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Jacques Fuerst was born in Germany in 1998. Throughout highschool high school he experienced modern day education to be rather daunting and struggled to find inspiration in the knowledge provided to him and the people presenting ithis passion. Hence, he decided to travel for some time and contemplate about on his life goals. Whilst traveling, he financed himself through unskilled manual labour and farming jobs. Through this work and the stories told by the people that he met, he learnt about the value of education and the opportunities provided to him by birth.

He hence returned to Europe to start studying and building his mind. FirstlyAt first, he chose to study mechanical engineering in Germany, as because he was fascinated by the technical innovations possible in robotics and autonomous driving. He quickly realized that the field was not a good fit and decided to switch countries in order to practice his English country and acquire a new language. As he liked the mathematical and the programming part of his previous study, he decided to switch to the field of computer science, even though he had little programming experiencesubject area. He went on to study the matter computer science at the University of Twente. He learned to love the versatility of the skills he acquired during the program and the greater focus of his new university on trans- and multidisciplinary work structures and student-driven education.

Therefore, Jacques decided to participate in the Honours program "Processes of Change" at the university, as he felt that there was too little room for contemplation in his study program. In the Honours program he learned to work in multidisciplinary teams in a not always well-defined work environment and to love creative thinking a lot more. Additionally, adoring the active student community at the UT, he decided to participate in it more actively. When doing so, he wanted to pursue something he could truly care about. The decision to join the Green Hub Twente, a student-driven Green office at the UT that had just been founded, in the role of a Systems Entrepreneurship Officer was thus an intuitive one, as he had always greatly cared about sustainable best practices in his personal life and wanted to embark in this direction even further. During his work at the Green Hub, he learned to interact with stakeholders of many backgrounds, such as established businesses, entrepreneurs, educators and students within the UT and beyond.

Wanting to stay active within the community during his third year of study as well but longing for a change of perspective and new experiences, Jacques decided to join both AIESEC, to support students when developing their professional skills and intercultural understanding, and the University Innovation Fellows, in order to apply the knowledge he gained and self-sufficiently start projects at the university...

Jacques has developed some habits in his personal life that help him perform in his studies and work as well. He practices Calisthenics and Yoga regularly, constantly works on reading more in his free time, and has acquired the Dutch language to a conversational level throughout his stay in the Netherlands. He also recently picked up playing the guitar again, which he abandoned after two years of practice when in Highschool.

Jacques is aware of all these imperfections and hence works on improving them constantly. His goal is to be more inspirational through his own actions and being able to embrace even the most unimaginable of ideas, as we need those to develop as a since these are the fundament of developing societyfurther.