Please describe your proposed solution.

The creation of a Students 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.

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

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 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 proposal will go hand in hand with our "Decentralize Impact" proposal. ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/422598 )

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The risks foreseen in this project consist of:

• Not enough memberships in the clubs.
• Covid19 breakouts
• Regulatory framework in crypto solutions 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.

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The timeline below only refers to the Club Dar Blockchain ESB’s plan for the school year 2022 till final exams season:

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!

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

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

3 Marketing campaigns: 500 USD

Place/Logistics renting for events: 1,000 USD

Experts/Trainers Pay: 1,000 USD

<u>Total: 2,500 USD</u>

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Teams of young students that are 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.

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes. This proposal isn't a one-off event. The Hub will welcome new students and blockchain/Web3 enthusiasts every school year.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

• 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

What does success for this project look like?

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?

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is not a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst but we've applied to Fund8.

IdeaScale link for the proposal in Fund8 :

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/401310