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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente does not lack entrepreneurship and innovation spirit but we lack cross-faculty collaboration. We believe that given the opportunity student from different disciplines will work together on projects and ideas. This could be in the form of a Centralized Information Platform (CIP). Our solution is a University Twente forum where a student can ask questions or post relevant information. Other than this, we can also integrate the collaboration platform into the platform where students can find project members or join other projects. </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;">Bursting the Bubble</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Twente is right between the city of Hengelo and the city center of Enschede, but it is not using the potential of these cities. The university has created a kind of bubble for itself by arranging all the daily necessities on the campus itself, therefore students most of the time stay on campus. We want to burst that bubble by creating an (online and printed) platform where cultural activities and facilities within those cities are shown. This will also help internationals integrate with the Dutch culture but also experience a side to the city currently unknown to most students. . </span>
<div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-024b7c0c-7fff-0021-e337-a184f1715e26"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To ensure that this platform comes alive, information about cultural activities should be collected, relations with local shops, museums and other places should be established, an initial platform should be established with some general information, and do some additional research on what students need to start bursting their own bubble.</span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Societal Programs'''</span></font>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6d39b3f5-7fff-a3d6-33e1-c0bd4168acf1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Right now our university has participated for three years in the UIF program and the fellows before us used this opportunity to have a huge positive impact on our landscape through various projects. Some projects validated little but important changes and others had an enormous outreach. Although fellows put a lot of effort into these different projects, the UIF program is not commonly known under students. We believe that if we represent the voice of students in the conversation of changing our education, students should at least know about us and be able to connect to us so that they feel seriously represented. Moreover, spreading awareness about the power students have to change their own environment, might inspire them to validate their own change.</span></span>
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<br/><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Sustainability Programs'''</span></font>