The creation of a Hub-Complex, three separate clubs within three universities is a good opportunity for the on-set of future sourcing activities in the North Africa region to expand Cardano’s Community Hubs. The Hub-Complex fosters an ecosystem that offers students diverse opportunities to become innovative leaders in both the professional and academic blockchain spaces as to embody the core values that fuel the blockchain technology: transparency, trust, privacy, efficiency.

The access to opportunities, be it in attending events, seminars, webinars, and incubation programs while having the backup curriculum Cardano experts is a great opportunity.

The means to attain our predefined goal, that is scaling up Cardano’s community hubs, is through installing a Hub-Complex that is interconnected between three local tunisian universities, the Cardano blockchain ecosystem, and businesses and organizations. Accordingly, the events and marketing campaigns will be growing this Hub-Complex as a component that fuels the overarching Cardano Community Hub. This Hub-Complex is the leading figure of this proposal. Indeed, because the end of the sourcing period ends with the beginning of exams, even before a month of time for the students to focus on their studies, the execution of three roadmaps will be unfolding from January to the start of May ( 8 months).

The risks foreseen in this project consist of:

• Not enough memberships in the clubs.
• Covid-19 and social distancing protocols.
• Regulatory framework in cryptosolutions and conversion.

The mitigation measures we will adopt to limit the aforementioned risks are:

• Maximizing reach through marketing campaigns to not only the three universities concerned but to the neighboring 2 to 5 universities in the premises.
• Adapting the calendar and switching to online/hybrid mode: webinars in place of seminars for example.
• Tunisian regulations are shifting now towards rendering cryptocurrencies convertible to the Tunisian local fiat. This mitigation measure's rigor will be determined by how much our teams will be flexible to the news in this department; accordingly the marketing campaigns will include the component of the regulatory framework.

The roadmap below only refers to the mapping of Club Dar Blockchain ESB’s key events relating to 2022, from January to May (end of studies period and beginning of exams):

January 5, 2022: Hub creation

February 7, 2022: Open hiring

February 9, 2022: Executive board announcement

February 10, 2022: Marketing campaign setup ⇒ MKT will be ongoing throughout the roadmap events timings

February 23, 2022: Let’s Talk Blockchain (Seminar)

March 3, 2022: Cryptocurrencies, tokens, NFTs

March 15, 2022: Tokenomic factors & Cryptography (Seminar & Workshop)

March 28, 2022: Blockchain foundations (Seminar) +Cardano case study (Workshop)

April 6, 2022: Synchronization with Decentralize Impact (Seminar) + Blockchain use cases & challenges (Workshop)

April 24, 2022: How to Think BLOCKCHAIN & How to Incube your idea?

May 6, 2022: Funding prospects for YOUR project!

The roadmap below only refers to the breakdown of Club Dar Blockchain ESB’s budget:

3 Marketing campaigns: 900 USD

Place renting for events (all costs are calculated per hour): 1,600 USD

Total: 2,500 USD

Teams of young blockchain-enthusiasts with a vision to build a community that is driven by creating a positive impact through blockchain technology in academic (in the scope of university studies) and professional settings (freelance and job offering opportunities), as well as in the prospect to grow and sustain a community preaching decentralization and progress.

• Club Dar Blockchain ESPRIT School of Business (ESB):

1 marketing campaign (Social Media + University Premises)

4 Workshops

5 Seminars

600 event participants

4K Linkedin subscribers

6K Facebook subscribers

20 projects introduced to incubation

• Club Dar Blockchain Tunis Business School (TBS):

1 marketing campaign (Social Media + University Premises)

5 Workshops

3 Seminars

400 event participants

3K Linkedin subscribers

5K Facebook subscribers

15 projects introduced to incubation

• Club Dar Blockchain INSAT:

1 marketing campaign (Social Media + University Premises)

3 Workshops

3 Seminars

600 event participants

3K Linkedin subscribers

5K Facebook subscribers

20 projects introduced to incubation

Community gathering and growth in North Africa around Cardano Blockchain and its native token Ada, the cause for decentralization are not emphasized enough. With a lack of orientation between youth and ecosystems of idea-maturing, a piece of the puzzle is lacking: how to connect students and young entrepreneurs to introduce them to the portal of Web3 and Cardano-powered innovations, thus significantly boosting their chances of exposure to international foundations and opportunities?

This proposal is not a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst.