Tawasul Maydan · the arena you set
You would back more young Emiratis if you could watch them work first.
You cannot tell from a CV, and you cannot hire everyone to find out. Maydan is how you find out, before you commit to anything.
Who this is for
This is for employers and universities. It is not where candidates apply.
If you have a real problem worth solving, or people whose experience is worth passing on, you already have everything Maydan asks for.
Talent meet your brief inside Fursan Academy and Fursan Al Thakaa, not here. That separation is deliberate: you contribute the work, the programmes do the developing, and you see the result without having to run a training scheme.
The names carry it. Fursan are the riders; the maydan is the ground they ride on. You provide the ground, and the programmes bring the riders.
What it costs
Setting a challenge costs you nothing but the time you choose to give.
There is no fee for submitting a brief and none for your practitioners' time. No procurement, no sponsorship attached, and no invoice at the end of it.
Think of it as a contribution to national talent development rather than a purchase. You are giving a problem and some hours; what you get back is a clear view of how people think before any hiring decision arises.
How it works
Your brief becomes the raw material the programmes run on.
We scope it with you, then it runs as a live challenge inside Fursan Academy or as a competition brief in Fursan Al Thakaa. Your practitioners advise, assess, or sit on the Grand Finale panel — as much or as little as you can spare.
What comes back is real work by named people, and you have watched them produce it.
What happens next
Here is what happens after you send us a problem.
- You send us a problem. Something you genuinely want solved. A sentence is enough to start the conversation.
- We scope it together. Sized so a cohort can do it justice, and framed so the output is actually useful to you.
- It runs inside a programme. As an Academy challenge or an Al Thakaa competition brief, with supervision and quality control handled by us.
- Your practitioners take part. Advising, assessing, or on the finale panel. You set the level of involvement.
- You see the work. Not a shortlist. Real output, the reasoning behind it, and how each person handled feedback.
- You decide what happens next. Hire someone, sponsor a cohort, or set another challenge. Nothing obliges you to do any of them.
Being precise about free
Two things are free, and we would rather tell you plainly where that stops.
Free: submitting a brief, and your practitioners' time as advisers, assessors or panellists. There is also no fee for an introduction — if you meet someone through a brief and want to hire them, that conversation costs nothing either.
Paid: sponsored cohorts built around your roles, custom academies, assessment and selection support, manager readiness and onboarding, retention diagnostics and outcome reporting. Every one of those is quoted in full, in dirhams, before anything begins.
Maydan is not a trial that turns into a bill. It is the part of the ecosystem that stays free, because the briefs and the practitioners are what everything else is built from.
Questions you might have
Before you send a brief
- Is it really free, or is this a trial that becomes a bill?
- Really free. Submitting a brief and contributing practitioner time carry no fee, and neither does an introduction to someone whose work impressed you. Sponsored cohorts and employer services are paid, and priced before you commit to them.
- What does it actually cost us, then?
- Time, and you set how much. A conversation to scope the brief, and whatever your practitioners can give — a single review session is a legitimate contribution. Nobody is asked for a standing commitment.
- Why would you give this away?
- Because the briefs and the practitioners are the raw material our programmes need. You get sight of talent; we get real problems to develop people against. Neither side invoices the other.
- What makes a good brief?
- A real problem you would be pleased to have solved. Invented exercises produce invented evidence, and everyone can tell the difference.
- Do we own what comes out of it?
- The terms are agreed in writing before the brief runs, and they are straightforward. Participants keep their portfolio; you keep what the brief produces for you.
- Are we obliged to hire anyone?
- No. A brief that produces good work and no hire is still a good brief, and plenty end that way.
- Can universities set briefs too?
- Yes. A research question, an industry-linked project or a live institutional problem all work.
- What if the work is not useful to us?
- Then you have still watched a group of people think, and it has cost you nothing but the hours you chose to give. We would rather you told us why, so the next brief is better scoped.
- How is this different from running an internship?
- An internship is your supervision, your desk and your payroll. Here the cohort is ours to run; you contribute the problem and see the outcome.
- What is the smallest way to start?
- Send one problem in a sentence. We will tell you honestly whether it makes a good brief.
Where to start
Send us a problem you actually want solved.
A sentence is enough to begin. Nothing is charged, and nothing obliges you.