University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2019-05-25T23:12:39Z

Venverloo:

<div>[[File:UIF Ignite Titus Venverloo.jpg|Titus Venverloo delivering his Ignite during the 2019 SVM]] </div><div>Within his studies Titus has an emphasis on sustainable urban development. The University of Twente offers a unique undergraduate honours programme called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social sciences. ATLAS is a project-based and student-centered bachelors, with a very international character. This programme also encourages students to go beyond just learning, it aims to provide hands-on experience with conducting research, tackling real-world problems and making an impact. </div><div> </div><div>In his first year at ATLAS he was nominated by the dean of ATLAS to partake in the UIF programme, after he completed a research project into sustainable mobility in Curitiba, Brazil. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab's design thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.</div>
In his second year, he continued with other study related projects about urban development, smart and resilient cities and mobility. Besides his studies, he is an active member of the UIF UTwente team where he was in charge of organizing the first 4-day UIF European Meetup. During this 4-day meetup the UIF UTwente team aimed to let the UIFs experience the University of Twente’s way of working, thinking and producing solutions and ideas. By using design thinking methodologies developed by our DesignLab, participants will be equipped with artifacts and skills they can use immediately when they return to their university. For more information about the meetup for 2019 check out our website: [https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup].

He is currently in his final year at ATLAS. His final year is mainly abroad, he started at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for the first semester and currently he is doing his bachelor's thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Senseable City Lab. Additionally, while doing his Bachelor's thesis he travelled to Stanford for a second time to help organize the annual UIF Silicon Valley Meetup.

= Related Links =

[[University of Twente]]

[[University of Twente Student Priorities]]

Fall 2017

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Rianne Hagen]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

[[TItus Venverloo]]

==== '''Fall 2016''' ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

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

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

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

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

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

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

File:UIF Ignite Titus Venverloo.jpg

2019-05-25T23:11:15Z

Venverloo:

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2019-05-25T23:04:56Z

Venverloo:

<div> </div><div>Within his studies Titus has an emphasis on sustainable urban development. The University of Twente offers a unique undergraduate honours programme called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social sciences. ATLAS is a project-based and student-centered bachelors, with a very international character. This programme also encourages students to go beyond just learning, it aims to provide hands-on experience with conducting research, tackling real-world problems and making an impact.</div>
In his first year at ATLAS he was nominated by the dean of ATLAS to partake in the UIF programme, after he completed a research project into sustainable mobility in Curitiba, Brazil. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab's design thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.

In his second year, he continued with other study related projects about urban development, smart and resilient cities and mobility. Besides his studies, he is an active member of the UIF UTwente team where he was in charge of organizing the first 4-day UIF European Meetup. During this 4-day meetup the UIF UTwente team aimed to let the UIFs experience the University of Twente’s way of working, thinking and producing solutions and ideas. By using design thinking methodologies developed by our DesignLab, participants will be equipped with artifacts and skills they can use immediately when they return to their university. For more information about the meetup for 2019 check out our website: [https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup].

He is currently in his final year at ATLAS. His final year is mainly abroad, he started at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for the first semester and currently he is doing his bachelor's thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Senseable City Lab. Additionally, while doing his Bachelor's thesis he travelled to Stanford for a second time to help organize the annual UIF Silicon Valley Meetup.

= Related Links =

[[University of Twente]]

[[University of Twente Student Priorities]]

Fall 2017

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Rianne Hagen]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

[[TItus Venverloo]]

==== '''Fall 2016''' ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

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

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

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

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

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

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2018-04-15T11:39:42Z

Venverloo:

<div>http://universityinnovation.org/images/4/40/Img2276.JPG</div><div> </div><div>As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable urban development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente. The University of Twente offers a unique undergraduate honours programme called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social sciences. ATLAS is a project-based and student-centered bachelors, with a very international character. This programme also encourages students to go beyond just learning, it aims to provide hands-on experience with conducting research, tackling real-world problems and making an impact.</div>
In his first year at ATLAS he was nominated by the dean of ATLAS to partake in the UIF programme, after he completed a research project into sustainable mobility in Curitiba, Brazil. This research project started with writing a socio-technical scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil. This scenario described a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. After completing the desk research, the team flew out to Brazil and investigated what the best approach was to implement this culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.

