Category: UniCEN

Dec 22

Business Opportunities Development

We are glad to have an online meeting with Mrs. Sharon R. Scannell from ODU! On December 22nd in the International Center office we had a presentation by Mrs. Scannell about the business development opportunities. In the beginning of the seminar Director of the IET TSUC – Hoshimzoda Homid Hasan had an opening speech and expressed the aim to continue bilateral cooperation with ODU.

The online meeting was joint by World Economy Department lecturers and students. It was a great chance for students to improve their business ideas and start-ups, especially after having a pitching in Startup-Choickhona project. Mrs. Sharon explained about NABC (Need Approach Benefit Competition) method, customer discovery and business modeling approaches. Canvas business model was very interesting for our students, as this model is now getting famous in Tajikistan. It was a great opportunity for both students and teachers: for students to use canvas model properly and for lecturers to gain effective methods of canvas explanation. In the final part of the meeting our students expressed their desire to listen more about marketing segmentation and shaping the budget of start-ups for pitching.

We are grateful to Mrs. Sharon R. Scannell for agreement about having next online meeting about the themes that our students would like to know more about. Also, our special thanks to Mrs. Sharon for today`s presentation, despite the time zone differences Tajikistan and USA are located, she shared a lot of useful information with us, however, it was a midnight in the US.

 

Sep 28

The delegation of the CEES project continues to work at IET TSUC

Institute of Economy and Trade of TSUC in Khujand is welcoming guests from the USA. Our institute is pleased to inform you that in the framework of UniCEN developed by the American Council for Higher Education, we are having guests from Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). First of all, Mr. Marty Kaszubowski and Mrs. Sharon Scannell were introduced about the Tajik culture, institute, and the process of internationalization being realized by the Head of ICGE – Saidqosim Saidosimovich.

On the second day under the project CEES (Collaboration for Enhanced Entrepreneurship Support), our honorable guests had a meeting with the students and there was a discussion about the main aspects should be known by business owners and start-uppers. It should be noted that students were actively asking questions about the businesses they have or aiming to build during the conversation. We hope that the suggestions and tips given by our American friends will be fruitfully used by our students.

Straight after the conversation with students in the ICGE room was organized a roundtable with the presence of Mr. Marty Kaszubowski and Mrs. Sharon Scannell and the mentors of the World Economy Department.  There was a discourse about the principles and criteria of being an investor, which is gaining momentum in our society. We were pleased to know Mr. Marty to be a practical investor, thus it was very interesting to listen his experiences. During the discussion mostly the investment climate in Tajikistan, perspectives, and the cons of investment were the main theme of the conversation. 

Jun 03

HAPPENING NOW. UniCEN roundtable

Deputy director for Science and Foreign Affairs c.e.c., docent Dalerjon Mirpochoev, and the head of the International Relations Department Saidqosim Mukhtorov participating in #UniCEN roundatable virtually in Dushanbe, hosting in Bishkek and organized by American Councils. Roundable dedicated to the cooperation between Academia, government, business and NGOs, particularly in the achievement of the Central Asian regional SDG agenda.
Saidqosim Mukhtorov suggested creation of the Central Asian Universities Association for the integration of the universities, forging capacities and resources to face regional challenges in the achievement of the SDGs.
Also he has commented on question of the moderator Ms. Elena Son, about embedding SDGs topics to all related courses, rather than making it a separate course. Quoting Saidqosim Mukhtorov “It’s about student’s perception on SDGs, one thing is when just one teacher deliveres one course, and different when all wide scope teachers and experts are delivering SDGs agenda as the part of the course”.
At the end to the presentation of the rector of the Innovative University of Eurasia (Kazakhstan) Ms. Anastasia Aliyassova, who were sharing the experience of partnership with Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, Saidqosim added the experience of the IET TSUC together with Old Dominion University, particularly shared a success story of Virtual International Bootcamp of the students from the USA, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.