<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--><ul span style="font-familycolor:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:14px#ff0000;"><listrong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2020 Cohort</strong></span style> =="font-size:large;"<p><strong>'''#5 - Guiding,1  ndash;encouraging Enabling our students to better plan and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.'''manage their time</strong></spanp><ul> *<li>PROJECT IDEA - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manual <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"KULENDAR:<ul>October 2020</spanli>**A manual containing information on entrepreneurship calendar portal where all events in our school along with class times, deadlines and innovation related coursework and departmentsexams can be seen.</li>*PROJECT - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Board <span style="background-colorli>Problem:#ffff00;"<ul><li>October 2019Student Side:</spanul>**A board <li>There are too many events in our school which makes it very hard to share information about entrepreneurship and innovation activities with an inspirational & motivational quote to catch people’s attentionkeep track.</li>*PROJECT - A periodically updated “How to” and "Where <li>Only common ground for promoting events are through email, which leads to many people getting emails that do not relate to them, thus missing the events that they would like to" website for Koc University - attend<span style="background-color:#ffff00;"/li><li>November 2017Students cannot plan the events they would like to attend ahead of time.</spanli>**An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys<li>Students have a hard time keeping track of their deadlines for different courses.</li></ul>***Listing all the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs </li><li>School Administration and “inside information” about specific goals, skills, needs.***''Example Case''****''StudentClubs Side: I am interested in entrepreneurship but I don't know if I am a good fit. I don't know where to start<ul><li>Many departments do not have the prior data about student’s vacant times to better plan their events. ''''Where should I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?'''''</li><li>Club activities department lose a lot of time sending club activities mails that can be easily automated</li>****''Platform: You can start with this article from Steve Blank. How To Start a Startup Series are a very good source for getting to know what entrepreneurship really means. In Koc, you can take MGMT 411 </ul></li><li>Progress:<ul><li>Connections with IT Department established</li><li>Kick off meeting where use cases and 412MVP will be planned is set. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKS, an incubation center</li><li>Team recruiting efforts have begun. There are also MAVA courses that introduce design thinking project mindset that is very helpful and related to starting a new venture. You can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested in social issues, you should check MAVA 420 </li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 – Facilitating the feedback mechanisms and MGMT 311. Imece and Impact Hub are Istanbulmaking our voice heard in school management </strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA -based social entrepreneurship hubs, you should look at their websites too.'' KUForum:<ul>*PROJECT - A Startup career event - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"li>December 2017<A forum where students can ask their questions in categories and get answers that can be upvoted and post their complaints to the complaints board which will also move up as more people support the issue.</spanli>**Collaborating with career center, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club <li>Problem:<ul><li>Student Side:<ul><li>Lack of questionnaires directed to gather 10+ startup founders with students to introduce succesful entrepreneurial career paths, hold pitch & innovation challenges with them.students or examination of the problem before critical decisions by the school management</li>*PROJECT - TEDx event focused on I&E<li>Lack of efficient representation of student voice in decision making process</li>*PROJECT - Pitch competition<li>Inefficient complaint resolving systems</li>*PROJECT - Innovation challenge<li>Inability to reach answers of previously asked common problems</li>*ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS </ul>**A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from the website database**Quarterly-revised handbook that lists all the information website has</li>***"A Creative’s Guide To Thrive at Koc University"</li>School Administration Side: *<span style="font-size:large;"ul><li>'''#6 - Initiating, sustaining Inability to identify who and developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.'''how many people suffer from issues.</spanli> **There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines <li>Inability to get to know each other and somehow interact.agile feedback</li>**PROJECT #1 - Slack - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"li>November 2017Difficulty of identifying most critical problems</spanli>***Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests<li>Recurring mails from students which are usually sent to unrelated people</li>**PROJECT #2 - Creative Newsletter</ul></li>***Can be integrated to the website<li>Progress:**PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily <ul>***For a more individualized, interest-based communication platform<li>Connections with IT Department and Student Dean established</li>*<span style="font-size:large;"li>Mechanisms of student complaints or questions being resolved is currently being defined.