Combatting poverty via advocacy, entrepreneurship and awareness. Each strategy would have a deep dive and design session. I think everyone should join them all (around 6 hours in total).

Then they group between 12-28 February, and then declare their groups before the Ideathon starts. For every group we assign 2 mentors and then provide poster templates (also up to their creativity) and pitch.

December 18th 2021- January 18th 2022
Recruiting 150 student participants based in Doha to engage in the ideathon. Application form is sent through MUN directors, and through the direct sign up list. Eligibility is to be a youth activist, in a leadership position in your school’s MUN club.

January 18th 2022
Confirmation of in person event

Feb 12th 2022
Youth join the one day training session on February 12th with Training session to be held in person at the PUE theatre, led by a selection of speakers and trainers provided by HBKU. PhD students also attend and interact with students, and listen in to the skills being developed.
Students then decide on broad social issues that they would like to address, and break into groups to discuss possible specific social issues they could focus on. Students use the ideas and training there in order to create a one page policy statement on:

  • The social problem they would like to address
  • A paragraph on how this issue is being addressed in your own community
  • A paragraph on possible solutions to addressing this problem

The Training Day Saturday 12th Feb 2021: 4 consecutive “deep dive” talks and training.

  • 09:00-09:45 SDG 1, 2 and 12: led by (TBD). 30 mins long lecture.
  • 10:00-11:00 60 minute training session on Human centered Design thinking and innovation training training, led by Ayan Said, founder of Voicing Voices.
  • 11:00-12:00 lunch and prayer
  • 12:00-12:45 SDG 4: led by (TBD). 45 mins long lecture.
  • 13:00-14:00 entrepreneurship training led by Nada Bahzad
  • 14:00-14:15 break
  • 14:15- 15:00 SDG 8 and 9 deep dive led by (TBD)
  • 15:15-16:15 SDG 5 and 10 deep dive led by Ayan Said
  • 16:15-16:30 break
  • 16:30-17:15 SDG 16 training led by (TBD)
  • 17:30-18:30 Partnership Building by Leyla Mroueh

Feb 16th-18th 2022
Students attend THIMUN Qatar ONLINE, discuss and formulate solutions to global issues relating to no poverty.

Feb 26th 2022
Students attend the ideathon from 09:00-21:00, at the PUE theatre.

  • 09:00-11:00 Students break into groups based on their selected social problem, and share their projected solutions, using lobbying skills to formulate a general solution.
  • 11:00-12:00 lunch and prayer
  • 12:00-14:00 students brainstorm solutions with the support of HBKU PhD students
  • 14:00-14:30 break
  • 14:30-16:00 students formulate their solutions with the support of HBKU PhD Students
  • 16:00-16:45 Break
  • 16:45-18:00 students finalise their presentations
  • 18:00-19:00 Dinner, and prayer
  • 19:00- 20:30 Presentation to HBKU dignitaries and Silatech program leaders in PUE theater
  • 20:30-21:00 awards presentation

2-3 Consecutive “Deep Dive” talks on, and supported by volunteers (options). These would be open to all the 150 participants, and be as open and engaging as possible, inviting discussion and open discourse in multiple breakout sessions supported by volunteers leading the discussion in these rooms.The objective of these talks will be to engage young minds in awareness of and critical thinking on global issues in TQ’s theme.

  • The power of change in postnormal times: in an era where old ideas are dying and new ones are emerging; why youth are superbly poised to disrupt, unlearn and create new ways of being. Creating education and awareness programs to spread a more empathetic and human way of resolving global issues.
  • Technological innovation for social change: Now that COVID has taught us the power of remote education, how can Youth engage in innovative technological solutions to create and promote their social change projects
  • SDG education- an action based learning model: As more and more educational institutes around the world pledge to incorporate SDG education into their systems, they trigger a new way of action based learning. How can Youth act to incorporate this SDG education into their communities.
  • Centring the Marginalised: Legislation, policy change and social change is a cornerstone of a healthy society. Increasingly, these changes are incorporating stakeholder voices in their formation, allowing space for the communities most affected to share their own stories. As we move forwards it is essential to formulate social change based on the root problems identified by communities in their own voices, in particular those that have been the most negatively affected by the root problems in question. When creating new policy and social change it is therefore essential to identify these groups, and even more challengingly, incorporate their voices and accounts into the changes. We must centre people with disabilities, marginalised ethnic and religious groups.
  • Educating MENA communities on sexual health: family dynamics are changing in the MENA region, with more and more young persons choosing education as an instead of to marriage and families. With the highest levels of political and social instability than there have been in decades, with devastated communities and decreased access to public health, aggravated by COVID, sexual health in the MENA region is approaching crisis zones. Vulnerable groups such as children are now even more vulnerable to sexual exploitation in our communities. What role can youth play in creating education for themselves and their communities on sexual health?

Press

Flyer, social media posts. Created by THIMUN Qatar

Schifa and HBKU logos to be shared with Fatima

Saturday 26th Feb 2021

The IDEATHON

In the next 2 weeks, students will begin to discuss ideas inspired by the Deep Dive talks in their own networks, and come with concept notes prepared of their ideas. During the 24 hour ideathon, students will be invited to lobby with each other to match up their ideas, and form teams. Supported by TQ execs and PhD students, students will then go into breakout rooms to put together their plans!
At the conclusion of the ideathon, teams will present their ideas to the group, and be judged by Maker Majlis, TQ executive team, TQ advisory board teachers, and Silatech program leaders.