We recognize that our most important resource is the richness of human diversity at ITU. Therefore, MEM bases its activities on three fundamental principles:

Inclusivity – We aim to collaborate with all ITU internal and external stakeholders whose goals intersect with the priorities outlined in MEM’s mission and vision statements. Resource Efficiency – We view all units within the ITU ecosystem that aim to enrich learning experiences as stakeholders of MEM. Human-Centeredness – We value diversity. We believe in the added value of providing individuals with access to the most suitable channels and people who will enrich their personal learning experiences.

To reflect our principles in a sustainable structure, we gave it some thought… Don’t we all eventually turn most of the ideas we find good into projects? Doesn’t almost everyone have a project? We concluded that MEM can more easily achieve its goals with a project-oriented strategy.

Project-oriented structuring means that MEM will create sharing environments that facilitate the development of projects led by instructors and students in the fields of education and research. It also means that MEM will support its stakeholders in project management to bring ideas that flourish in these environments to life and disseminate them within ITU. MEM aims to create a portfolio of general or thematic projects focused on enriching learning experiences and distribute the distilled, disseminable outcomes of these projects to the ITU ecosystem using the most suitable channels.

MEM plans to create a database by identifying keywords that summarize the topics of interest to its stakeholders and update this database regularly. In this way, MEM aims to bring together stakeholders with overlapping interests, track ideas with the potential to transform into learning-focused projects using feedback tools, and support them. In a sense, we want to map the knowledge genome of ITU and build our activities and projects ‘data-driven’.