In his second year, he continued with other study related projects about urban development, smart and resilient cities and mobility. Besides his studies, he is an active member of the UIF Utwente team where he is currently in charge of organizing the first 4-day UIF European Meetup. During this 4-day meetup the UIF Utwente team aims to let the UIFs experience the University of Twente’s way of working, thinking and producing solutions and ideas. By using design thinking methodologies developed by our DesignLab, participants will be equipped with artifacts and skills they can use immediately when they return to their university. For more information about the meetup check out our website: [https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup].

He is also planning his third year at ATLAS, which is intended to provide additional international experiences. He will start his year at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, after which he will do his bachelor's thesis at MIT's Seanseable City Lab.

= Related Links =

[[University of Twente]]

[[University of Twente Student Priorities]]

Fall 2017

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Rianne Hagen]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

[[TItus Venverloo]]

==== '''Fall 2016''' ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

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

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

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

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

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

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2018-04-15T11:38:56Z

Venverloo:

http://universityinnovation.org/images/4/40/Img2276.JPG
<div> </div><div>As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable urban development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente. The University of Twente offers a unique undergraduate honours programme called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social sciences. ATLAS is a project-based and student-centered bachelors, with a very international character. This programme also encourages students to go beyond just learning, it aims to provide hands-on experience with conducting research, tackling real-world problems and making an impact.</div>
In his first year at ATLAS he was nominated by the dean of ATLAS to partake in the UIF programme, after he completed a research project into sustainable mobility in Curitiba, Brazil. This research project started with writing a socio-technical scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil. This scenario described a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. After completing the desk research, the team flew out to Brazil and investigated what the best approach was to implement this culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.

In his second year, he continued with other study related projects about urban development, smart and resilient cities and mobility. Besides his studies, he is an active member of the UIF Utwente team where he is currently in charge of organizing the first 4-day UIF European Meetup. During this 4-day meetup the UIF Utwente team aims to let the UIFs experience the University of Twente’s way of working, thinking and producing solutions and ideas. By using design thinking methodologies developed by our DesignLab, participants will be equipped with artifacts and skills they can use immediately when they return to their university. For more information about the meetup check out our website: https://universityinnovationfellows.eu/meetup.

He is also planning his third year at ATLAS, which is intended to provide additional international experiences. He will start his year at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, after which he will do his bachelor's thesis at MIT's Seanseable City Lab.

= Related Links =

[[University of Twente]]

[[University of Twente Student Priorities]]

Fall 2017

[[Sevim Aktas]]

[[Rianne Hagen]]

[[Wim Kamerman]]

[[TItus Venverloo]]

==== '''Fall 2016''' ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

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

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

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

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

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

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

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2018-04-15T11:16:43Z

Venverloo:

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2018-04-15T11:12:08Z

Venverloo:

Priorities:University of Twente Student Priorities

2017-10-09T11:07:41Z

Venverloo:

== Project Pitch Video Spring 2016 ==

[https://youtu.be/oJ6BNYDalOo https://youtu.be/oJ6BNYDalOo]

== Spring 2016 Priorities ==

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

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

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

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

  * think about why they are here!

  * develop a personal identity.

  * set their own personal goals.

  * select their assignments and work on these goals.

  * develop their own moral compass.

  * try something new more often.

  * stimulate their own curiosity.

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

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

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

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

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

The aspects above can be summarized by 4 simple goals.

