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== <span style="font-size: 12px;">Spring 2016 Priorities</span> == === <span class="mw-headline" id="Project_Pitch_Video">Project Pitch Video Spring 2016</span><br/> ===
[https://youtu.be/oJ6BNYDalOo https://youtu.be/oJ6BNYDalOo]
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.
=== Mid-term and long-term goals ===
<div>The University Innovation fellows present in Twente needs to be established. (Mid 2017) While there are many students run organizations none of them work in this context. Therefore, it is very important that the presence of the UIF committee and students are consistent and well established across the various parties across campus.</div><div>The first project associated with this is to hold launch event(s) and brainstorm sessions with various parties, in order to get our name out there.</div><div>Subsequent to this initial goal the UIF-Twente team needs to become a well-trusted institution on campus. Essentially, requiring the development of a UIF-Twente brand. This aspect is very important to assure the future effectiveness of this project. It is very difficult to determine a fixed milestone for this project, however, within one and a half years (early 2018) UIF should be a well-established name.</div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>
=== Subsequent steps to establish a students self-development as the focus of the UIF program<br/> ===<div>In the first brainstorm session, the necessity for support for early’s students self-development was established.</div><div>Establishing a space a center and sanctuary for self-development. </div><div><br/></div><div>One approach towards stimulating self-development is offering students feedback and a safe place within which to receive this feedback. The DesignLab at this university could fulfill this function admirably. The goal is to establish this space connected to an easy and repetitive schedule with the ideas of self-driven learning as well as an ethical and moral understanding of once impact. No later than February 2017 should relate events start taking place in the DesignLab. This should allow students to get in touch with the program by the end of the academic year(July 2017).</div><div><br/></div><div>== <span class="mw-headline" id="Project_Pitch_Video">Project Pitch Video Spring 2017</span><br/> ==<div>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMEI7CvrQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMEI7CvrQU]<br/></div></div>
== <span class="mw-headline" id="Spring_2016_Priorities">Spring 2017 Priorities</span> ==
=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Project_Pitch_Video">Project Pitch Video Spring 2017</span><br/> ===<div>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMEI7CvrQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldMEI7CvrQU]</div><div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-ebe5cb76-da3a-e074-c190-03ee47790470"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></span>
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=== <span class="mw-headline" id="Spring_2016_Priorities">Steps improve collaboration and communication within UT organizations, students, researchers and staff members</span><br/> ===
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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;">In order to create an atmosphere of greater collaboration between the different members of the University we would like to propose different projects.</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; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Week of Possibilities</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 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.</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; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student Pool</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 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.</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; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">News of UT board</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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== <span class="mw-headline" id="Spring_2016_Priorities">Fall 2017 Priorities</span> ==
<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>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-83c4786c-00ca-87b2-cdae-c7d858f0ccb6"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once a year, one study and one culture association are going to be picked randomly. Those are meant to work together towards a workshop/ event/ meetup/ drinks. Thereby, they are free to cooperate with the University’s culture department which can support the event with resources.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-83c4786c-00ca-87b2-cdae-c7d858f0ccb6"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the day of the event, the students have the opportunity to connect and meet up. This will get the associations and their members together and therefore reach out to more students uniting internationals and Dutch students.</span></span>
==== '''<span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc0ad274-00c9-8f8d-754a-e5af97b07605"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add -on to Campus App</span></span></span>''' ====
==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-d1439d3f-00cc-3645-989f-59ad2cb3dcba"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Campus app is a newly released app about the University of Twente. It has many features, such as viewing your timetable, exploring the campus and much more. However, it also has many opportunities. The University of Twente is a very innovative and entrepreneurial university. However, these opportunities are often invisible for many students. This app could make a difference in the visibility of opportunities at the University of Twente.</span></span> ====
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d1439d3f-00cc-3645-989f-59ad2cb3dcba"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of this prototype is to add innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities in the ‘explore’ section of the UT Campus app. At the moment there are only options such as Parking, Food & Drinks, Housing, Research, and Education. We want to add the ‘Innovation’ and ‘Entrepreneurial’ sections under Explore. So that students can see what they are and where they are. Students can also see events that are hosted by Innovative and Entrepreneurial organizations and add those to their interests.</span></span>
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==== '''<span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc0ad274-00c9-8f8d-754a-e5af97b07605"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DesignLab and Studium Generale</span></span></span>''' ====
==== <span id="docs-internal-guid-849253ab-00d0-b6e8-56db-1f8ae8424707"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When looking at the engagement of students and possibilities to improve that, we looked at two major event hosting organizations on campus. DeisngLab is the makerspace at the University of Twente. Aside from that, it also hosts many events. Studium Generale is located almost at the opposite end of the university, and mostly organizes lectures, sometimes in cooperation with other study associations.</span></span> ====
<span id="docs-internal-guid-849253ab-00d0-b6e8-56db-1f8ae8424707"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you could combine these two organizations to organize a free-food event together, you would combine audiences and grab students attention with free food. This would cause students to come to these events, in which you can raise awareness of the DesignLab for example, and thus stimulate engagement.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fc0ad274-00c9-8f8d-754a-e5af97b07605"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide students the possibility to work as an entrepreneur alongside their studies by allowing them to spread their study load over a longer period of time. Currently, this is only possible for students practicing top-level sports or top-level arts. By making this available for entrepreneurs as well we hope to stimulate those students to keep studying while growing their company, which fits well into the slogan of the university “The Entrepreneurial University”.</span></span>