Completion of the grandiose republican project - “Zeren-2019” youth educational camp
On July 31, 2019the work of “Zeren-2019” Republican educational camp was completed. Over the course of three seasons, from July 03 to July 31, 600 talented children from Kazakhstan, Iran, Mongolia, China, Uzbekistan, China, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan visited “Zeren-2019” camp.
The camp programme consisted of trainings and seminars, on the basis of which, children were divided into teams, with the help of mentors, and they developed social business projects. Participants worked on projects in four areas: development of civil society, entrepreneurial skills, green economy, creative economy and new media.
Thetotal of 108 teams submitted to the expert jury unique projects for solving urgent environmental, civil and other issues of society.
The total prize fund of “Zeren-2019” was 15,000,000 tenge, andadditional funds were allocated by “business angels”. It is gratifying that, in addition to financial support, “business angels” took teams into incubation. That is, business incubators will continue to provide feasible support to novice start-upers.
We bring to your attention the names of "business angels" who acted as incubators:
- “IN DATA” team was taken into incubation by PolyCard LLP company, director MarhabatKozhan
- Fit Service and ErekshE teams were incubated by Crowdsale Network crowdfunding platform, founder ShaikhymbaevErlanDumanuly
- GreenIT and ZhanAru teams - Arman Yevniev, Managing Partner of YevnyConculting Group, will continue to accompany as a business mentor
- Healthy Life team was taken into incubation by Galamart Integra group of companies, CEO SeitjanSypabekov.
Besides, for the purpose of physical development, the guys were engaged in active sports every day and participated in sporting inter-team competitions at Sport Time, in summer quiet evenings the most active guys took part in Fire Meeting (meeting by the fire) with motivational speakers who gave parting words and shared with them their success stories. At the same time, in their free time, the participants went to the mountains, got acquainted with the beautiful nature of Akmola region, swam in Lake Zerendinsky.
The camp completed its work, however, real friendship between the participants and joint work with talented youths have just begun. Why do you ask? Since they are expected to continue working with experts and mentors on implementation of the selected best business projects over the next year. We expect that project teams will report on the results of their projects before the new set of 2020. Dear readers, we will follow the course of events and inform you whenever possible.
Implementation of this project in the Year of Youth is another significant support from the state to develop youth policy and create effective support tools to address the needs of the young generation of the country.
