*Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights)
*Policy and Governance
*Sustainable Cities and Transportation

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''==

===Project: BUact===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Arda Ulutürk
===Project Details===

In Bogazici University, there are lots of people who aim to create or design something. However, sometimes they don't know how they can start and how they should act in the team process.Therefore, it is significant to give them chance to try their skills in the real life. For that reason, hackatons and activities can be significant solution. In the real-time application which is BUact, students can find appropriate hackatons for them and join easily. Every week, they can differant hackaton which is organised by leading companies. Thanks to that, they can act in different industries.

Moreover, students can join the design-thinking and brainstorming activities to learn some crucial techniques. According to interwiev made by students, we realized that students need them these skills to accelerate the project design. This courses can be given by DreamBu Inovation Center. Thus, DreamBu can make the first spart to create inovation culture in the campus.

=='''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles'''==

===Project: coLab===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' [[Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan|Haluk Ziya Tercan]]

===Project Details===

There is a theory like the following;

"Every science discipline feeds itself with many other disciplines. This is the key of scientific production."

The project coLab aims to use this theory in terms of innovation, and entrepreneurship. For this goal, coLab provides a communitiy which has three different sessions. These are;

*Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together
*Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together
*Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

In this project, the target participants are students, instructors, and staff of our school. We define this community as interdisciplinary and interroles. By the word of interroles, we mean the relationship between staff, instructors, and students. In this community, students is not only a student, the instructor is not only an insturctor, and the staff is not only a personel in school. They all are teammates who learn, think, and build together.

The system works like that;

#A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.
#If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.
#A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.
#After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.
#In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.
#After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

The main target of coLab for students is giving them the opportunity to experience of design-thinking with different role groups. For the instructors, and staff, it gives the opportunity to work on different projects out of their main field.

='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019'''=

=='''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM'''==

===Project: Bright Pitching Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

One of the biggest problems of the students in our school is to hesitate to express their ideas. This is because people despise them or steal their ideas. As people with the entrepreneurship mindset, we believe that sharing will always strengthen ideas.

I designed the Pitching Day event for this. There will be 5 teams, audince and 3 successful juries. We will share an application form for selection of teams using our communication channels. For the event, 3 successful startup co-founders will be contacted and asked to be a jury. The event will be advertised for participants from our communication channels. The event will be in the center's office on our main campus. There will be a 30-minute networking session before the event starts. Here, the owners, the participants and the juries will have the chance to meet. Idea owners will write the type of people they need on a whiteboard. There will be a 5 minute presentation and 5 minute question and answer session in front of the juries. After the presentations are over, participants will be able to talk to them to join their teams.

We will provide office and entrepreneurship training to the 2 winning teams.

=='''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS'''==

===Project: Bright Demo Day===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Berkay Kani

===Project Details===

Entrepreneurs often face financial problems while expanding their startups. In some times, things cannot be done and solved without money.

Teams selected to work in our incubation center are also experiencing this problem. So I designed the Bright Demo Day event to solve the investment problem of these startups. At this event, there will be teams who selected in Pitching Day and who completed entrepreneurship training in our incubation center. Using the network of Entrepreneurship Center, 3 seed investors will be contacted and offered to be a jury in the event. Then 5 teams will be selected to make presentations in front of the investors. The teams will tell the investors their products, ask for a certain amount of investment and try to convince the investors to make this investment. In fact, the event is similar to the Shark Tank event. Teams that can convince investors will receive investment and will have the opportunity to grow their startups further.

=='''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''==

===Project: Bright Experience===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Fatih Gözükara

===Project Details===

There is too much event on entrepreneurship but not enough entrepreneurs. In order to train more entrepreneurs, we need to work more to the point than general events. For this, we have designed an experience-oriented, beginning-to-end process that will have a good story for all of us at the end of the day.

