Damascus plans its first Entrepreneurial Summer School program

Organized by the Syrian Youth Empowerment Program (SYEP) team, the 7-day long program aims to help youth aged between 15-18 year olds develop and foster the entrepreneurial skills needed in their firsts step into the startup world.

Salam Al-Nukta, Eyad Al-Khayat and Majd Al-Khawam who make up the SYEP team strongly believe in empowering and helping Syrian youth shape themselves into inspirational future leaders. One key element in achieving that is raising awareness at the parent level; so for the skeptics in your family, there will be space for you to get involved.

To this effect, they’re launching their first edition of the Entrepreneurial Summer School program (ESS), implementing an adapted version of the open source curriculum from Stanford University, namely involving an overview of the ‘Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning’ (YELL) resources.

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Damascus plans its first Entrepreneurial Summer School program