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

            2. A need for self-development!

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

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

== Mid-term and long-term goals ==
<div>The University Innovation fellows present in Twente needs to be established. (Mid 2017) While there are many students run organizations none of them work in this context. Therefore, it is very important that the presence of the UIF committee and students are consistent and well established across the various parties across campus.</div><div>The first project associated with this is to hold launch event(s) and brainstorm sessions with various parties, in order to get our name out there.</div><div>Subsequent to this initial goal the UIF-Twente team needs to become a well-trusted institution on campus. Essentially, requiring the development of a UIF-Twente brand. This aspect is very important to assure the future effectiveness of this project. It is very difficult to determine a fixed milestone for this project, however, within one and a half years (early 2018) UIF should be a well-established name.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
== Subsequent steps to establish a students self-development as the focus of the UIF program ==
<div>In the first brainstorm session, the necessity for support for early’s students self-development was established.</div><div>Establishing a space a center and sanctuary for self-development. </div><div> </div><div>One approach towards stimulating self-development is offering students feedback and a safe place within which to receive this feedback. The DesignLab at this university could fulfill this function admirably. The goal is to establish this space connected to an easy and repetitive schedule with the ideas of self-driven learning as well as an ethical and moral understanding of once impact. No later than February 2017 should relate events start taking place in the DesignLab. This should allow students to get in touch with the program by the end of the academic year(July 2017).</div><div> </div><div>
== Project Pitch Video Spring 2017 ==
<div>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMEI7CvrQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMEI7CvrQU] </div></div>
== Spring 2017 Priorities ==
<div>
The collaboration between the university as an organization and the university as a research facility is at the moment not as good as it could be. Many resources such as the knowledge and skills of students are not considered. The university is rather seeking help for the realizations of inside projects from outside companies and is therefore not using the talent that is right in front of them.

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

The main goals we try to reach are:
 <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Awareness about all the possibilities the University holds for its students, researchers and staff, especially in areas of self-development, where students take control of their skillset development.</li>
<li>Collaboration between staff, students and research in terms of resources as well as in term of skills and knowledge.</li>
<li>Create an atmosphere where it feels natural for university to have many on-site projects run by students. A university where facilities and events are run by students can take real pride in their entrepreunerial students.</li>
</ul>
</div>
== Steps improve collaboration and communication within UT organizations, students, researchers and staff members ==
<div></div><div>
In order to create an atmosphere of greater collaboration between the different members of the University we would like to propose different projects.
 <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Week of possibilities</li>
<li>Student pool</li>
<li>Add paragraph to Newsletter about board decisions and use platform such as Loomio so that students can add their opinions and suggestions.</li>
</ul>

=== Week of Possibilities ===

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

=== Student Pool ===

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

=== News of UT board ===

Our final priority would be to focus on the lack of communication and collaboration between the board of the university and the students and staff. We would like to have discussion with the UT news and the board about possibly adding a paragraph on the board’s decisions to the end of the monthly student newsletter. We would then like to set up a page on a platform such as loomio, for us to reiterate what that paragraph states and allows students to provide their opinions and suggestions. This format of a pool could enable the board to obtain a more all-encompassing view of what the student body thinks.
<div>
== Fall 2017 Priorities ==
<div><div> </div><div>The main goals we try to reach are: </div>
*<div>Enhance the collaboration between Dutch and international students, bring them together and create an welcoming and comfortable atmosphere for them.</div>
*<div>Increase the rate of international students in extracurricular activities</div>
*<div>Raise awareness to about the wide variety of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities </div>
<div> </div></div>
== Prototypes for better integration of internationals ==
<div>We would like to propose 4 projects to contribute to these goals:</div><div><div> </div>
Buddy Programme
<div> </div><div>The buddy programme is introduced to close the gap between culture and study associations that are existing on campus. At the moment, those associations are not cooperating. In order to change this and create a connection between the international and Dutch students in those associations, the buddy programme is introduced. Here, the associations are meant to unite their forces to organize an event together where students come together, meet, connect and share insights.</div>
Once a year, one study and one culture association are going to be picked randomly. Those are meant to work together towards a workshop/ event/ meetup/ drinks. Thereby, they are free to cooperate with the University’s culture department which can support the event with resources.