===BRIGHT EXPERIENCE===
<div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br /></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br /></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br /></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div>
=='''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR'''==

===Project: Design Thinking Workshop===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Elanur Gayıp

===Project Details===
</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div> As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project. </div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.  The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.  As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.  At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.  Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.  Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div> </div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.  All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.  It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.  Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.  Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br /></div>

='''Related Links'''=

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfgNLgr0V4&t=1s Cohort 2020 Video]

===[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University College Wiki]===
====Fall 2020 Cohort:====
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda Arda Ulutürk]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zi%C5%9Fan_%C3%96zdemir Zişan Özdemir]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan Haluk Ziya Tezcan]

[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_O%C4%9Fuz_Nuho%C4%9Flu Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
====Fall 2019 Cohort:====

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Berkay_Kani Berkay Kani]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Fatih.gozukara Fatih Gözükara]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elanur Elanur Gayıp]
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[[File:Bogazici.jpg|frame|Bogazici University]]

=== History ===
[[File:BOUN Founders.jpg|thumb|right|Founders of Bogazici University]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University was founded in Istanbul,Turkey as Robert College in 1863 by Dr.Cyrus Hamlin,an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Mr. Christopher Rheinlander Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a wealthy merchant from New York. In March 1971, Rector John Scott Everton revealed the resolution passed on January 26, 1971, by the Board of Trustees to the effect that the Turkish government should be encouraged to establish an independent university as a successor to Robert College on either of the campuses. The merger was finalized in the summer of 1971. Today's South Campus of 118 acres, including buildings, the library, laboratories and all facilities and personnel, was passed on to the Turkish government, and on September 10, 1971, Bogazici University was officially established on what had been the Robert College campus for over one hundred years.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Overview ===

'''Vision'''

Boğaziçi University’s vision is to be a leading institution of higher education, one that shapes the future through being a pioneer in education, teaching, and research. The primary tenets of our vision are to:

* Enrich the education and teaching experiences with innovative and creative approaches;
* Strengthen the culture of science, research, creativity, and innovation to become one of the leading research universities in the world; and to
* Contribute to shaping a better future through our academic, scientific, and cultural activities.

'''Mission'''

Boğaziçi University’s mission is to educate individuals who embrace it’s institutional values, who are able to think both creatively and critically, who are independent and egalitarian, who appreciate ethical values, who respect nature and are aware of environmental issues, who are rooted in the local and open to the global, and who can, with their self-confidence and scholarly, social and cultural foundations, successfully take on leadership positions anywhere in the world.

Boğaziçi University’s mission also encompasses producing universal thought, science, and technology in service of humanity, and playing a pioneering role in encouraging the spread of science, culture, and the arts throughout society.</div><div><br/></div>

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=== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship===
[[File:5bea6e3f2a8962.jpg|thumb|right|Bogazici Technopark]]
[[File:Ekran Resmi 2020-09-18 14.59.03.png|thumb|right|DreamBU]]
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University can be counted as one of the most innovative universities in Turkey. It has a culture which promotes students to colloborate and create changes in all fields. Besides this, diversity of student clubs encourage students to work on their interests. Almost all students are a member of at least of one student club, and this improves their creativity in these clubs by organizing events, and applying their skills. In the macro view, BRIGHT ( The Entrepreneurship Center) is running the entrepreneurship side of the school by giving a maker space for entrepreneurs, and funding them to innovate more.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ===
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University has always led Turkey to come up with new ideas firstly. For instance, the very first basketball game in Turkey was played in Boğaziçi University campus at 1904, and there are also many other examples. Thanks to this leadership, most succesfull students of the Turkey usually prefer to study in Boğaziçi University, this also helps instructors and professors to make their choice for Boğaziçi University. Because all these instructors and professors were educated abroad, there is an international atmosphere in the school. When all these aspects come together, faculties and their members are encouraged to innovate. </div>

=== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer Funciton ===
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University Technology Transfer Office's main goal is to convert business ideas into real startups with the help of TUBITAK Dream Bigg programme. They provide a high range of industrial network, professional mentorships, funding opportunities and coworking spaces provided by TTO's partner Bright Incubation Center. They do not only help social innovations but also student's high tech projects. They help getting patent and licence processes to BOUN students who own a business idea. They offer education on setting up a company and funding opportunities, and work with academicians and students who'll set up a company.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Facilitating University-Industry Colloboration ===
[[File:Unnamed-13.jpg|thumb|right|BUMED (Alumni Center)]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University is in deep connection with the main industries. There is a technopark which is opened in 2018 in an industrial park to improve the communication and cooperation with industries more. Moreover, some of the courses are sponsored by related companies to show the real life applications of the materials of the courses. There are also many student clubs which organize many events in partnership with different companies, and start-up. Thanks to these events, students can get the chance of finding internships, and to see what the companies are working about in detail.<br/><br/>

The Alumni Center (BUMED) is also a key part of the school in engaging with businesses by using alumni network. With that support; industries, and university members may be at the same place to collaborate in different topics. </div><div><br/></div>

=== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ===
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University has graduated many well-educated people in his 150 year history. Thanks to this capacity, the university is always a key part of the economy. Also its research opportunites gives professors to improve technology in many fields. As an example, the Coronavirus studies has helped economy by producing the test kit. There are also many other studies that helped Turkey in order to build a strong economy.
Additionally, the graduate businesspeople have an association that facilitates the development process of the local private sector via a consultancy service which is called BRM. They also support social entrepreneurship programs and social entrepreneurs.
</div><div><br/></div>

=== Related Links ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

==== Fall 2020 Cohort: ====

* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda#Social_media_profiles| Arda Ulutürk]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan| Haluk Ziya Tercan]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_Oğuz_Nuhoğlu| Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zişan_Özdemir| Zişan Özdemir]

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[[File:Bogazici.jpg|frame|Bogazici University]]

=== History ===
[[File:BOUN Founders.jpg|thumb|right|Founders of Bogazici University]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University was founded in Istanbul,Turkey as Robert College in 1863 by Dr.Cyrus Hamlin,an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Mr. Christopher Rheinlander Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a wealthy merchant from New York. In March 1971, Rector John Scott Everton revealed the resolution passed on January 26, 1971, by the Board of Trustees to the effect that the Turkish government should be encouraged to establish an independent university as a successor to Robert College on either of the campuses. The merger was finalized in the summer of 1971. Today's South Campus of 118 acres, including buildings, the library, laboratories and all facilities and personnel, was passed on to the Turkish government, and on September 10, 1971, Bogazici University was officially established on what had been the Robert College campus for over one hundred years.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Overview ===

'''Vision'''

Boğaziçi University’s vision is to be a leading institution of higher education, one that shapes the future through being a pioneer in education, teaching, and research. The primary tenets of our vision are to:

* Enrich the education and teaching experiences with innovative and creative approaches;
* Strengthen the culture of science, research, creativity, and innovation to become one of the leading research universities in the world; and to
* Contribute to shaping a better future through our academic, scientific, and cultural activities.

'''Mission'''

Boğaziçi University’s mission is to educate individuals who embrace it’s institutional values, who are able to think both creatively and critically, who are independent and egalitarian, who appreciate ethical values, who respect nature and are aware of environmental issues, who are rooted in the local and open to the global, and who can, with their self-confidence and scholarly, social and cultural foundations, successfully take on leadership positions anywhere in the world.

