<span class="s1">'''What that means: '''She is going to be graduated in May 2019 and start doing her year-long obligatory internship to be a certified attorney in Turkey.</span>
<span class="s1">Hazal is an undergraduate law student with International Relations minor and Global Learning and Leadership (GLLP) track in [[Koç_UniversityKoç University|Koç University]], Istanbul, Turkey. Being interested in innovation and entrepreneurship made her focus on Intellectual Property Law and Start-Up Law. Her main motivation while deciding what major to study was law school could allow her to be the change of the world she wanted to see as a representative of justice. This motivation also led her to be an innovator and coming up with ideas that would solve the inconveniences.</span>
<span class="s3">Her journey on I&E started while she were </span><span class="s1">a high schooler in her hometown, Izmir. In 2011, she attended Young Innovative Entrepreneurship Project ,funded by Turkish Education Association and Embassy of United States; developed, prototyped and notarised OXUS, a dishwasher shelf with a forklift working platform. In her first year at Koç, she started a track program named GLLP which enriched her mind and introduced her with desing thinking and UIF. She became the program assistant of GLLP in her seni</span><span class="s3">or year.</span>
<span class="s1">She is one of the first UIF cohort from her country, this is why she and her friend [[Ceren_KocaogullarCeren Kocaogullar|C]][http://www.universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ceren_Kocaogullar eren Kocaoğulla][[Ceren_KocaogullarCeren Kocaogullar|r]] worked too hard to convince the university administration to fund another cohort. They conducted several campus events to increase the culture of cooperation and an awareness of mental wellbeing, as there is a strong culture of entrepreneurship and innovation at Koç. Their attempts got successful and the second UIFKOÇ fellows are joining the family soon! </span>
<span class="s3">During 2017-2018 academic year, she</span><span class="s1">served to Koç University Law Club as Vice-President on Academic Affairs. She had organized an international students symposium, and several workshops, seminars and field trips. Hazal also worked as a Co-President of a service learning program named Koç University Global Aid where people tried to address the most common global problems and find sustainable solutions, using design thinking methods. She run two projects for 2.5 years and a clothing donation campaign for Syrian refugee camp in Gaziantep in Turkey, in 2017. </span>
<span class="s1">She is a native Turkish speaker, Advanced English speaker. She had 5 year long French classes but can communicate in French if she has a dictionary. </span>
<span class="s1">You can connect with ther via [https://www.linkedin.com/in/minehazalsenol/ L][https://www.linkedin.com/in/minehazalsenol/ inkedin], [https://www.facebook.com/MineHazalSenol Facebook] or [https://www.instagram.com/minehazalsenol/ Instagram].</span><br/>=
= <span style="font-size:medium;">Institution:Koç University, Istanbul</span><br/> =