THE YOUTH COMPANY
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OUR PROGRAMMES

SKILLS. OPPORTUNITY.
ROOM TO LEAD.

Learning, enterprise, leadership, culture and community—designed to connect around the whole young person.

The detail behind the programmes.

Choose where you want to grow: practical skills, entrepreneurship, leadership or creative expression. Explore the pathways we are developing and contact us for upcoming editions.

3ilm Labs · علم

183 topics. 14 themes.

A learning pathway covering communication, negotiation, digital and AI tools, project management, creative practice, enterprise and finance. Mindset and skills lead into focused bootcamps.

Youth Startup

Three ways into entrepreneurship.

Pitch Plz tests ideas with judges and an audience. A seven-day bootcamp develops and validates an MVP with founders. The career-fair direction connects young talent with startups.

Lead Arabia

Projects, a summit and a fellowship.

The strategy connects regional exposure and real challenges with youth-led projects. Its proposed emerging-leaders fellowship gives young people space to build, solve and lead.

Youth Fest · مهرجان الشباب

Culture made by youth.

The festival direction brings together stories, performance, design and creative participation. The deck includes a regional design competition and opportunities to showcase emerging work.

That Thing

We learn. We break stigma. We change.

The programme design combines masterclasses, an anti-stigma campaign and a youth-led conference, making room for informed conversation and advocacy around mental health.

Youth voice

Youth Talks + Spill the Shay

A public storytelling platform and a podcast direction bring forward lived experience, setbacks, turning points and the realities of building a career, a project or a movement.

HOW WE WORK

Three principles.
In everything we build.

We grow by lifting each other. Youth, partners and sponsors co-create solutions, sharing knowledge, resources and opportunity.

01

YOUTH-LED

Youth lead, decide and create. Their voice shapes the work from the first idea to delivery.

02

HOMEGROWN

Every programme starts with our people, our places and the things that matter to them.

03

TRACK & SCALE

We measure what we do, learn from the results and grow the ideas that make a difference.

UTH: a journey that grows with you.

A digital direction in development. These names describe the product vision in the presentation; they are not a launch announcement or a list of live features.

01 / SAFAA

Personal guidance

Guidance informed by a young person’s goals and strengths.

02 / Rihlat

A personal career journey

Paths connecting skills development, experience and progress.

03 / iLEM · 3ilm

Learning pathways

Courses, challenges and skill development.

04 / UTH EXP

Experience and opportunity

Volunteering, shadowing, internships and employment.

05 / WASTA

A profile of progress

A proposed profile connecting skills, projects and achievements.

06 / MEMBERSHIP

A connected community

Learning, mentors, community and opportunities in one journey.

03 / THE FOUNDATIONSSelected programmes from our history

Built through experience.

The work we do today grows from programmes we have built since 2010. Each format opens a different route into participation, confidence and experience.

Sport as a shared experience — Run The World · 2013
Sport as a shared experienceRun The World · 2013
Youth sport in action — Run The World · 2013
Youth sport in actionRun The World · 2013
Culture · Sport · Youth ownershipRun The World+

A festival platform combining performance, sport, talent discovery, volunteer roles and public participation. Its 2011 origins connect directly to youth training.

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Leadership · Enterprise · ConfidenceYouth Change Everything+

A series of leadership conferences and workshops connecting young people with skills, peer exchange and practical challenges. Delivered editions are documented in the 2012 and 2015 reports.

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Volunteering · Community care7asanat Olympics+

Ramadan volunteering through community visits and giving. Contemporary reporting describes around 500 volunteers involved in the preceding year’s activities.

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Careers · Experience · Employer accessQatar Internship Fair / YOU-Intern+

Career-oriented initiatives connecting students and young people to employers, mentorship and opportunities to understand the working world.

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Culture · Regional exchange · ExpressionArab Hip Hop Festival+

A 2014 platform for artists, performances and workshops, bringing regional cultural voices together in Doha.

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Environment · Dialogue · Youth participationTalk Dirty+

The 2014 Environment and Sustainability Forum connected young people, experts and organisations around environmental challenges and action.

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Community · Learning · Shared spaceYouth Hub Qatar+

A physical platform for development and connection, with archive records spanning workshops, startup feedback, arts, music and sport.

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Music made by a generation — Run The World · 2013
Music made by a generationRun The World · 2013
Youth culture finds its voice — Arab Hip Hop Festival · 2014
Youth culture finds its voiceArab Hip Hop Festival · 2014

A wider history.
More ways youth took part.

From literacy to parkour, published coverage reveals the range of experiences that brought young people together.

2012 / School literacy

A spelling bee builds confidence in English

Commercialbank and TYC hosted a competition for schoolchildren aged 11–14, connecting literacy with a public challenge.

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2013 / Art & community giving

Al Amal brings fashion and community giving together

TYC organised a charity fashion event initiated by designer Fatma Ghanem, with art and an auction supporting cancer care.

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2013 / Speaking with confidence

YOU-Training focuses on public speaking

A workshop announcement highlights preparation, improvisation and confidence for young speakers at Al Riwaq.

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2013 / Sports filmmaking

Qatar Sports Film Festival concludes

Coverage records the completed festival, linking youth filmmaking with sport through TYC and Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum.

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2014 / Young women’s leadership

A leadership edition for young Arab women

The announced Youth Change Everything edition for girls aged 14–18 combined inspiration, leadership training and collaborative action.

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2015 / Photography & volunteer learning

A summer of photography, service and volunteer training

The report links My Qatar, Hasanat Olympics and Qatar Summer Concerts, and names the organisations supporting these activities.

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2015 / Regional sport

Wild Khaleeji brings regional parkour to Doha

TYC’s competition followed a MENA submission campaign and GCC road trip. Eighteen finalists competed at Aspire, with Vodafone and Aspire supporting the event.

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