Boğaziçi University’s mission also encompasses producing universal thought, science, and technology in service of humanity, and playing a pioneering role in encouraging the spread of science, culture, and the arts throughout society.</div><div><br/></div>

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=VVJPXdi_8Rc}}

=== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship===
[[File:5bea6e3f2a8962.jpg|thumb|right|Bogazici Technopark]]
[[File:Ekran Resmi 2020-09-18 14.59.03.png|thumb|right|DreamBU]]
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University can be counted as one of the most innovative universities in Turkey. It has a culture which promotes students to colloborate and create changes in all fields. Besides this, diversity of student clubs encourage students to work on their interests. Almost all students are a member of at least of one student club, and this improves their creativity in these clubs by organizing events, and applying their skills. In the macro view, BRIGHT ( The Entrepreneurship Center) is running the entrepreneurship side of the school by giving a maker space for entrepreneurs, and funding them to innovate more.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ===
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University has always led Turkey to come up with new ideas firstly. For instance, the very first basketball game in Turkey was played in Boğaziçi University campus at 1904, and there are also many other examples. Thanks to this leadership, most succesfull students of the Turkey usually prefer to study in Boğaziçi University, this also helps instructors and professors to make their choice for Boğaziçi University. Because all these instructors and professors were educated abroad, there is an international atmosphere in the school. When all these aspects come together, faculties and their members are encouraged to innovate. </div>

=== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer Funciton ===
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University Technology Transfer Office's main goal is to convert business ideas into real startups with the help of TUBITAK Dream Bigg programme. They provide a high range of industrial network, professional mentorships, funding opportunities and coworking spaces provided by TTO's partner Bright Incubation Center. They do not only help social innovations but also student's high tech projects. They help getting patent and licence processes to BOUN students who own a business idea. They offer education on setting up a company and funding opportunities, and work with academicians and students who'll set up a company.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Facilitating University-Industry Colloboration ===
[[File:Unnamed-13.jpg|thumb|right|BUMED (Alumni Center)]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University is in deep connection with the main industries. There is a technopark which is opened in 2018 in an industrial park to improve the communication and cooperation with industries more. Moreover, some of the courses are sponsored by related companies to show the real life applications of the materials of the courses. There are also many student clubs which organize many events in partnership with different companies, and start-up. Thanks to these events, students can get the chance of finding internships, and to see what the companies are working about in detail.<br/><br/>

The Alumni Center (BUMED) is also a key part of the school in engaging with businesses by using alumni network. With that support; industries, and university members may be at the same place to collaborate in different topics. </div><div><br/></div>

=== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ===
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University has graduated many well-educated people in his 150 year history. Thanks to this capacity, the university is always a key part of the economy. Also its research opportunites gives professors to improve technology in many fields. As an example, the Coronavirus studies has helped economy by producing the test kit. There are also many other studies that helped Turkey in order to build a strong economy.
Additionally, the graduate businesspeople had an association that facilitates the development process of the local private sector via a consultancy service which is called BRM. They also support social entrepreneurship programs and social entrepreneurs.
</div><div><br/></div>

=== Related Links ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

==== Fall 2020 Cohort: ====

* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda#Social_media_profiles| Arda Ulutürk]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan| Haluk Ziya Tercan]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_Oğuz_Nuhoğlu| Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zişan_Özdemir| Zişan Özdemir]

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School:Boğaziçi University

2022-09-15T20:06:16Z

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[[File:Bogazici.jpg|frame|Bogazici University]]

=== History ===
[[File:BOUN Founders.jpg|thumb|right|Founders of Bogazici University]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University was founded in Istanbul,Turkey as Robert College in 1863 by Dr.Cyrus Hamlin,an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Mr. Christopher Rheinlander Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a wealthy merchant from New York. In March 1971, Rector John Scott Everton revealed the resolution passed on January 26, 1971, by the Board of Trustees to the effect that the Turkish government should be encouraged to establish an independent university as a successor to Robert College on either of the campuses. The merger was finalized in the summer of 1971. Today's South Campus of 118 acres, including buildings, the library, laboratories and all facilities and personnel, was passed on to the Turkish government, and on September 10, 1971, Bogazici University was officially established on what had been the Robert College campus for over one hundred years.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Overview ===

'''Vision'''

Boğaziçi University’s vision is to be a leading institution of higher education, one that shapes the future through being a pioneer in education, teaching, and research. The primary tenets of our vision are to:

* Enrich the education and teaching experiences with innovative and creative approaches;
* Strengthen the culture of science, research, creativity, and innovation to become one of the leading research universities in the world; and to
* Contribute to shaping a better future through our academic, scientific, and cultural activities.

