Latest revision as of 20:04, 5 June 2020

Project 1: Inspiring design thinking

Students do not really seem to know much about I&E especially in their first two years at university. This is why we decided to work on promoting design thinking.

Strategy #1: Campus Information Book

The above diagram shows how this information book can be helpful to students on campus. Many graduates managed to become successful entrepreneurs or reached very important positions in big companies. Our information book will include these success stories to help students shape their entrepreneurial mindset and follow the example of the alumni who reached success. Another addition to this book is the contact information of these people; thus, students will have the opportunity to contact them to either learn from them or get helpful information.

The second part of this book will include the projects that are being worked on by final year students or the serious hobbyist. This way, potential students will get an idea of what to expect from our campus and current students will get an idea of what is going on around them.

Many students also join and win competitions. These students develop complete projects on a higher level. This will push other students to know about competitions on campus and will motivate them to join and develop their entrepreneurial mindset.

Strategy #2: Organizing Competitions on Campus

Competitions let students learn project management and teamwork, two essential attributes for every entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs love competition; thus, developing the competitive spirit inside the campus is essential as students will work hard on accomplishing the best project they can possibly do in order to try and win. This process will develop the entrepreneurial mindset for students and will teach them to work hard, work smart and organize their projects

Strategy #3: UIF entrepreneurial programs

Our university plans to join the UIF program permanently. Finding potential UIF students is essential for the continuity of our university in this program to pursue the projects we started working on and developing. This way, these students will get the opportunity of learning from our experience with the program and will get an idea of what we are working on.

Organizing UIF events and conferences on campus is also essential in order to share our experience with the program and the design thinking skills we acquired

after completing this program. This will motivate students to join the entrepreneurship program to learn and grow.

Project 2: Weekly Articles

Problem

There is a big gap between on one side investors, infrastructures supporting innovation and entrepreneurship and on the other side students

Solution

A weekly Article will be created by the USJ-UIF club members and will be posted online so that everyone can profit from the article.

Articles evolve around different topics. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Investors, Financial literacy, etc...

Some examples are:

What I look for in entrepreneurs (An interview with a Lebanese investor)
How to create a startup with a vision?
What is Ideation
A Step by step guide to launch a startup
Strategic Planning Process
Hack the ecosystem at Berytech
Things to do before connecting with investors

Project 3: USJ Extreme week

Solution

The aim of this program is to make USJ involved in the community. It consists of forming groups of students from different majors in order to work on a real problem encountered in a certain region in Lebanon. This way students will be initiated to multidisciplinary work, they will invest their potential and will be efficient in their community while using the facilities offered by their university. This may initiate future projects that students may be inspired to do after they graduate. This project will allow USJ to be better in the Spin-out section because our university has a lot of wet labs and offers several facilities but are only used for academic purposes and for research.

Recruitment of students from all campuses
Set a date that suits the majority of the students and is in harmony with the academic schedule
Collaborate with Service de l’Insertion Professionnelle: Give the enrolled students sessions about the skills they need to acquire to be working in this program:

Design thinking: 4 courses
Teamwork: 2 courses

Collaborate with Operation 7e jour: Select one region (a year) and identify one problem
Organize a trip for the students enrolled to go visit the region and study the ground they will be working on
Go back to the university and bring together all the ideas
Ideate
Follow up from the professors
Prototype
Follow up from the professors
The final presentation in front of the professors
Choose the best project and present it to the people concerned about the problem in the region
Collaborate with USJ services (incubators, accelerators, funds, labs, etc) to find a procedure to execute the project
All the students enrolled, not only those who came up with the project, will give feedback to the team working on this project to enhance the chances of optimizing the idea
Invest in the project Or study the project more profoundly Or let it go
Execute the project

Project 4: Awareness/Motivation and inspiration day for all USJ students

Problem

Students are limited to their academic performance and courses

Solution

Awareness/ Motivation and Inspiration Day for all USJ Students which will hold:

Professional Speakers

Example of Topics:

“Success came out of experience and networking, not because of a high GPA”

“What does it take?”

