ITERATE workshop wraps its work in Tashkent

‘ITERATE’ is an eight-day learning experience. Twenty selected participants of the training worked together and learned how to observe a problem, design a solution, test it and create a business strategy.

The programme helped them to apply these new skills in their own projects and to share them in their own communities.

Facilitated by two international innovation experts in Design Strategy, the workshop helped participants learn ‘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 were trained to solve complex problems by learning to analyse them from different perspectives. Most importantly, they learned how to see various challenges from the perspective of those experiencing them.

The ‘ITERATE’ is part 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 young volunteers opportunities to implement small-scale projects in their communities.