'''Mission'''

Boğaziçi University’s mission is to educate individuals who embrace it’s institutional values, who are able to think both creatively and critically, who are independent and egalitarian, who appreciate ethical values, who respect nature and are aware of environmental issues, who are rooted in the local and open to the global, and who can, with their self-confidence and scholarly, social and cultural foundations, successfully take on leadership positions anywhere in the world.

Boğaziçi University’s mission also encompasses producing universal thought, science, and technology in service of humanity, and playing a pioneering role in encouraging the spread of science, culture, and the arts throughout society.</div><div><br/></div>

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=== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship===
[[File:5bea6e3f2a8962.jpg|thumb|right|Bogazici Technopark]]
[[File:Ekran Resmi 2020-09-18 14.59.03.png|thumb|right|DreamBU]]
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University can be counted as one of the most innovative universities in Turkey. It has a culture which promotes students to colloborate and create changes in all fields. Besides this, diversity of student clubs encourage students to work on their interests. Almost all students are a member of at least of one student club, and this improves their creativity in these clubs by organizing events, and applying their skills. In the macro view, BRIGHT ( The Entrepreneurship Center) is running the entrepreneurship side of the school by giving a maker space for entrepreneurs, and funding them to innovate more.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ===
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University has always led Turkey to come up with new ideas firstly. For instance, the very first basketball game in Turkey was played in Boğaziçi University campus at 1904, and there are also many other examples. Thanks to this leadership, most succesfull students of the Turkey usually prefer to study in Boğaziçi University, this also helps instructors and professors to make their choice for Boğaziçi University. Because all these instructors and professors were educated abroad, there is an international atmosphere in the school. When all these aspects come together, faculties and their members are encouraged to innovate. </div>

=== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer Funciton ===
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University Technology Transfer Office's main goal is to convert business ideas into real startups with the help of TUBITAK Dream Bigg programme. They provide a high range of industrial network, professional mentorships, funding opportunities and coworking spaces provided by TTO's partner Bright Incubation Center. They do not only help social innovations but also student's high tech projects. They help getting patent and licence processes to BOUN students who own a business idea. They offer education on setting up a company and funding opportunities, and work with academicians and students who'll set up a company.</div><div><br/></div>

=== Facilitating University-Industry Colloboration ===
[[File:Unnamed-13.jpg|thumb|right|BUMED (Alumni Center)]]
<div><br/></div><div>Boğaziçi University is in deep connection with the main industries. There is a technopark which is opened in 2018 in an industrial park to improve the communication and cooperation with industries more. Moreover, some of the courses are sponsored by related companies to show the real life applications of the materials of the courses. There are also many student clubs which organize many events in partnership with different companies, and start-up. Thanks to these events, students can get the chance of finding internships, and to see what the companies are working about in detail.<br/><br/>

The Alumni Center (BUMED) is also a key part of the school in engaging with businesses by using alumni network. With that support; industries, and university members may be at the same place to collaborate in different topics. </div><div><br/></div>

=== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ===
<div><br/></div><div> Boğaziçi University has graduated many well-educated people in his 150 year history. Thanks to this capacity, the university is always a key part of the economy. Also its research opportunites gives professors to improve technology in many fields. As an example, the Coronavirus studies has helped economy by producing the test kit. There are also many other studies that helped Turkey in order to build a strong economy.
Additionally, the graduate Businesspeople had an association that facilitates the development process of the local private sector via a consultancy service which is called BRM. They also support social entrepreneurship programs and social entrepreneurs.
</div><div><br/></div>

=== Related Links ===

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Boğaziçi_University_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

==== Fall 2020 Cohort: ====

* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Arda#Social_media_profiles| Arda Ulutürk]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Haluk_Ziya_Tercan| Haluk Ziya Tercan]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Osman_Oğuz_Nuhoğlu| Osman Oğuz Nuhoğlu]
* [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Zişan_Özdemir| Zişan Özdemir]

