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NAMA Foundation: Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

An intensive journey of young entrepreneurs to prototype their social businesses.

TEAM BOOTCAMPS: STRATEGY

NAMA Foundation: Social Entreprenurship Bootcamp

A 8-day innovation bootcamp where

participants made sense of insights they got from their local context, met with several social 

entrepreneurs from Turkey and built their 

first prototypes to be tested with their 

target groups back in Qatar.

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SETTING THE 

STAGE

  • Feeding forward from the past weeks’ experiences and learnings as a team

  • Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship scene in Turkey

GETTING REAL-LIFE

INSPIRATION

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  • Getting to know local social entrepreneurs

  • Hearing entrepreneurs' stories on site

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TELL

YOUR STORY

  • Crafting their project stories to engage with users & stakeholders

  • Preparing a pitch deck

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MAKING SENSE

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PROTOTYPE

AND TEST

  • Defining assumptions and deciding on features of the MVP

  • Low fidelity prototypes with visual designer

  • Preparing test plans and clarifying roadmap for upcoming stages

  • Synthesis of gathered insights

  • Developed solution concept ideas

PARTICIPANTS' JOURNEY

20 Qatari next generation leaders enthusiastic about “giving back to society” through social innovation flew over Turkey for the 8-day innovation bootcamp where they made sense of insights from their local context and built their first prototypes working closely with visual designers. They got inspired by witnessing the local social innovation scene in Turkey and local social entrepreneurs they met.
Participants followed Design Thinking steps customised according to their context and needs. Through the experiential process, teams revisited and refined their solution concept from a Human Centered and Systems Thinking point of view; defined the features of their MVP and created prototypes and test plans. They got empowered with tools for each innovation process (team canvas & feedforward, solution concept & value proposition, prioritization, social lean, roadmap for testing)

OUTPUT

Refined solution concept ideas, prototypes and test plans.

IMPACT

Returned back to Qatar with a clear vision and an action plan.

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PROTOTYPE SAMPLES

Participants collaborated with visual designers to develop the first prototypes of their business ideas.

PROCESS

We executed a multi-stakeholder process with imece and NAMA Foundation where participants had a unique experience enriched with knowledge sharing of experts. Along with design and facilitation of the innovation bootcamp, we undertook stakeholder and teams’ management.

FRAMING

WORKSHOP

process design

bootcamp

stakeholder and team management

reporting & team evaluation

OUR ROLE

Bootcamp Design

Facilitation

Material Design 

Team–Coaching

Process Design 

Project Management & Coordination

Stakeholder and Team Management

COLLABORATORS

imece | Business Development and Network Partner

Itır Erhart | Active Citizenship Instructor

Halit Ünsal | Storytelling Instructor

Cansu Kırcan| Project Coordination

Selen Çatalyürekli, Aslıhan Örün | Audio-Visual Production

Okan Erünsal | Videography

BaÅŸak Ä°ncekara | Urban Game Design & Execution

+6 visual designers

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