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

=== '''Add on to Campus App''' ===

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

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

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

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

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

=== University Website ===

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

=== Wiki pages ===

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

=== University Innovation Fellows ===

==== Fall 2016 ====

[[Marjanne Luinstra|Marjanne Luinstra]]

[[David Goedicke|David Goedicke]]

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

[[Arian Hohmann|Arian Hohmann]]

'''Spring 2017'''

[[Elisabeth de Vijlder|Elisabeth de Vijlder]]

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

[[Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn|Mélanie Droogleever Fortuyn]]

[[Sarah Roediger|Sarah Roediger]]

'''Fall 2017'''

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

[[Rianne Hagen|Rianne Hagen]]

[[Titus Venverloo|Titus Venverloo]]

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

[[File:UniversityOfTwenteSign.jpeg]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Resource:How to organize student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups

2017-09-11T07:11:18Z

Venverloo:

'''Introduction'''

For the question: ‘How to organise student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups?’, a team of candidate University Innovation Fellow interviewed [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grant_Jacoby Grant Jacoby.] Grant is the former president of Enactus, an international community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of social entrepreneurship to enable human progress. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a bachelor’s of science and business administration. Currently he is working for SurveyMonkey in the San Francisco area. During this interview Grant gave many interesting insight in how to create student consulting teams, and how to promote the events a fellow might organize concerning this topic. A brief summary of all the discussed topics can be found below.

'''Why do we need student consulting team and what do students get out of it?'''

Students in higher education need an avenue to practice and further explore concepts discussed in class in a real world setting. In an ever competitive world, it is becoming more and more important to enter the workforce with unique experiences and strong relationships within their environment. A student consulting group provides a hands on opportunity for students to engage in their community while also gaining leadership experience and broadening their personal network. As a consulting group, there is a large variety of types of companies students can work with - this allows students to expand their knowledge and skills in areas they might not have an opportunity to do so otherwise.

'''Who should you reach out to, for setting up student consulting teams?'''

When starting a group, you should first reach out to 3-4 peers who have a similar interest and passion for starting a group. Ideally, the founding group is composed of students from different backgrounds, majors, and skillsets. While marketing on campus, target students should be to students who are freshmen and sophomores from different majors, backgrounds, and skillsets as well. A consulting group will most likely bring in students from the design, business, and engineering students, but the more variety, the better. Within the university, you reach out to as many relevant faculty and administration members. The more support from internal operations, the more likely the group will be successful. This will also allow awareness of the group to spread more quickly and also increase probability in receiving grants and/or university funding.

'''What types of support are necessary to get your student consulting team started'''

*For a beginning student consulting organisation, it is important to have the support of faculty members from your university. A strategy to contact faculty, administrative staff, deans is to prepare a very professional presentation (including the mission, goal, value proposition, how the project will impact positively the university community, the people involved, the funds requested and a detailed report on how the money is going to be spent).
*The connection with ENACTUS (or other external network / consulting association) is a great way to get funding and support / successful model. Being a consulting branch of a bigger association might be a good strategy.
*Find external partners for support among alumni who can connect you with organizations and communities, or even sponsor an event. At the same time, these organization may recruit the best students / students interested in entrepreneurship.
*Find opportunities - contact local business and entrepreneurs offering support and consulting from students.

'''Strategies'''

Key strategies to form and market the student consulting organization:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Find a core group of students who care about entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Network with faculty members to provide support throughout the process, eventually they will help connecting to the dean (and get financial support).</li>
<li>Marketing campaign in campus should include flyers/posters, website/social media, and a dedicated time of physical presence in different places in campus to connect with diverse students</li>
<li>Mini-pitch competitions as a way to pool people together (consulting mini competitions around a social subject/problem in the community), then present the consulting association to students.</li>
</ol>

'''What are the costs of running a student consulting organisation?'''