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Fellow:Furkan Varol

2022-09-15T19:37:12Z

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==Bio==
We have something to learn from any being in life, but for me, the most precious and magical thing is the acquisition of others’ information that’s retained from their experience. Since childhood, I was a very curious kid asking my parents about any interesting thing that encountered and nothing changed when I grow up. My parents were replaced by searching on the internet and strangers that I ''believe'' they’ve got the answer namely professors, writers, philosophers, scientists, and, of course, locals that I encounter on the journey.
At first glance, it might seem it doesn’t worth mentioning ‘locals’ in this order but I firmly believe that being present in a brand new place that you have never been in is like being born again. This time you have facilitators of communication but nothing more. The locals or the materials you read, watch or listened to are your guide to experience the ‘place’ with eyes fully open, with curiosity. It is the source of inspiration to build yourself in any combination of paths you want to follow in other words creating your way.
That’s why I am on my way to selecting different paths to follow. When I was in high school I have never been away from my hometown for a long time. I started to investigate the instances that characterized the city in history. The forgotten ones were very attractive to me, and as an assistant to my high school history teacher Füsun Genç I started to investigate earthquakes and fires that occurred in Balıkesir (my hometown) for 2 years and our articles were accepted in Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. In the first path of the middle of adolescence, it was the professors and the newspapers that I found to gather information about the instance I want to learn more.
The second path came during my freshman year at university. The Covid-19 Pandemic locked all of us in houses and for me, there was a long summer ahead before the first year of university. The new adventures were calling me, I had to find a way to explore new things without even leaving the house so I started to read classical novels. In my entire life, I have never stayed physically inactive, so I also started to do yoga practices on YouTube, and take long walks in the forest near the house. It was the writers from whom I was fed during this time and my economics professor Mehtap Işık, she also suggested me many different books after the first academic year began for me.
I am still on the third path and it started with a 3-day Antalya trip to run a half marathon. I trained hard to be able to finish 21km without stopping. In addition to this, it was the first time I traveled so far from Istanbul. I liked the idea of attending an organization that involves physical activity and meanwhile traveling those places. Therefore I planned my next activity in the spring, I was going to attend a yoga retreat camp in Fethiye and I was expecting to learn how to do handstands. Unfortunately, it has been canceled the day before I hit the road. Anyways I didn’t cancel my trip and for the first time, I went to a place without any purpose, just to discover and all alone. In early June, my travels around Turkey started that way. I met with a yogi in Fethiye who lived in India for 2 years to learn the essence of yoga and now was turning back to his home country, France. Hanuman as he called himself taught me many concepts on traveling as well as yoga practices. From the inspiration I had from what he told me, I traveled to the southeastern part of Turkey, by myself. It was also my first time using an app called Couchsurfing which enables travelers to stay with locals for free. It was my thing, discovering new worlds under the guidance of locals and seeing new lifestyles in their place! Right now I want to focus on those trips and getting to know new people and see their lives to get inspiration for the next path I will follow!

==Achievements==
* Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey's Competition 2nd and 3rd place in south Marmara region in 2016 and 2017.
* A beginner solo backpacker.
* Crafter of gourd lamps and I have a store on Etsy: [https://www.etsy.com/shop/vibeanatolia vibeanatolia]
* Half marathon runner in Runtalya 2022
* Coirmaster in the jazz choir of Boğaziçi University 2022-2023

==Social media profiles==
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkan-varol2 Linkedin profile: Furkan Varol]
[https://www.instagram.com/varolfurkan2 Instagram profile: @varolfurkan2]
[https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/furkan-varol-3 Couchsurfing profile]

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Topic:X2fuq9rbj6hdseky

2022-09-03T09:45:31Z

Varolfurkan2 (talk | contribs) commented on "Boğaziçi University" (BOUN uses an online education platform called Moodle, there you can reach your faculty members' emails. There is an active Instagram acco...)

