Priorities:Koç University Student Priorities

• #1 - Guiding, encouraging and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.
  • PROJECT: An updated “How to” website
    • An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.
    • Where can I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?
    • Listing all the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs and “inside information” about specific goals, skills, needs.
  • ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS:
    • A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from the website database
    • Quarterly-revised handbook that lists all the information website has
      • "A Creative’s Guide To Thrive at Koc University"
  • #2 - Initiating, sustaining and developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.
    • There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.
    • PROJECT #1
      • Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests
    • PROJECT #2
      • Creative Newsletter
        • Can be integrated to the website
      • Redesigning KU Daily for a more individualized, interest-based communication platform
  • #3 - Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative socializing and wellbeing. 
    • For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student life.
    • PROJECT #1
      • Redesigning Yeni Nero space
        • Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.
        • Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.
        • Sound isolation is terrible.
        • There are no sockets.
        • Even it is a large are at the heart of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.
        • Interior decoration is not inspiring.
      • PROJECT #2
        • Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area
      • PROJECT #3
        • Designing empty spaces that will be created due to the moving of science labs to the new building.
  • #4 - Informing, promoting and integrating “social impact” in the campus.
    • PROJECT
      • Social Impact Quotient
        • Not only GPA for students
        • SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.
  • #5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.
    • PROJECT
      • Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.
        • Connecting courses, 
  • #6 - 'Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration,     7/24 co-working, organizing workshops, hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.
    • PROJECT
      • Community Space
  • #7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus vision.
    • PROJECT IDEA
      • Global Learning and Leadership Certificate Program for school employees