Jacoby’s organisation had a top-down funding support, the university contacted them to help solve specific problem in the community. It was something around $ 20 K a year, but we could run a similar project with $ 5-10K - that you will request to our university by presenting the number of people will be impacted and how the organisation intends to influence change on the community.

'''How do you decide who should (help) lead the organisation'''

With any startup it is important to find individuals interested in the same thing as you are. Determine together what the mission is so you have a shared goal; in this instance the shared goal was to help the community through consulting efforts. The individuals united to push this initiative.

'''What kind of connections are helpful to get started?'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Top down support is ideal from university, easier to be funded, ideally dean</li>
<li>Get as many people involved as possible, draw from a diverse student population, more ideas are generated from different perspectives</li>
<li>Reach out to alumni who are involved in startups</li>
<li>Connect with corporations that are looking to hire entrepreneurial students</li>
</ul>

'''How do you promote and launch your organisation and events'''

For setting up student consulting teams it is important to promote the events where you get your target audience together. Using traditional flyers where you announce the event, location, time, and a reward (can be simple 10-20$ gifts or free food), and handing them out usually gets people to turn up. Besides this, you can create social media accounts where you can promote your events to students and stakeholders. An important rule is to not be afraid to talk and send emails to random people, try to pitch your events and projects as much as possible, they might say no and not be interested, but that is fine. You only need one yes! Also try to use your network, try to get as many people involved as possible. Post your events in old chats, facebook groups or anything else, they might just show up to your events.

'''Lessons learned and tips for others'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Cast a wide net to reach out to as many students as possible (usually with free food and prizes!)<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Promote organization as much as possible (flyer, tabling)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Focus on one central problem within local area</li>
<li>Talk to as many organizations, “no” is okay, “yes” opens the door to many opportunities</li>
<li>Find an organization on campus that can be your vessel for consultation groups</li>
</ul>

'''Written By:'''

Tejaswini Perikala

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jordan_King Jordan King]

Najla Mouchrek

[[Titus_Venverloo|Titus_Venverloo]]

Ben Hinkel

Roohi Katarya

Haritha nara

Resource:How to organize student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups

2017-09-10T20:54:54Z

Venverloo:

How to organize student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups (in-progress)

'''Intro'''

For the question: ‘How to organise student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups?’, a team of candidate University Innovation Fellow interviewed Grant Jacoby. Grant is the former president of Enactus, an international community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of social entrepreneurship to enable human progress. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a bachelor’s of science and business administration. Currently he is working for SurveyMonkey in the San Francisco area. During this interview Grant gave many interesting insight in how to create student consulting teams, and how to promote the events a fellow might organize concerning this topic. A brief summary of all the discussed topics can be found below.

'''Why do we need student consulting team and what do students get out of it?'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Hands on opportunity for students to engage in their community</li>
<li>Greater learning experience - students become more well rounded</li>
<li>More leadership experience</li>
<li>More attractive as a job candidate - have real experience</li>
<li>Networking opportunity</li>
</ul>

'''Who should you reach out to for setting up student consulting teams?'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Students - undergrad and graduate</li>
<li>All backgrounds who are interested in consulting - design, business, and engineering primarily</li>
<li>All ages - variety of skillsets<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>When starting the group, target freshman + sophomores</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

'''What types of support are necessary to get your student consulting team started'''

For a beginning student consulting organisation, it is important to have the support of faculty members from your university. A strategy to contact faculty, administrative staff, deans is to prepare a very professional presentation (including the mission, goal, value proposition, how the project will impact positively the university community, the people involved, the funds requested and a detailed report on how the money is going to be spent).

The connection with ENACTUS (or other external network / consulting association) is a great way to get funding and support / successful model. Being a consulting branch of a bigger association might be a good strategy.