Resource talk:How to create a student innovation organization with clout

2022-09-03T08:03:41Z

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To start an organization with clout, it is best that students innovate to solve a problem or work around a known issue. By starting an organization with clout and intent, one gains a leg up on the challenges, while also entering with validity. Leveraging the clout can help students gain traction and membership faster, thus leading to a faster output.

== Comment - Maddy Branham ==

This roadmap is a great outline for how to successfully start an innovation organization on campus! Last year, we attempted to create an Innovation Club on campus, but unfortunately it did not turn out as originally planned. I think the first step is crucial to success. Without that core group of people who are fully committed, others will not be motivated to join. Social media is also a great way to connect with students who might be interested in being a part of it. I will definitely be using these tips if we decide to start an innovation organization on campus in the future!

== Comment - Furkan Varol ==

Social Media part of the Resource gave me inspiration to create two distinct organizations. I really see socail media very important becasue it is a way to declare you are present and what you are involved in with its evidences. As we learnt in teh Entrepreneurship Center's meetup frequency of contacting with your folowers is also very crucial. So whatever project you are involved in, you should use the media tools actively to give your work a presence in digital world o gain more followers and spread further inspiration for others to create even more developed projects.

Topic:X2fnk58rbvsxs53m

2022-09-03T07:36:46Z

Varolfurkan2 (talk | contribs) commented on "Furkan's Why" (My why's content has changed a lot in the years but now I have a main why in this life. Why not know yourself more in each situation you...)

Fellow:Eren Anter

2022-08-27T18:43:45Z

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==Bio==
Eren Anter was born and raised in İzmir. After completing his high school education in Izmir, he started higher education at Bogazici University and moved to Istanbul. He completed the preparatory class last year by passing the BUEPT (Bogazici University English Proficiency Test) with an A, the highest grade. Currently, he is in his first year of undergraduate education at Bogazici University studying Political Science and International Relations.

In his high school years, he was an enterprising, proactive, and multitasking student. The extensive readings in many different disciplines that he started in the 10th grade were noticed by his teachers. Thanks to his predisposition in philosophy, he participated in the 24th Turkish Philosophy Olympics and organized a series of seminars in his school to increase the awareness of high school students about philosophy. In the meanwhile, he was the vocalist and the guitarist of his school band for a year and attended many high school music competitions.

Last year, he attended the YetGen project, which is a 21. Century Skills education program where he acquired basic career skills such as career planning, presentation techniques, teamwork, Excel, and introduction to coding. Also, in an entrepreneurship competition held in YetGen, called GirişGen, his team's business idea was selected as one of the top 20 startup ideas under his leadership. As a reward, he had the opportunity to give a 1-minute elevator speech in the YetGen live broadcast, watched by more than a thousand people. He considers this program as an igniter for himself where he added a lot of skills to his skillset such as presentation techniques, teamwork, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Also, he has been publishing videos on a Youtube channel named "Kumsal ve Eren" (15K+ Subs). The main purpose of this channel is to raise awareness among Turkish high school students about the university exam. He developed his academic coaching system and has been mentoring for over a year and worked with more than 30 students with flexible hours. Likewise, he was a content creator and a member of Youtube Opencall at BÜYAK (Bogazici University Operations and Research Club).

Recently, he is a Bright Fellow at Bright (Bogazici University Entrepreneurship Center) since he successfully completed the Fire Up Changemakers Program where Design Thinking methods such as creating "HMW" questions, Personas, Empathy Map, Business Model Canvas, Prototyping, and Brainstorming are taught to students and he was chosen as a candidate for Stanford UIF Program. He holds meetings at Bright with his team to spread the entrepreneurial spirit to his campus and support entrepreneurs at Bogazici University under the leadership of Oguzhan Aygoren, the faculty champion.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==
'''''Please do not hesitate to get in contact with me!'''''

