Workshop on social innovations kicks off in Tashkent
16/05/2013 13:19
Workshop on social innovations kicks off in Tashkent
16/05/2013 13:19
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- A workshop on social innovations “ITERATE” started its work in Tashkent on 15 May. The event is aimed at training young participants in methods of social innovation for community development projects.
ITERATE is an eight-day learning experience. Twenty selected participants of the training will be working together and learn how to observe a problem, design a solution, test it and create a business strategy. ITERATE will help them to apply these new skills in their own projects and to share them in their own communities.
The ‘ITERATE’ workshop will be facilitated by two international innovation experts. Their vast experience in and deep knowledge of Design Strategy, will enable the participants to learn about ‘design thinking’ as a cutting-edge method for social innovation for the very first time in Uzbekistan.
During the eight days of the workshop, participants of ITERATE will be trained to solve complex problems by learning to analyse them from different perspectives. Most importantly, participants will learn how to see various challenges from the perspective of those experiencing them. Participants will leave ‘ITERATE’ knowing how to recognize and tackle community development challenges in an innovative way that always puts the wellbeing of real people first.
The ‘ITERATE’ workshop is part of a broader set of initiatives carried out by the ‘Social Innovation and Volunteerism in Uzbekistan’ project. The overarching aim is to create widespread awareness about the concept of social innovation as well as to help launch concrete projects. A Social Innovation Lab, to be implemented soon, will serve as an information hub and physical space to support social innovation projects; while a mini-grants scheme with awards worth up to 3 million soums, provided jointly by the project and Kelajak Ovozi Center for Young Initiatives, will give groups of young volunteers the opportunity to implement small-scale projects in their communities.
The workshop is made possible with the partnership of UNDP-UNV ‘Social Innovation and Volunteerism in Uzbekistan’ project and Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT).
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