Young Start-ups coming: stands, Training, Recruitment sessions …

Workshops

Example of Topics:

“How to think outside the box in my major?”

“Ideation”

“How to do a Business Plan”

Presentations from USJ and Berytech (or some Investors and Accelerator Programs)

“How can USJ help you to get ready for initiating your start-up” - USJ

“What do we want from students to help them with their start-ups” - Berytech

“What you should have/know to start your new company” – Berytech

Cocktail buffet, drinks, and music included

Project 4: Innovative Coffee Machine

Problem

Students at SJU want some self-development courses in order to succeed in life and become changemakers of tomorrow.

Solution

After checking the window of availability of most students altogether, we found the common time where they all meet is at the lunch break.

From here, we got the idea of Innovative Coffee Machine.

This project isn’t about a coffee machine that instead of coffee serves innovation, but instead of wasting their time students talking about random non-necessary topics, the Coffee Machine will help them start a discussion without them knowing.

Concept

Where is it?

The Innovative Coffee Machine has not only one house but it’s going to have many houses on each campus.

When is it?

The Innovative Coffee Machine will randomly be transported all over the campuses at a pace of 2 times a month for multiple campuses.

What is it?

The Innovative Coffee Machine is a regular coffee machine that serves regular coffee for free. But what is special in this coffee machine is:

Prototype 1: Key Speaker – A person sharing giving a workshop about certain topics
Prototype 2: A whiteboard is written on it a topic that uses great marketing technics to promote itself and let students discuss it and learn from each other’s experiences
Prototype (Idea – On - Paper) 3: The coffee machine talks to the students taking coffee using AI and suggest they talk about projects and topics that might be interesting and will help them develop their personal skills.

Project Video:

This is the link to the youtube video for our project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89d7Z_534tQ