● For Linkedin, which I use too often, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erenanter/

● For Instagram, which I use most frequently, please visit: https://www.instagram.com/erenanterr/

● For Facebook, which I use rarely, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/ern.antr

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User:Varolfurkan2

2022-08-27T15:55:39Z

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Fellow:Furkan Varol

2022-08-27T15:55:38Z

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==Bio==
We have something to learn from any being in life, but for me, the most precious and magical thing is the acquisition of others’ information that’s retained from their experience. Since childhood, I was a very curious kid asking my parents about any interesting thing that encountered and nothing changed when I grow up. My parents were replaced by searching on the internet and strangers that I ''believe'' they’ve got the answer namely professors, writers, philosophers, scientists, and, of course, locals that I encounter on the journey.
At first glance, it might seem it doesn’t worth mentioning ‘locals’ in this order but I firmly believe that being present in a brand new place that you have never been in is like being born again. This time you have facilitators of communication but nothing more. The locals or the materials you read, watch or listened to are your guide to experience the ‘place’ with eyes fully open, with curiosity. It is the source of inspiration to build yourself in any combination of paths you want to follow in other words creating your way.
That’s why I am on my way to selecting different paths to follow. When I was in high school I have never been away from my hometown for a long time. I started to investigate the instances that characterized the city in history. The forgotten ones were very attractive to me, and as an assistant to my high school history teacher Füsun Genç I started to investigate earthquakes and fires that occurred in Balıkesir (my hometown) for 2 years and our articles were accepted in Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. In the first path of the middle of adolescence, it was the professors and the newspapers that I found to gather information about the instance I want to learn more.
The second path came during my freshman year at university. The Covid-19 Pandemic locked all of us in houses and for me, there was a long summer ahead before the first year of university. The new adventures were calling me, I had to find a way to explore new things without even leaving the house so I started to read classical novels. In my entire life, I have never stayed physically inactive, so I also started to do yoga practices on YouTube, and take long walks in the forest near the house. It was the writers from whom I was fed during this time and my economics professor Mehtap Işık, she also suggested me many different books after the first academic year began for me.
I am still on the third path and it started with a 3-day Antalya trip to run a half marathon. I trained hard to be able to finish 21km without stopping. In addition to this, it was the first time I traveled so far from Istanbul. I liked the idea of attending an organization that involves physical activity and meanwhile traveling those places. Therefore I planned my next activity in the spring, I was going to attend a yoga retreat camp in Fethiye and I was expecting to learn how to do handstands. Unfortunately, it has been canceled the day before I hit the road. Anyways I didn’t cancel my trip and for the first time, I went to a place without any purpose, just to discover and all alone. In early June, my travels around Turkey started that way. I met with a yogi in Fethiye who lived in India for 2 years to learn the essence of yoga and now was turning back to his home country, France. Hanuman as he called himself taught me many concepts on traveling as well as yoga practices. From the inspiration I had from what he told me, I traveled to the southeastern part of Turkey, by myself. It was also my first time using an app called Couchsurfing which enables travelers to stay with locals for free. It was my thing, discovering new worlds under the guidance of locals and seeing new lifestyles in their place! Right now I want to focus on those trips and getting to know new people and see their lives to get inspiration for the next path I will follow!

==Achievements==
* Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey's Competition 2nd and 3rd place in south Marmara region in 2016 and 2017.
* A beginner solo backpacker.
* Crafter of gourd lamps and I have a store on Etsy: [https://www.etsy.com/shop/vibeanatolia vibeanatolia]
* Half marathon runner in Runtalya 2022
* Solist in the jazz choir of Boğaziçi University 2022

==Social media profiles==
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkan-varol2 Linkedin profile: Furkan Varol]
[https://www.instagram.com/varolfurkan2 Instagram profile: @varolfurkan2]
[https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/furkan-varol-3 Couchsurfing profile]

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2022-08-27T15:12:45Z

Varolfurkan2: