After my resignation at AIESEC, I spotted a gap when I changed my focus to Politics and Economics (my department). Students came, passed courses, grew up, and graduated. The department needed something to maintain the network, create events, and nurture connectivity. Student clubs sustained campus life generally, but nothing related to the department directly. So I founded Jakoben Students' Hub, a project aimed at bringing together everything about the department and its students.
I built it in Framer (the Figma of web building). I enjoyed searching for the right tools, and with a team I coordinated, we reached over 30,000 people. Our motto was simple: "By students, for students." Our target was simple too: organize department events with our internationally profiled academics, support student-led events, and build something that would also strengthen students' CVs by teaching them how to build and maintain a hub. Our philosophy was simple as well: be the open source engineers of our department. Some of our events were called discriminatory, since we prioritized our own department over others. Our reasoning: we were a new department, and we needed that spark.
As I write this, the new team calls me "the old coordinator." I left in February 2026, after one year and four months, once I saw what our interns were capable of. My team, our interns, and our supporters achieved what I couldn't have dreamed of alone: over 30,000 people reached. We taught and practiced branding, design, research and development, UX, UI, web building, and SEO. We created the JakoEvent series and took part in the department's open day, which helped raise our department's ranking among prospective students.
I don't know what happens to the project or the team now. I trust the current team they might embody the "open source engineer" spirit better than I ever did. Projects like this aren't built to last. They become a legacy, or just a memory. If you want to check the project please be my guest, the Hub Team is looking for critics always!