</li><li>'''#7 - Redesigning the ineffective indoor IT Support for hosting and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative socializing and wellbeing.'''customization of digital solutions has been promised</spanli>**<span style="font-size:large;"/ul></li></ul>''''''</spanli></ul></li></ul><p><strong>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 space3 – Helping students to reach an international network</strong></p>***Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.<ul>***Furnitures are terribly old and dull<li>PROJECT IDEA – International Workshops<ul><li>Online International workshops in different areas such as sustainability, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee breakdesign thinking etc.***Sound isolation is terrible.***There are no sockets.***Even it is a large are at coordinated with other UIF Fellows with the heart help of the research centers in our school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.</li><li>Problem:***Interior decoration is not inspiring.<ul>**PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in <li>The question that comes with online education of whether the university education is necessary while you can learn things from online education platforms at the fraction of the dormitory area - cost.<span style="background-color:#ffff00;"/li>Fall 2017</ul></spanli>**PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due <li>In response to this problem, we want to help our schools’ students to retain the moving network opportunity that universities provide by using the advantages of science labs to the new buildingonline era and our connections with UIF. - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"/li>Spring 2017</spanul>*<span style="font-size:large;"/li>'''#8 - Informing, promoting and integrating “social impact” in the campus.'''</spanul> <p><strong>#4 – Realizing our students’**PROJECT - Social Impact Quotient problems and improving their well- being<span style="background-color:#ffff00;"/strong>Ongoing</spanp>***Not only GPA for students<ul>***SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.<li>PROJECT IDEA – Wellbeing week*<span style="font-size:large;"ul><li>'''#9 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for Wellbeing exercises and workshops through the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizationsfinals and midterm weeks that our school is mostly very stressful.'''</spanli>**<span style="font-size:large;"/ul>''''''</spanli><li>PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.IDEA – Wellbeing Club<ul>***Connecting courses, e-learning platforms<li>A wellbeing club that shares information with each other on wellbeing, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.does Yoga or meditation together 😊</li>*<span style="font-size:large;"/ul></li></ul><p><strong>'''''#10 -5  ndash;''Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7/24 co-working, organizing workshops,Informing students about the Innovation  amp;hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.'''Entrepreneurship opportunities in our school</strong></spanp>**<span style="font-size:large;">''''''ul></spanli>PROJECT - Community Space - IDEA – I&E Online Manual<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Fall 2017 & Spring 2018</span>ul>*<span style="font-size:large;"li>'''#11 - Empowering administrative A manual that improves upon the landscape canvas we prepared containing information on entrepreneurship and academic staff with I&E innovation related contentcoursework, workshopsdepartments, programs for creating a more coherent campus visionincubation centers and the paths and counselling they can take.'''</spanli><li>Progress:**''''''</spanul>PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Program for school employees*<span style="font-size:largeli>Established connections with the director of KWORKS, our school’"s incubation center and College of Administrative Sciences Dean.</li>'''#12 - Accessing Student Clubs<li>Currently recruiting the team to design the manual and gather information on the existing opportunities.''' </spanli>**''''''''''''PROJECT IDEA - Club Activity Page:</ul></li>***Provide a platform where each club can have a voice and talk about their goals,old projects and upcoming events.</ul>*<span style="font-size:large;"/li></ul><p>'''#13 - Labs about innovation and impact are not known around the school. ''' </spanp>**''''''''''''PROJECT IDEA - Scavenger Lab Hunt<p> </p>***Arrange a orienteering<p><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2019 Cohort</scavenger hunt. In the beginning of each new school year there during the orientation process.strong></p>*<span style="font-size:large;"p><strong>'''#14 1 - Combining knowledge and skills in practiceAccessing Student Clubs.''' </spanstrong></p><ul>**''''''''''''PROJECT <li>PROJECT IDEA - A program combining different majors and leading by a mentor who can guide about designing an upcoming project. Club Activity Page:*<span style="font-size:large;"ul><li>'''#15 - Place/workshop to meet students who Provide a platform where each club can have common interests a voice and make them to design a project talk about their goals,old projects and to do a prototypeupcoming events.''' </spanli>**''''''''''''PROJECT IDEA </ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 - Design courses or conduct workshops to make students experience Labs about innovation and impact are not known around the information which they got from the lecture. === school. </strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Scavenger Lab Hunt<ul><li>Arrange a orienteering/scavenger hunt. In the beginning of each new school year there during the orientation process.