Find external partners for support among alumni who can connect you with organizations and communities, or even sponsor an event. At the same time, these organization may recruit the best students / students interested in entrepreneurship

Find opportunities - contact local business and entrepreneurs offering support and consulting from students

'''Strategies'''

Key strategies to form and market the student consulting organization:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Find a core group of students who care about entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Network with faculty members to provide support throughout the process, eventually they will help connecting to the dean (and get financial support).</li>
<li>Marketing campaign in campus should include flyers (good visual + convey basic information + good time of physical presence in different places in campus and connecting with diverse students + website + posters + facebook</li>
<li>Mini-pitch competitions as a way to pool people together (consulting mini competitions around a social subject/problem in the community), then present the consulting association.</li>
</ol>

'''What are the costs of running a student consulting organisation?'''

Jacoby’s organisation had a top-down funding support, the university contacted them to help solve specific problem in the community. It was something around $ 20 K a year, but we could run a similar project with $ 5-10K - that you will request to our university by presenting the number of people will be impacted and how the organisation intends to influence change on the community.

'''How do you decide who should (help) lead the organisation'''

With any startup it is important to find individuals interested in the same thing as you are. Determine together what the mission is so you have a shared goal; in this instance the shared goal was to help the community through consulting efforts. The individuals united to push this initiative.

'''What kind of connections are helpful to get started?'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Top down support is ideal from university, easier to be funded, ideally dean</li>
<li>Get as many people involved as possible, draw from a diverse student population, more ideas are generated from different perspectives</li>
<li>Reach out to alumni who are involved in startups</li>
<li>Connect with corporations that are looking to hire entrepreneurial students</li>
</ul>

'''How do you promote and launch your organisation and events'''

For setting up student consulting teams it is important to promote the events where you get your target audience together. Using traditional flyers where you announce the event, location, time, and a reward (can be simple 10-20$ gifts or free food), and handing them out usually gets people to turn up. Besides this, you can create social media accounts where you can promote your events to students and stakeholders. An important rule is to not be afraid to talk and send emails to random people, try to pitch your events and projects as much as possible, they might say no and not be interested, but that is fine. You only need one yes! Also try to use your network, try to get as many people involved as possible. Post your events in old chats, facebook groups or anything else, they might just show up to your events.

'''Lessons learned and tips for others'''
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Cast a wide net to reach out to as many students as possible (usually with free food and prizes!)<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>Promote organization as much as possible (flyer, tabling)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Focus on one central problem within local area</li>
<li>Talk to as many organizations, “no” is okay, “yes” opens the door to many opportunities</li>
<li>Find an organization on campus that can be your vessel for consultation groups</li>
</ul>

'''Written By:'''

[[Tejaswini Perikala]]

[[Jordan King]]

[[Najla Mouchrek]]

[[Titus Venverloo]] [[Ben Hinkel]]

[[Roohi Katarya]]

[[Haritha nara]]

Resource:How to organize student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups

2017-09-10T20:52:28Z

Venverloo:

How to organize student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups (in-progress)

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Intro
</li>
</ul>

For the question: ‘How to organise student consulting teams that help underprivileged startups?’, a team of candidate University Innovation Fellow interviewed Grant Jacoby. Grant is the former president of Enactus, an international community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of social entrepreneurship to enable human progress. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a bachelor’s of science and business administration. Currently he is working for SurveyMonkey in the San Francisco area. During this interview Grant gave many interesting insight in how to create student consulting teams, and how to promote the events a fellow might organize concerning this topic. A brief summary of all the discussed topics can be found below.

