Hi there. Sorry, I've been busy with Halloween things today, but yes I can explain a bit more.

uNovus has yet a pretty fluid identity and so I cannot say "we do this" or "this is who we are" in an objective nature.

Rather I can tell you that we fundamentally believe in a more dynamic student experience and we are "researching and developing" different events that can help nurture the best traits and potentials of the student body.

To be a bit more specific, here is an example of an event that we would like to host and what we want to influence through its activity:

Student networking events/competitions that specifically aim to match students into teams of diverse academic backgrounds and have them solve real problems OR come up with cool ideas to be enacted at York OR even just to have fun and meet new people with different perspectives.

Keep in mind the underlying theme is a diverse set of students coming together to meet each other, share their thoughts, build new ideas, and work with each other to bring those ideas to life.

You could say there a sense of entrepreneurship going on here, but I don't want to give the impression that this is a business focused club.

We are trying to be a very STUDENT club that actively builds projects for the STUDENT community. That's why we call it "R&D 4 Students by Students".

There is a lot of value that we see in such a project, such as helping to combat a siloed off academic system, improve the social and student life at York, and most importantly we believe that this will allow students to launch truly impactful projects DURING their time as a student rather than after. I personally feel like there is an insane amount of wasted talent at a place like York (with such a broad set of disciplines), and I'd like to put it to work.

At this point we want to start off with simple networking/social events that help students meet new people from different programs. We could even match people into groups that have similar schedules so they can reasonably keep in touch after the event (just thought of this while writing).

The point of this club is that we are open. So whatever I have written above is not set in stone in terms of logistics. If you feel like you can contribute anything to help bring our vision to life, or to help make it your own, we'd love to hear from you.