Skills Gap High Level Policy Forum

This roundtable will highlight the skills gaps that currently limit the growth and competitiveness of startups in Syria, emphasizing the need to strengthen technical expertise, entrepreneurial capabilities, and workforce readiness to support a resilient innovation ecosystem. The discussion will bring together education startups, policymakers, educators, and nonprofits to examine priority talent gaps, explore ways the education system and nonprofit organizations can enhance training and capacity-building programs, identify opportunities for regional partnerships to transfer knowledge, and propose actionable strategies to equip entrepreneurs with the skills required to build and scale sustainable ventures.