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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ebe5cb76-da5f-d273-6e7e-e892b120e9a7"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span> | <span id="docs-internal-guid-ebe5cb76-da5f-d273-6e7e-e892b120e9a7"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span> | ||
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| − | <br/> | + | == <span class="mw-headline" id="Spring_2016_Priorities">Fall 2017 Priorities</span> == |
| − | <div></div> | + | <div><div><br/></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebe5cb76-da3a-e074-c190-03ee47790470"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main goals we try to reach are:</span></span><br/></div> |
| + | *<div><span>En</span>hance the collaboration between Dutch and international students, bring them together and create an welcoming and comfortable atmosphere for them.</div> | ||
| + | *<div>Increase the rate of international students in extracurricular activities</div> | ||
| + | *<div>Raise awareness to about the wide variety of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities </div> | ||
| + | <div><br/></div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We would like to propose 3 projects to contribute to these goals:</span></div><div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> | ||
| + | <li><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebe5cb76-da5f-d273-6e7e-e892b120e9a7"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add-on to existing, relatively new, campus-app. It provides an overview of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities to all students</span></span></div></li> | ||
| + | <li><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebe5cb76-da5f-d273-6e7e-e892b120e9a7"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stimulate study associations and student associations to collaborate on organizing activities</span></span></div></li> | ||
| + | <li><div><span style="font-size: 14.66670036315918px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intercultural speeddating events to connect and share cultures</span></div></li> | ||
| + | </ul> | ||
| + | <div><br/></div></div></div></div><div></div> | ||
= Related Links = | = Related Links = | ||
=== University Website === | === University Website === | ||
| + | |||
[https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente] | [https://www.utwente.nl/en/ University of Twente] | ||
Revision as of 21:13, 5 October 2017
Contents
- 1 Project Pitch Video Spring 2016
- 2 Spring 2016 Priorities
- 3 Mid-term and long-term goals
- 4 Subsequent steps to establish a students self-development as the focus of the UIF program
- 5 Project Pitch Video Spring 2017
- 6 Spring 2017 Priorities
- 7 Steps improve collaboration and communication within UT organizations, students, researchers and staff members
- 8 Fall 2017 Priorities
- 9 Related Links
Project Pitch Video Spring 2016
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
Subsequent steps to establish a students self-development as the focus of the UIF program
Project Pitch Video Spring 2017
Spring 2017 Priorities
The collaboration between the university as an organization and the university as a research facility is at the moment not as good as it could be. Many resources such as the knowledge and skills of students are not considered. The university is rather seeking help for the realizations of inside projects from outside companies and is therefore not using the talent that is right in front of them.
The first priority of the spring 2017 fellows is therefore to enhance the collaboration between different UT organizations and bring them into contact with the students.
The main goals we try to reach are:
- Awareness about all the possibilities the University holds for its students, researchers and staff, especially in areas of self-development, where students take control of their skillset development.
- Collaboration between staff, students and research in terms of resources as well as in term of skills and knowledge.
- Create an atmosphere where it feels natural for university to have many on-site projects run by students. A university where facilities and events are run by students can take real pride in their entrepreunerial students.
Steps improve collaboration and communication within UT organizations, students, researchers and staff members
In order to create an atmosphere of greater collaboration between the different members of the University we would like to propose different projects.
- Week of possibilities
- Student pool
- Add paragraph to Newsletter about board decisions and use platform such as Loomio so that students can add their opinions and suggestions.
Week of Possibilities
Our first priority in order to face the problem of collaboration we encountered during our analysis of the campus is to set up a week of possibilities to show all different parties of the university what possibilities in terms of collaboration they have. The idea is to introduce all different organizations of the university and what this organization can provide in terms of resources and knowledge or skills. It is all about increasing the awareness of all members of the university about what different facilities and organizations the university has to offer.
Student Pool
Our second priority will be to set up a pool of students, where students can indicate what kind of skills and education they have. By signing up for that student pool they agree to be approachable for university intern project that otherwise would have been given to companies. The basic idea is to use the talent of students and give them real world problems on which they can work. Students can make valuable work experiences and the university can save money by first asking students to look for a solution. Students will be paid for working on the project. In order to avoid the problem of unreliability of students fixed deadlines will be discussed and the university can decide at every step to outsource the project when they have the feeling that the students are not able to finish the project correctly or on time.
News of UT board
Our final priority would be to focus on the lack of communication and collaboration between the board of the university and the students and staff. We would like to have discussion with the UT news and the board about possibly adding a paragraph on the board’s decisions to the end of the monthly student newsletter. We would then like to set up a page on a platform such as loomio, for us to reiterate what that paragraph states and allows students to provide their opinions and suggestions. This format of a pool could enable the board to obtain a more all-encompassing view of what the student body thinks.
Fall 2017 Priorities
- Enhance the collaboration between Dutch and international students, bring them together and create an welcoming and comfortable atmosphere for them.
- Increase the rate of international students in extracurricular activities
- Raise awareness to about the wide variety of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities
- Add-on to existing, relatively new, campus-app. It provides an overview of available entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities to all students
- Stimulate study associations and student associations to collaborate on organizing activities
- Intercultural speeddating events to connect and share cultures
Related Links
University Website
Wiki pages
University of Twente of Twente Student Priorities
University Innovation Fellows
Fall 2016
Spring 2017
Fall 2017
