The cross-campus initiative called SEEDS (Social Entrepreneurship for Equitable Development and Sustainability) 听has received a campus Entrepreneurship Initiative Seed award.听 In a nutshell, what they propose to accomplish with this funding is to jump-start student innovation to solve complex social and environmental problems.听 The grant will allow them to pilot their model over a period of nearly 6 months鈥�.from January to June, 2016.
Their initiative is designed to address an unmet need at CU: support for supervised undergraduate innovation and collaboration in interdisciplinary, problem-oriented teams.听 They have identified many resources for student change makers, both on campus and in the community, but these resources exist in silos and are often invisible to students.听 Their model will help students navigate the fragmented University system to achieve their goals more efficiently.听
They will:
1) select and support two cross-disciplinary student teams with entrepreneurial, socially innovative projects to prototype stages;听
2) evaluate the collaboration dynamics within the teams and between teams and mentors; and
3) assess the conditions under which this interdisciplinary baby直播app-student collaborative model could be generalized and scaled to a larger student population.
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Below are the applications for the undergraduate student teams and for candidates for student mentor positions (they will hire one undergraduate and two graduate students as mentors). 听
The application for student teams:
The application for student mentors:
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The deadline for submission of applications is December 5.