The ‘Summer Entrepreneurship Camp’ organised by Bedaya Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (Bedaya Centre), a joint initiative by Qatar Development Bank and Silatech, witnessed a record turnout from students aged 16 to 24 years old.
Several specialised workshops were conducted during the event aimed at enhancing the knowledge of all participants. The workshops were hosted to offer students with practical insights and guidelines, which are required to start their projects or sustain and evolve existing ones.
They also had the opportunity to experience entrepreneurial skills with local entrepreneurs. The camp also included many recreational and educational activities spanning over two weeks, in addition to providing job shadowing opportunities in diverse sectors for students, which provided them a chance to get acquainted and familiar with the operations and gave them first-hand experience to identify the challenges and opportunities associated with each project.
In addition to increasing awareness among the youth about entrepreneurship, the camp also included visits to local entrepreneurs’ projects and allowed each group of students to work on one of the projects to live the experience of an entrepreneur. The participants also competed by presenting ideas for different projects where the winning project will be presented with the opportunity to display their project at the ‘Made at Home’ exhibition to be held in October 2018.
Bedaya Centre general manager Reem al-Suwaidi said, “We are always keen to instil the spirit of leadership in our youth who are the backbone of our nation’s future.
Through the ‘Summer Entrepreneurship Camp’, we have been able to combine the benefits of the summer vacation and spending great and useful times during which participants were able to learn about a successful project that helped them develop their knowledge, skills and experience.
“Through the educational workshops, students were given the opportunity to learn theoretical concepts and to apply work skills in a realistic way, and to develop a clear understanding of the values, rules, and standards adopted by institutions and companies through the job shadowing, which is considered a real and tangible opportunity to get to know closely all working areas and varieties.
Moreover, we ensured to have on the camp’s schedules some recreational and leisure time to provide the students with fun moments during their participation,” she added.