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Why do we need student consulting team and what do students get out of it?
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Hands on opportunity for students to engage in their community
</li>
<li>
Greater learning experience - students become more well rounded
</li>
<li>
More leadership experience
</li>
<li>
More attractive as a job candidate - have real experience
</li>
<li>
Networking opportunity
</li>
</ul>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Who should you reach out to for setting up student consulting teams?
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Students - undergrad and graduate
</li>
<li>
All backgrounds who are interested in consulting - design, business, and engineering primarily
</li>
<li>
All ages - variety of skillsets
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
When starting the group, target freshman + sophomores
</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>




<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
What types of support are necessary to get your student consulting team started
</li>
</ul>

For a beginning student consulting organisation, it is important to have the support of faculty members from your university. A strategy to contact faculty, administrative staff, deans is to prepare a very professional presentation (including the mission, goal, value proposition, how the project will impact positively the university community, the people involved, the funds requested and a detailed report on how the money is going to be spent).

The connection with ENACTUS (or other external network / consulting association) is a great way to get funding and support / successful model. Being a consulting branch of a bigger association might be a good strategy.

Find external partners for support among alumni who can connect you with organizations and communities, or even sponsor an event. At the same time, these organization may recruit the best students / students interested in entrepreneurship

Find opportunities - contact local business and entrepreneurs offering support and consulting from students

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Strategies
</li>
</ul>

Key strategies to form and market the student consulting organization:
<ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Find a core group of students who care about entrepreneurship
</li>
<li>
Network with faculty members to provide support throughout the process, eventually they will help connecting to the dean (and get financial support).
</li>
<li>
Marketing campaign in campus should include flyers (good visual + convey basic information + good time of physical presence in different places in campus and connecting with diverse students + website + posters + facebook
</li>
<li>
Mini-pitch competitions as a way to pool people together (consulting mini competitions around a social subject/problem in the community), then present the consulting association.
</li>
</ol>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
What are the costs of running a student consulting organisation?
</li>
</ul>

Jacoby’s organisation had a top-down funding support, the university contacted them to help solve specific problem in the community. It was something around $ 20 K a year, but we could run a similar project with $ 5-10K - that you will request to our university by presenting the number of people will be impacted and how the organisation intends to influence change on the community.

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
How do you decide who should (help) lead the organisation
</li>
</ul>

With any startup it is important to find individuals interested in the same thing as you are. Determine together what the mission is so you have a shared goal; in this instance the shared goal was to help the community through consulting efforts. The individuals united to push this initiative.

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
What kind of connections are helpful to get started?
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Top down support is ideal from university, easier to be funded, ideally dean
</li>
<li>
Get as many people involved as possible, draw from a diverse student population, more ideas are generated from different perspectives
</li>
<li>
Reach out to alumni who are involved in startups
</li>
<li>
Connect with corporations that are looking to hire entrepreneurial students
</li>
</ul>




<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Launch / Promotion (How do you promote and launch your organisation and events)
</li>
</ul>

For setting up student consulting teams it is important to promote the events where you get your target audience together. Using traditional flyers where you announce the event, location, time, and a reward (can be simple 10-20$ gifts or free food), and handing them out usually gets people to turn up. Besides this, you can create social media accounts where you can promote your events to students and stakeholders. An important rule is to not be afraid to talk and send emails to random people, try to pitch your events and projects as much as possible, they might say no and not be interested, but that is fine. You only need one yes! Also try to use your network, try to get as many people involved as possible. Post your events in old chats, facebook groups or anything else, they might just show up to your events.

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Lessons learned and tips for others
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Cast a wide net to reach out to as many students as possible (usually with free food and prizes!)
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li>
Promote organization as much as possible (flyer, tabling)
</li>
</ul></li>
<li>
Focus on one central problem within local area
</li>
<li>
Talk to as many organizations, “no” is okay, “yes” opens the door to many opportunities
</li>
<li>
Find an organization on campus that can be your vessel for consultation groups
</li>
</ul>

'''Written By:'''

[[Tejaswini Perikala]]

[[Jordan King]]

[[Najla Mouchrek]]

[[Titus Venverloo]] [[Ben Hinkel]]

[[Roohi Katarya]]

[[Haritha nara]]

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2017-09-10T20:26:41Z

Venverloo:

[[File:Titus1.JPG]]

As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente, this university offers a unique undergraduate honours programme under the faculty University College Twente, called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social science courses. This programme is based around project based learning, so every semester has a special focus. 

