The Agency for Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialized Schools (PIIMA) under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan is launching a new project to support graduate students of subordinate educational institutions.

The project was developed jointly with the agency’s experts, Senior Commercial Lead at Shopify (Canada), Anna Rasulova, and Product Manager at WhatsApp based in London, Alisher Saydalikhodjayev.

The project is aimed at developing the skills and knowledge of students of the Agency’s subordinate schools through mentoring and exchange of experience with successful compatriots. It will consist of several components: personal development, admission advice to universities, incubation, and acceleration of student projects, a school exchange program.

As part of the first component, the involved mentors will help young people understand themselves and learn to identify their interests and strengths.  Within the second component, mentors will assist students in creating a personal roadmap for admission to local and foreign universities. Another component of the project will be the incubation and acceleration of projects with the participation of representatives of international organizations. Mentors will help school students in the design and development of student start-up projects in social, academic, and commercial areas.

In the long term, the project also plans to launch an exchange program with such foreign academies as Andover, Milton, Cranbrook Academy, and other prestigious schools abroad. Along the way, the issue of possible financing of education of students of the PIIMA schools in prestigious universities of the world will be discussed with the involvement of funds from patrons.

UzA