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= '''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 20202022''' =

== '''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURSCAREER MENTORING AMONG STUDENTS''' ==

=== Project: BUmentor ==='''Person In Charge:''' Kumsal Belin === Project Details ===BUmentor is a student counseling project between prep and 1st grades and 3rd and 4th grades. This project is based on senior students mentoring new entry students about their experiences such as classes, Erasmus, careers, internships, and clubs. One of the aims here is to adapt new students to the school as much as possible and to create career awareness. So, how will this program work? * Students will be matched based on their interests, personality tests, goals, and departments but the goals and department criteria will be considered first.* Afterward, the mentees and mentors will have a zoom meeting at a time they have determined. If they wish, those who are matched can also meet face to face.* The meetings will be shaped according to the needs and questions of the mentees, but they can also just chat. The content is a little more up to the mentee and mentor.* The google forms surveys will be sent to both the mentor and the mentee to follow up on the meetings. They will also be able to rate how satisfied they are with each other.* At the same time, an event will be organized once a month where all mentees and mentors can come together.* For new students to get to know a lot of people, their mentors will be changed in each academic semester. Those who want to continue with the same mentor will be considered.* The aim here is for students to ask their questions to people who have just gained experience and to make friends.* Mentors and mentees are more likely to be friends because their ages are close to each other. For this reason, we prefer mentors and mentees to become friends so that new students can ask about their career goals and school-related problems without hesitation. ='''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2020'''= =='''STRATEGY #1: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS'''== === Project: Training BUnnovation ===

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== '''STRATEGY #2: IMPROVING SOCIAL INOVATION ECOSYSTEM ''' ==

=== Project: BUmpact ===

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* Poverty Eradication* Food Security / Sustainable Agriculture* Water and Sanitation* Employment, Decent Work and Social Protection* Youth and Education* Health and Population Dynamics* Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth* Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change (e.g.Renewable energy, responsible consumption and production)* Human Rights* Reduced Inequalities (social equality, gender equality and women rights) * Policy and Governance* Sustainable Cities and Transportation== '''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS ''' ==

=='''STRATEGY #3: ORGANISE EVENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILLS '''== === Project: BUact ===

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== '''STRATEGY #4: Connecting Different Disciplines and Roles''' ==

=== Project: coLab ===

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* Learning Sessions - with the aim of learn new things together* Brainstorming Sessions - with the aim of think together* Interaction Sessions - with the aim of build together

# A topic about the community wants to learn is determined.# If necessary a guest is invited, and the Learning Session starts. Insturctors, students, and staff leran together.# A week after Learning Session, a nwe topic related to Learning Session's topic is determined. This new topic should be about a problem.# After the topic is determined, participants think, and debate about the possible solutions.# In the third week, participants make a prototype about the idea which was determined in the Brainstorming Session last week.# After a presentation to the related instutuions the project is started to apply if it is applicable.

= '''STUDENT PRIORITIES COHORT 2019''' =

== '''STRATEGY #1: IMPROVING SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM''' ==

=== Project: Bright Pitching Day ===

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== '''STRATEGY #2: CREATING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELECTED STARTUPS''' == === Project: Bright Demo Day ===

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== '''STRATEGY #3: TRAINING MORE ENTREPRENEURS''' == === Project: Bright Experience ===

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=== BRIGHT EXPERIENCE ===<div><br/></div><div>'''Bright Talks (Hello World)'''</div><div><br/></div><div>First of all, there will be a series of speeches where entrepreneurs can find answers to our questions such as what is entrepreneurship, what is not, what is the place of what we call the entrepreneurship ecosystem, how an entrepreneur's life progresses, what challenges and opportunities await those who want to become entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur and an investor will be invited to these events in order to appeal to the entrepreneurs who already have an enterprise, if possible, the enterprises will be from the enterprises that have invested, and the investor will be the investors of this enterprise.</div><div><br/></div><div>'''Bright Learns (We Learn to Walk)'''</div><div><br/></div><div>Trainings on problem solving methods and tools such as Design Thinking, which are used in the process of producing innovative solutions to problems, will be organized. Additionaly, these trainings include project management, marketing, brand building and so on. Processes will be supported by additional trainings on which we can improve ourselves.</div><div><br/></div><div>'''Bright Works (Walking, Sometimes Running)'''</div><div><br/></div><div>Until now, we have heard and learned many things about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. We will do some work to practice what we have learned. First of all, we will organize case studies with startups in the incubation center. (We can invite external startup.) We will try to find solutions to their problems. In this way, we will not only support the startups of our school and we will be familiar with them, but also will be working on concrete works and practicing and increasing our knowledge on this subject.</div><div><br/></div><div>In the second stage, companies will be asked for projects which are open to innovation. We will be working on these projects as a team work in the form of long-term projects or pop-up workshops. Here we will both have seen real business and will learn a lot from their experience as we will work with companies.</div><div><br/></div><div>'''Bright Wins (We're Dancing or Something Like That)'''</div><div><br/></div><div>As it will work with companies in this process, various opportunities such as global awards, internship opportunities in innovation-oriented units in the companies, and tasks that can be taken in startups can be created according to the scope of the projects. We will be working on that part. We may be open to surprises.</div><div><br/></div><div>Better yet, maybe one of us will start their own startups in the process.</div><div><br/></div><div>== '''STRATEGY #4: SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT DISCOURAGES PEOPLE TO BE ENTERPRENEUR''' ==

=== Project: Design Thinking Workshop ===

=== Project Details ===</div><div>There are many factors preventing the development of initiatives at Boğaziçi University.Unnecessary restraint of many places that enable students to work, high student population, high student quota,the lack of financial means of the school, the lack of environment that allows students to be creative.</div><div>&nbsp;As Bright team, we tried to understand the Campus problems at Boğaziçi University by using the Design Thinking method with the support of Turkcell Arıkovanı and our team of 10 people and we started this way with our the Design the Campus project.&nbsp;</div><div>Our aim was to create a small butterfly effect and raise awareness on the one hand.&nbsp; The students also had the opportunity to realize their ideas.&nbsp; As a result of the studies, ideas about the development of the campus were formed by the students.&nbsp; At the end of the first session, they started to think about the needs of the students and their solutions with insight surveys.&nbsp; Many prototypes have emerged with the support of sustainability and social impact approach to Turkcell Arıkovanı's ideas.&nbsp; Our students' self-confidence was more fulfilled and they began to use this methodology used by world-renowned companies.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Design thinking, which stands out with its increasing popularity, prepares the ground for the emergence of creative ideas as a methodological approach based on human beings, which enables them to be further developed through prototyping workshops.&nbsp; All these efforts and the systematic of innovative thinking create an impact that shakes people's stereotyped thinking patterns.&nbsp; It is not easy to shake and change the thought patterns that have settled over the years and solidified with experience.&nbsp; Design-oriented thinking avoids the possibility of preventing these patterns from finding new ways and creating new solutions.&nbsp; Thinking outside of the patterns for innovative problem solving can be achieved.</div><div><br/></div>

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