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 == <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #1: Campus Information Book</span> ==
-<div>The above diagram shows how this information book can be helpful to students on campus. Many graduates managed to become successful entrepreneurs or reached very important positions in big companies. Our information book will include these success stories to help students shape their entrepreneurial mindset and follow the example of the alumni who reached success. Another addition to this book is the contact information of these people; thus, students will have the opportunity to contact them to either learn from them or get helpful information.</div><div><br/></div><div>The second part of this book will include the projects that are being worked on by final year students or the serious hobbyist. This way, potential students will get an idea of what to expect from our campus and current students will get an idea of what is going on around them.</div><div><br/></div><div>Many students also join and win competitions. These students develop complete projects on a higher level. This will push other students to know about competitions in campus and will motivate them to join and develop their entrepreneurial mindset.</div><div><br/></div>
+<div>The above diagram shows how this information book can be helpful to students on campus. Many graduates managed to become successful entrepreneurs or reached very important positions in big companies. Our information book will include these success stories to help students shape their entrepreneurial mindset and follow the example of the alumni who reached success. Another addition to this book is the contact information of these people; thus, students will have the opportunity to contact them to either learn from them or get helpful information.</div><div><br/></div><div>The second part of this book will include the projects that are being worked on by final year students or the serious hobbyist. This way, potential students will get an idea of what to expect from our campus and current students will get an idea of what is going on around them.</div><div><br/></div><div>Many students also join and win competitions. These students develop complete projects on a higher level. This will push other students to know about competitions on campus and will motivate them to join and develop their entrepreneurial mindset.</div><div><br/></div>
-== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #2: Organizing Competions on Campus</span> ==
+== <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #2: Organizing Competitions on Campus</span> ==
-<div>Competitions let students learn project management and teamwork, two essential attributes for every entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs love competition; thus, developing the competiton spirit inside the campus is essential as students will work hard on accomplishing the best project they can possibly do in order to try and win. This process will develop the entrepeneurial mindset for students and will teach them to work hard, work smart and organize their projects</div><div><br/></div>
+<div>Competitions let students learn project management and teamwork, two essential attributes for every entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs love competition; thus, developing the competitive spirit inside the campus is essential as students will work hard on accomplishing the best project they can possibly do in order to try and win. This process will develop the entrepreneurial mindset for students and will teach them to work hard, work smart and organize their projects</div><div><br/></div>
 == <span style="color:#808080;">Strategy #3: UIF entrepreneurial programs</span> ==
-<div>Our university plans to join the UIF program permanently. Finding potential UIF students is essential for the continuity of our university in this program to pursue the projects we started working on and developing. This way, these students will get the opportunity of learning from our experience with the program and will get an idea of what we are working on.<br/></div><div>Organizing UIF events and conferences on campus is also essential in order to share our experience with the program and the design thinking skills we&nbsp;</div><div>acquired after completing this program. This will motivate students to join entrepreneursip program to learn and grow.</div><div><br/></div><div>
+<div>Our university plans to join the UIF program permanently. Finding potential UIF students is essential for the continuity of our university in this program to pursue the projects we started working on and developing. This way, these students will get the opportunity of learning from our experience with the program and will get an idea of what we are working on.<br/></div>
-= <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Project 2: Drinkable Water</span> =
+Organizing UIF events and conferences on campus is also essential in order to share our experience with the program and the design thinking skills we acquired
+<div>after completing this program. This will motivate students to join the entrepreneurship program to learn and grow.</div><div><br/></div><div>
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-Our long term project consists of making the water drinkable inside our campus. Water is essential for the well-being of students during their long university days, but many students overlook it as drinkable water is either expensive on campus or not available.
+= Project 2: Weekly Articles =
-Below are the steps we might take to accomplish this project.
+== Problem ==
-=== '''Filtering Tap water'''<br/> ===
+There is a big gap between on one side investors, infrastructures supporting innovation and entrepreneurship and on the other side students
-The inexpensive way is to install filters for taps to make the water drinkable.
+== Solution ==
-=== '''Installing containers'''<br/> ===
+A weekly Article will be created by the USJ-UIF club members and will be posted online so that everyone can profit from the article.
-'''&nbsp;'''Putting containers in different locations inside the campus will help us store and distribute drinkable water to many areas of the campus.
+Articles evolve around different topics. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Investors, Financial literacy, etc...
-=== '''Installing Taps in classrooms&nbsp;'''<br/> ===
+Some examples are:
-In order to bring the water closer to students and push them to drink more, taps have to be installed inside classrooms so students can refill their bottles without walking long distances to the cafeteria or to a container in order to drink.
