The Youth Innovation Center is a space for learning and practical work in Damascus. It supports young people, student teams, and people with ideas in developing solutions to challenges facing communities, organizations, and businesses. Our work starts with understanding the problem, its context, and users' needs. We then guide teams through designing solutions and building, testing, and improving prototypes. The center brings together training, mentoring, workspaces, digital fabrication tools, and connections with experts and partners to help teams develop viable projects that create value for the people they serve.
The Youth Innovation Center is a joint project of Molham Volunteering Team and Damascus Governorate.
Molham Volunteering Team
Damascus GovernorateTraining and sessions that connect knowledge with practice, helping young people conduct research, understand users, and design solutions.
Spaces and tools to build prototypes, test assumptions, and improve solutions based on what the experiments reveal.
Guidance from trainers, mentors, and experts, and connections with organizations that help teams understand challenges and develop their projects.
Focusing ideas on real problems and assessing the value of solutions for the people they serve and their potential for practical use.
We begin by identifying the problem, understanding its context, and getting to know the people and organizations that face it. We then help teams generate ideas for solutions, build prototypes, test them with users, and improve them based on feedback and results. We apply this approach across education, health, agriculture, the environment, media, services, and other sectors. Technology is one of the tools available; we choose the tools that fit the problem and the needs of the people the solution is intended to serve.
We support young people, teams, people with ideas, and partner organizations through services that combine solution development, skill building, and experimentation. Access to support depends on the request, the project's stage, and available resources.
Programs that guide young people from identifying a challenge and understanding users to generating ideas, designing solutions, and building and testing prototypes.
Guidance tailored to each team's needs and project stage, through mentoring, follow-up, consulting, workspaces, prototyping tools, and connections with experts.
Hosting activities aligned with the center's mission and coordinating with organizers on spaces, equipment, and delivery requirements.
Working with organizations, businesses, initiatives, trainers, and experts to identify real challenges and design programs and activities that enable young people to develop solutions.
Helping teams design, build, and test physical prototypes, and select tools suited to each prototype, using 3D printing, laser cutting, and electronics.
Practical training in specific skills young people need to develop their projects, including understanding users, design thinking, prototyping, digital fabrication, electronics, project management, teamwork, and presentation skills.
Spaces that support every stage of working on ideas and projects, from research, planning, and team meetings to training, prototype development, and testing.
A shared space for individual and team project work, where teams can plan, exchange ideas, and keep track of tasks.
A space for fabrication and experimentation that helps teams build, test, and improve physical prototypes using digital fabrication and electronics tools.
A room that can be arranged to suit the activity, supporting training, interactive learning, and group work.
A quiet, private space for meetings and discussions, suited to teamwork, mentoring sessions, and coordination with partners.
Requests are reviewed based on space availability and the nature and requirements of the activity. Your booking is confirmed after coordination with the center team.
