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= '''Fall 2019 Priorities'''<br/> =
<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centralized Information Platform</span></span>
<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">Bursting the Bubble</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>
<div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-024b7c0c-7fff-0021-e337-a184f1715e26"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To ensure that this platform comes alive, information about cultural activities should be collected, relations with local shops, museums and other places should be established, an initial platform should be established with some general information, and do some additional research on what students need to start bursting their own bubble.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br/></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br/></div><div>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Societal Programs'''</span></font>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"</span></font><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a need for more societal-focused programs at the University of Twente. There are two programs that we thought would help the University to evolve its education and awareness. The first program focuses on societal entrepreneurship and the second program focuses on solving real-life issues in countries using technological solutions. </span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">UIF World</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6d39b3f5-7fff-a3d6-33e1-c0bd4168acf1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Right now our university has participated for three years in the UIF program and the fellows before us used this opportunity to have a huge positive impact on our landscape through various projects. Some projects validated little but important changes and others had an enormous outreach. Although fellows put a lot of effort into these different projects, the UIF program is not commonly known under students. We believe that if we represent the voice of students in the conversation of changing our education, students should at least know about us and be able to connect to us so that they feel seriously represented. Moreover, spreading awareness about the power students have to change their own environment, might inspire them to validate their own change.</span></span>
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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Sustainabiliy Program'''</span></font>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"</span></font><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a0ef99-7fff-3b93-c8d5-201986133010"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente has only recently begun setting up a ‘Green Office’ - a centralized platform to monitor, support and enable sustainability projects. While the collaborative spirit and founding of sustainability as a theme is set up, the Green Office does not provide any specific context for sustainability initiatives.</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5a0ef99-7fff-3b93-c8d5-201986133010"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will further extend sustainability efforts through collaborative education and a strong regional network, which in the long term should lead to more entrepreneurial opportunities in relation to the topic of sustainability. The focus here is on students who, within their education, want to act on their ideas with support from experts and guidance from industry players.</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Potential ways of doing so would include, but is not limited, to online courses and sustainability-themed honors tracks. What if students could opt to participate in these sustainability-themed tracks and funnel their ambitions into real cases? What if student groups could be supported by experts and mentors, to increase the potential for entrepreneurial spin-offs? Students should be armed with the right tools and networks to apply their creativity to sustainability-related projects.</span>
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