+#What I look for in entrepreneurs (An interview with a Lebanese investor)
+#How to create a startup with a vision?
+#What is Ideation&nbsp;
+#A Step by step guide to launch a startup
+#Strategic Planning Process
+#Hack the ecosystem at Berytech
+#Things to do before connecting with investors
-=== '''Mobile Application'''<br/> ===
+&nbsp;&nbsp;
-&nbsp;Shows the location of drinkable water taps inside the campus.&nbsp;
+= Project 3: USJ Extreme week =
+== Solution ==
+The aim of this program is to make USJ involved in the community. It consists of forming groups of students from different majors in order to work on a real problem encountered in a certain region in Lebanon. This way students will be initiated to multidisciplinary work, they will invest their potential and will be efficient in their community while using the facilities offered by their university. This may initiate future projects that students may be inspired to do after they graduate. This project will allow USJ to be better in the Spin-out section because our university has a lot of wet labs and offers several facilities but are only used for academic purposes and for research.
-= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Project 3: Initiative- Bringing Students Together</span><br/> =
+#Recruitment of students from all campuses
+#Set a date that suits the majority of the students and is in harmony with the academic schedule
+#Collaborate with Service de l’Insertion Professionnelle: Give the enrolled students sessions about the skills they need to acquire to be working in this program:
+<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;">
+<li>Design thinking: 4 courses</li>
+<li>Teamwork: 2 courses</li>
+</ol>
-== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 1</span></span></span><br/> ==
+#Collaborate with Operation 7e jour: Select one region (a year) and identify one problem
+#Organize a trip for the students enrolled to go visit the region and study the ground they will be working on
+#Go back to the university and bring together all the ideas
+#Ideate
+#Follow up from the professors
+#Prototype
+#Follow up from the professors
+#The final presentation in front of the professors
+#Choose the best project and present it to the people concerned about the problem in the region
+#Collaborate with USJ services (incubators, accelerators, funds, labs, etc) to find a procedure to execute the project
+#All the students enrolled, not only those who came up with the project, will give feedback to the team working on this project to enhance the chances of optimizing the idea
+#Invest in the project Or study the project more profoundly Or let it go
+#Execute the project
-<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development relationship with established business within the Tri-State area and develop company tours filled with students studying in that industry.</span></span>
+= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Project 4: Awareness/Motivation and inspiration day for all USJ students&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> =
-== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 2</span></span></span><br/> ==
+== <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Problem</span></font> ==
-<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring campus culture together along with local businesses in a day filled with showcasing students projects and business partnership with the student-led projects.</span></span>
+Students are limited to their academic performance and courses
-== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1bab8e6-f251-04c2-8c8a-e6a58bd1de95"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tactic 3</span></span></span><br/> ==
+== <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Solution</span> ==
-<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to improve the culture and atmosphere among students and local business, we would partner with local food businesses and food trucks to line up at our campus to provide us authentic treats. This would enhance business near our campus and spice up the current and future events.</span></span>
+'''Awareness/ Motivation and Inspiration Day for all USJ Students which will hold:'''
+'''&nbsp;Professional Speakers'''
+'''Example of Topics:'''
+*“Success came out of experience and networking, not because of a high GPA”
+*“What does it take?”
-= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Project 4&nbsp;: Peer teaching sessions</span> =
+&nbsp;'''Young Start-ups coming:''' stands, Training, Recruitment sessions …
-<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc584ca-db4c-409b-53ac-5fd51e993653"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This idea is all about creating a beautiful platform for the students to enlighten and bring out the innovative thinking ability in them, and at the same time to effectively express their idea. We believe that peer Teaching is the best way to make this happen. We already have peer teaching classes going on in our daily classroom schedule. But the activities are not being executed in the way they are to be done. This might be due to the fact that students have an unnerving feel as they think they were forced to participate in the activities which might seem boring to them. So, changing the way these activities happen inside a classroom that students might be interested in, can help them grab opportunity to work in a team and learn something that would improve their knowledge.</span></span></span></span></span>
+&nbsp;'''Workshops'''
-=== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How PT can be interesting:</span> ===
+'''Example of Topics:'''
-#<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d21afa06-db4d-084e-f040-de45f73bc944"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead of facuty, students from senior classes may be designated to lead the classes</span></span></span></span></span>
+*“How to think outside the box in my major?”
-#<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d21afa06-db4d-084e-f040-de45f73bc944"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum strength of each peer teaching session must be limited to 20.</span></span></span></span></span>
-#<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">At initial stages, group discussion with 4–5 students each group may be&nbsp;experiemented. This might help them to overcome their fear of public speaking at the initial stages.</font>