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 - Combining knowledge and skills in practice.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - A program combining different majors and leading by a mentor who can guide about designing an upcoming project. </li></ul><p><strong>#4 - Place/workshop to meet students who have common interests and make them to design a project and to do a prototype.</strong></p><p>PROJECT IDEA - Design courses or conduct workshops to make students experience the information which they got from the lecture.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2017 Cohort</strong></p><p><strong>#1 - Guiding, encouraging and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manual October 2020<ul><li>A manual containing information on entrepreneurship and innovation related coursework and departments.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Board October 2019<ul><li>A board to share information about entrepreneurship and innovation activities with an inspirational & motivational quote to catch people’s attention.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - A periodically updated “How to” and "Where to" website for Koc University - November 2017<ul><li>An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.</li><li>Listing all the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs and “inside information” about specific goals, skills, needs.<ul><li><em>Example Case</em><ul><li><em>Student: I am interested in entrepreneurship, but I do not know if I am a good fit. I do not know where to start. '<strong>Where should I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?</strong></em></li><li><em>Platform: You can start with this article from Steve Blank. How to Start a Startup Series are a very good source for getting to know what entrepreneurship really means? In Koc, you can take MGMT 411 and 412. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKS, an incubation center. There are also MAVA courses that introduce design thinking project mindset that is very helpful and related to starting a new venture. You can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested in social issues, you should check MAVA 420 and MGMT 311. Imece and Impact Hub are Istanbul-based social entrepreneurship hubs, you should look at their websites too.</em></li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - A Startup career event - December 2017<ul><li>Collaborating with career center, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club to gather 10+ startup founders with students to introduce succesful entrepreneurial career paths, hold pitch & innovation challenges with them.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - TEDx event focused on I&E</li><li>PROJECT - Pitch competition</li><li>PROJECT - Innovation challenge</li><li>ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS <ul><li>A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from the website database</li><li>Quarterly revised handbook that lists all the information website has<ul><li>"A Creative’s Guide to Thrive at Koc University"</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 - Initiating, sustaining, and developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.</strong> </p><p>There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.</p><ul><li>PROJECT #1 - Slack - November 2017<ul><li>Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #2 - Creative Newsletter<ul><li>Can be integrated to the website</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily <ul><li>For a more individualized, interest-based communication platform</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 - Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative socializing, and wellbeing.</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>PROJECT #1 - Redesigning Yeni Nero space<ul><li>Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.</li><li>Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.</li><li>Sound isolation is terrible.</li><li>There are no sockets.</li><li>Even it is a large are at the heart of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.</li><li>Interior decoration is not inspiring.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area - Fall 2017</li><li>PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due to the moving of science labs to the new building. - Spring 2017</li></ul><p><strong>#4 - Informing, promoting, and integrating “social impact” in the campus.</strong> </p><ul><li>PROJECT - Social Impact Quotient – 2017<ul><li>Not only GPA for students</li><li>SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.<ul><li>Connecting courses, e-learning platforms, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong><em>#6 - </em></strong><strong>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.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Community Space - Fall 2017 & Spring 2018</li></ul><p><strong>#7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus vision.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Program for school employees</li></ul><p> <br/p> === [[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Student Priorities]][[Category:Koç_University]][[Category:Student_Priorities]]{{CatTree|Koç_University}}