<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">[[File:BFBSIMG 9764.jpeg|border|IMG 9764.jpgjpeg]]Mine Hazal Şenol is an undergraduate law student with defacto International Relations minor in [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Koç_University Koç University], Istanbul, Turkey. Even though her main interest areas are Criminal Law and Human Rights, she is also interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. Her main motivation while deciding what major to study was law school could allow her to be the change of the world she wanted to see as a representative of justice. This motivation also led her to be an innovator and coming up with ideas that would solve the inconveniences.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Her journey on I&E started while she were a high schooler in her hometown, Izmir. In 2011, she attended Young Innovative Entrepreneurship Project ,funded by Turkish Education Association and Embassy of United States; developed, prototyped and notarised [https://www.linkedin.com/in/minehazalsenol/detail/treasury/education:298825086/?entityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_treasuryMedia%3A(ACoAABhr11EBJSSyjqKEcFLFrJqMH2Tkp0pe7dA%2C50784627)&locale=en_US OXUS], a dishwasher shelf with a forklift working platform.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">In her first year in university, she attended a leadership program that introduced her to design thinking, human-cantered design, funding methods and storytelling ,GEC.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size'''Institution:larger;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">She is member of Chairs Committee of '''Koç University Global Aid program which tries to find sustainable solutions for the most common global problems. She developed two projects; first aimed solving the language barrier and its effects on integration process that Syrian Refugees located mainly in , Istanbul and the other project were issuing booklets, children books, cartons and informative films on Children’s Sexual Abuse. She organised a [http://www.cnnturk.com/video/yasam/gonullu-gencler-binlerce-cocugu-mutlu-etti clothing donation campaign] and made clothes distributed to people living in the Refugee Camp in Gaziantep, Turkey in 2017.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Apart from her interest with I&E; '''What she is also author of an independent, apolitical non-profit law review [httpdoing now?://jusgentiumint.org/ Jus Gentium International], writing law and political sciences related articles. She also tutors students on some law classes before midterm and final examinations, has volunteer internships on small '''Trainee lawyer at a law offices to learn practice in her summers and attends several Model United States (MUN) conferences as delegate with KUMUN Societyfirm named BTS+Partners.</span></span></span>
<span styleclass="font-size:larger;s1"><span style="font-family'''What that means:times new roman,times,serif "><span class="s1">'''She is a member of Koc University Volunteers Clubgraduated in May 2019 and started doing her year-Make long obligatory internship to be a Wish branch and visits children with life-threatening illnesses with the aim of learning their most desired wishes and making them true, certified attorney in collaboration with Make a Wish AssociationTurkey.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span class="s1">Her love on cooking, eating Hazal earned her LLB (Bachelor of Laws) degree with International Relations minor and traveling led her to attend Koç University Eating Global Learning and Travel Society Leadership (KUEATGLLP)track from [[Koç University|Koç University]], where Istanbul, Turkey. Being interested in innovation and entrepreneurship made her focus on Intellectual Property Law and Start-Up Law. Her main motivation while deciding what major to study was law school could allow her to be the change of the world she is wanted to see as a representative of justice. This motivation also led her to be an Executive Board Member nowinnovator and coming up with ideas that would solve the inconveniences.</span></span></span>
<span class="s3">Her journey on I&E started while she were </span><span class="s1">a high schooler in her hometown, Izmir. In 2011, she attended Young Innovative Entrepreneurship Project ,funded by Turkish Education Association and Embassy of United States; developed, prototyped and notarised OXUS, a dishwasher shelf with a forklift working platform. In her first year at Koç, she started a track program named GLLP which enriched her mind and introduced her with desing thinking and UIF. She became the program assistant of GLLP in her seni</span><span class="s3">or year.</span>
<span styleclass="font-size:larger;s1"><span style="font-familyShe is one of the first UIF cohort from her country, this is why she and her friend [[Ceren Kocaogullar|C]][http:times new roman//www.universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ceren_Kocaogullar eren Kocaoğulla][[Ceren Kocaogullar|r]] worked too hard to convince the university administration to fund another cohort. They conducted several campus events to increase the culture of cooperation and an awareness of mental wellbeing,times,serifas there is a strong culture of entrepreneurship and innovation at Koç. Their attempts got successful and the second UIFKOÇ fellows are joining the family soon! "</span>
<span class="s3">During 2017-2018 academic year, she</span><span class="s1">served to Koç University Law Club as Vice-President on Academic Affairs. She had organized an international students symposium, and several workshops, seminars and field trips. Hazal also worked as a Co-President of a service learning program named Koç University Global Aid where people tried to address the most common global problems and find sustainable solutions, using design thinking methods. She run two projects for 2.5 years and a clothing donation campaign for Syrian refugee camp in Gaziantep in Turkey, in 2017. </span>
<span class="s1">In addition to Turkish and English, she can speak a broken France. She took German classes in high schools but she still is a beginnercurrently voluntarily assisting one start-up and one social entreprise on basic legal issues. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">
<span class="s1">Hazal is a 1* diver with CMAS certification, loves oil-painting, tries to learn how to sail and how to swing dance. She is also very interested in IoT, Blockchain, AI technologies and basic coding.</span> <span class="s1">She is a native Turkish speaker, Advanced English speaker. She had 5 year long French classes but can communicate in French only if she has a dictionary. </span> <span class="s1">You can connect with ther via [https://www.linkedin.com/in/minehazalsenol/ L][https://www.linkedin.com/in/minehazalsenol/ inkedin], [https://www.facebook.com/MineHazalSenol Facebook] or [https://www.instagram.com/minehazalsenol/ Instagram].</span>[[Category:Koç_University_(2017_Fall_cohort)]][[Category:Student_Contributors]]{{CatTree|Koç_University}}