During the first semester of ATLAS, he developed a special interest in the field of sustainable development and conducting research, which in the second semester, extended into a project on sustainable mobility. This project consisted of writing a scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil, describing a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The extension of this project was going to Curitiba, and conducting research into the interests and goals of the various stakeholders involved in Curitiba’s mobility sector. From June 2017 to the beginning of September 2017, the Curitiba Crew conducted research in Curitiba with the aid of leading experts in the field. During the research, the project team aimed not to only investigate the stakeholders, but also design solutions together with the stakeholders. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2017-09-10T20:26:13Z

Venverloo:

http://universityinnovation.org/images/1/11/Titus1.JPG

As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente, this university offers a unique undergraduate honours programme under the faculty University College Twente, called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social science courses. This programme is based around project based learning, so every semester has a special focus. 

During the first semester of ATLAS, he developed a special interest in the field of sustainable development and conducting research, which in the second semester, extended into a project on sustainable mobility. This project consisted of writing a scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil, describing a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The extension of this project was going to Curitiba, and conducting research into the interests and goals of the various stakeholders involved in Curitiba’s mobility sector. From June 2017 to the beginning of September 2017, the Curitiba Crew conducted research in Curitiba with the aid of leading experts in the field. During the research, the project team aimed not to only investigate the stakeholders, but also design solutions together with the stakeholders. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2017-09-10T20:25:54Z

Venverloo:

As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente, this university offers[[File:Titus1.JPG]] a unique undergraduate honours programme under the faculty University College Twente, called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social science courses. This programme is based around project based learning, so every semester has a special focus. 

During the first semester of ATLAS, he developed a special interest in the field of sustainable development and conducting research, which in the second semester, extended into a project on sustainable mobility. This project consisted of writing a scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil, describing a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The extension of this project was going to Curitiba, and conducting research into the interests and goals of the various stakeholders involved in Curitiba’s mobility sector. From June 2017 to the beginning of September 2017, the Curitiba Crew conducted research in Curitiba with the aid of leading experts in the field. During the research, the project team aimed not to only investigate the stakeholders, but also design solutions together with the stakeholders. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.

File:Titus1.JPG

2017-09-10T20:25:24Z

Venverloo:

File:Titus.jpeg

2017-09-10T20:21:58Z

Venverloo:

Fellow:Titus Venverloo

2017-09-10T20:12:42Z

Venverloo: Entrepreneurial Student interested in the combination between Technology and social sciences

As student intrigued with many subjects, with an emphasis on sustainable development. Currently enrolled at The University of Twente, this university offers a unique undergraduate honours programme under the faculty University College Twente, called Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences (ATLAS), which is a combination of engineering and social science courses. This programme is based around project based learning, so every semester has a special focus. 

During the first semester of ATLAS, he developed a special interest in the field of sustainable development and conducting research, which in the second semester, extended into a project on sustainable mobility. This project consisted of writing a scenario for the City of Curitiba, Brazil, describing a feasible chain of events towards implementing a culture of sustainable mobility. The project team, referred to as the Curitiba Crew, was awarded best ATLAS semester project of the academic year 2016-2017. The extension of this project was going to Curitiba, and conducting research into the interests and goals of the various stakeholders involved in Curitiba’s mobility sector. From June 2017 to the beginning of September 2017, the Curitiba Crew conducted research in Curitiba with the aid of leading experts in the field. During the research, the project team aimed not to only investigate the stakeholders, but also design solutions together with the stakeholders. The Curitiba Crew did this with the aid of DesignLab thinking, the method used and developed by the DesignLab at the University of Twente, which is a collaborative facility for students to ideate, conceptualise and prototype solutions. It is also one of the startup incubators at the university. To round off the project, the stakeholders in Curitiba were invited to a meeting and a workshop on ideation and conceptualisation related to the mobility issues in the city.