-#<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">To avoid monotony, different&nbsp;activites&nbsp;many planned from session to session.</span></span>
-=== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Possible issues:</span> ===
+*“Ideation”
-<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
-<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As seniors are assigned as mentors to freshmen, they might not mingle in the team.</span></span></span></span></li>
-<li><font color="#000000" size="3">Availability of senior students who can effectively lead the sessions might be a problem.</font></li>
-<li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Students might not want to participate in a team all of a sudden.</span></span></li>
-</ul>
-==== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hope&nbsp;of solving these issues</span> ====
+*“How to do a Business Plan”
-<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cdc584ca-db65-72eb-b385-d23921a0d4a7"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty members mentor seniors, helping them solve the issues with the freshmen. Seniors to be awarded credits for their commitment to peer teaching sessions. Feedback from the members of a team lead by that senior, may fetch him/her credits. This puts senior students in their path as they help peers to participate in the activities.</span></span></span></span></span>
+'''Presentations from USJ and Berytech (or some Investors and Accelerator Programs)'''
-=== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I&E ecosystem via PT</span></span><br/> ===
+*“How can USJ help you to get ready for initiating your start-up” - USJ
-==== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Student Collaboration</span>&nbsp;</span></span> ====
+*“What do we want from students to help them with their start-ups” - Berytech
-<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">In these sessions, students meet their fellows more personally. They talk to each other, and we believe that this is the initial stage of innovative mindset, such ecosystem can be developed across the campus. This helps students to understand the resources on campus.</span></span></span></span>
+*“What you should have/know to start your new company” – Berytech
-==== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grabbing every opportunity</span></span></span> ====
+*Cocktail buffet, drinks, and music included
-<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Participating in a team activity develops thought process that helps a student to know what interests him/her. Thus, they come to know what all opportunities they have at the moment. With the help of their team lead or the assigned senior, they can connect to the right way to grab an opportunity.</span></span></span></span>
+= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Project 4: Innovative Coffee Machine&nbsp;</span> =
-==== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Connecting to campus resources</span><br/> ====
+== Problem ==
-<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By collaborating with seniors and thereby faculty, students will get to know resources that the college has to offer them. Knowing the availability of resources, students will think of using them for their own growth leading to innovation & entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>
+Students at SJU want some self-development courses in order to succeed in life and become changemakers of tomorrow.
+== Solution ==
+After checking the window of availability of most students altogether, we found the common time where they all meet is at the lunch break.
-= <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Youtube Video Link</span> =
+From here, we got the idea of Innovative Coffee Machine.
-==== [https://youtu.be/JbMgkiWwxvQ Campus Information Website] ====
+This project isn’t about a coffee machine that instead of coffee serves innovation, but instead of wasting their time students talking about random non-necessary topics, the Coffee Machine will help them start a discussion without them knowing.
+== Concept ==
+#Where is it?
+The Innovative Coffee Machine has not only one house but it’s going to have many houses on each campus.
+#When is it?
+The Innovative Coffee Machine will randomly be transported all over the campuses at a pace of 2 times a month for multiple campuses.
+#What is it?
+The Innovative Coffee Machine is a regular coffee machine that serves regular coffee for free. But what is special in this coffee machine is:
+*Prototype 1: Key Speaker – A person sharing giving a workshop about certain topics
+*Prototype 2: A whiteboard is written on it a topic that uses great marketing technics to promote itself and let students discuss it and learn from each other’s experiences
+*Prototype (Idea – On - Paper) 3: The coffee machine talks to the students taking coffee using AI and suggest they talk about projects and topics that might be interesting and will help them develop their personal skills.
+= Project Video: =
+This is the link to the youtube video for our project. [https://youtu.be/3geMrA1Hr3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89d7Z_534tQ]
+= <font color="#000000">Related Links:</font> =
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph_University_of_Beirut College Wiki]
+'''Fall 2019 Cohort'''
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Charbel_abou_younes Charbel Abou Younes]
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Elio_Gerges Elio Gerges]
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Josephine_El_Balaa Josephine Balaa]
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Tatiana_Wakim Tatiana Wakim]
+'''Fall 2018 Cohort'''
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Michelbechara Michel Bechara]
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Bachour Peter Bachour]
+[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CharbelHowayek Charbel Howayek]
 </div>
+[[Category:Student Priorities]]
-<br>[[Category:Student Priorities]]
+[[Category:Student Priorities]]
+[[Category:Saint_Joseph_University_of_Beirut]]
+[[Category:Student_Priorities]]
+{{CatTree|Saint_Joseph_University_of_Beirut}}

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Contents

Project 1: Inspiring design thinking

Strategy #1: Campus Information Book

Strategy #2: Organizing Competitions on Campus

Strategy #3: UIF entrepreneurial programs

Project 2: Weekly Articles

Problem

Solution

Project 3: USJ Extreme week

Solution

Project 4: Awareness/Motivation and inspiration day for all USJ students

Problem

Solution

Project 4: Innovative Coffee Machine

Problem

Solution

Concept

Project Video:

Related Links: