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