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= Cohort Fall 2019 =
'''<span style="font-size:medium;">Campus Overview</span>'''
The Technical University of Hamburg is a relatively young and small university. Since it is a technical university most of the departments are engineering related but there are also some management and business related one. The strategiv priorities defined by the administration of the university are:
'''[1] a research focused on innovation'''
'''[2] foster entrepreneurship'''
'''[3] be a family friendly and inclusive university'''
Especially the first two points are interesting regarding our findings during the UIF training. As we interviewed students and ste up our landscape canvas we discovered several problems that are somehow related to the strategic priorities of the universiy. First, there is a lack of communication. This means that there actually a lot of possibilities to support students in their entrepreneurial desires, but students do not know about them because there are communicated inefficiently nad, furthermore, there are not connected to each other nnd therefore not operating as a network. Our second finding is even more severe and fundamental in our opinion: There is no real connection betwenn students and our university, meaning they are not really engaging in all the things the university offers. This, besides a few other reasons, leads to a missing entrepreurial mindset - our university teaches students to be mangagers and engineers, not entrepreneurs and therefor is clearly missing its second strategic priority.<br/><br/>To encouter this set up our own strategiv priorities, which are relevant to all the projects following below:
'''[1] We want to create and foster a community feeling / spirit and try to get students enganged'''
'''[2] We want to foster students motivation to deal with entrepreneurial matters and eventually motivate them to become entrepreurs'''
During our journey we discovered similar problems as the first cohort last year. This shows that the found problems are relavant and are not tackled yet. This also leads to the fact that some of our projects turned out quite similar to last years projects after a few iteration steps. Thas why we also consulted last years fellows for feedback on why specific ideas do not have pursued further to gain additional insights.
Project #1 - TU App (bringing things together)
The first project started as an 3-day entrepreneurial event. The prototype was an illustration where students could choose different ways on how the event should be organised. During the iteration it became clear that one central element, a platform where students can share ideas and form teams, were found best. So the follwing iteration step focused on this platform. During the test of the next prototype it became clear that an application would not suit an one-time event. It has to be more general to create a larger userbase. After some refining and one more iteration the final project was born:<br/><br/>The TU App! This app allows
