[IMPACT]

<u>The Catalyst School: what is it all about?</u>

The Catalyst School is a place created to enhance the impact of Catalyst as a whole by improving the contribution of all its different players and roles. We onboard new members and help improve their skills along the way, in any way they decide to engage with Catalyst: as a Proposer, a Community Advisor, a Veteran Community Advisor or without any specific role within the process. In order for Catalyst to flourish and reach its full potential, all these roles need to give their best contribution within the process.

Ins Fund 6, 7 and 8, we focused on 4 types of workshops (Introduction to Catalyst, Proposing in Catalyst, How to be a Community Advisor, How to be a Veteran Community Advisor) and in Fund8 we expanded our work including a new type of workshop for the "Insight Sharing" stage to take full advantage of it and help Catalyst members to have a deeper knowledge about the specific challenges. We hosted 4 of them during Fund 8.

These workshops will be challenge-specific and they will include the participation - as presenters - of domain experts and challenge team members.

They main goal is to encourage the development of domain-specific skills related to the challenges for all the various roles in Catalyst:

• Proposers could better understand the Challenge scope and the key elements required to successfully propose
• CAs and vCAs can learn how to apply the assessments criteria to the specific challenges and share their own domain-specific knowledge to others
• Voters and new community members can improve and share their domain-specific knowledge

In Fund 7 we hosted a pilot of this new type of workshop for the Dapps/Mini-Dapps & Integration challenge in collaboration with Gimbalabs, and in Fund 8 we had 5 other workshops: Gamers On-Chained, Cross-Chain Collaboration, Accelerate Decentralized Identity, Improve and Grow Auditability. All of them can be check in our YouTube Channel. As an example, this was the Gamers On-Chained Insight Sharing Workshop:

<https://www.youtube.com/embed/1bkD99YaKVw>

We had previously submitted this proposal under the 'Community Events' Challenge, which is not available this time. This proposal doesn't really fit any other challenge, so we are submitting it again, but this time in the Misc Challenge.

The main challenge of this proposal is finding hosts in time, since the Fund9 challenges will only be known after Fund8 results are tallied, and the insight sharing phase for Fund9 is only a couple weeks after that. We were able to do this in time during Fund8, but we will plan more in advance for Fund9.

[FEASIBILITY]

<u>Deliverables and roadmap:</u>

Week 1 - Fund 8 Insight Sharing Phase:

• 6 x 1.5 hours Insight Sharing workshop (each one for a specific challenge)
• The challenges will be selected when it will available the list of the challenges for Fund 9 (after Fund 8 Governance Stage)

<u>Budget:</u>

For each workshop:

• 4.5 man/hours for hosting and co-hosting (Domain expert + Catalyst School members)
• 5 hours for the preparation of the workshop and the related material
• 2 hours for workshop management
• 2 hours for contingency

Avg. hourly rate: 50$

Total per workshop: 13.5 hours x 50$ = 675$

Total budget: 6 workshops x 675$ = 4050$

• Felix Weber: enthusiast & community networker, T&M's elected representative for the 1st Catalyst Circle, co-founder of Catalyst Swarm, co-initiator & coordinator of the Eastern Hemisphere Town Hall, initiator of the Catalyst Alliance.

• Filip Blagojević: Experience CA, vCA, proposer, proposal mentor, entrepreneur, industrial software engineer, Plutus Pioneer, Project Catalyst Community Advisor and Veteran Community Advisor

• Kerstin Nobel: Digital education researcher, university lecturer for digital education in Germany and Luxembourg, academic peer-reviewer, Community Advisor (CA).

• Lucio Baglione: Web / mobile developer with 9+ years of experience. CA and vCA, co-creator of the Community Tools (Proposer/CA/vCA/Voter Tools).

• Raz Samsudin: Interdisciplinary trained academic, educator and mentor, sustainability professional with 13+ years of multi sectoral experience, experienced curriculum and course designer, independent researcher and writer, proposal mentor, UN SDG coordinator/education, curriculum advisor - WADA, co-founder - Sustainable ADA, education and sustainability lead - Global Policy House, founder and publishing editor - Bona Fide Info.

• Phil Khoo: Co-founder of AIM Community Tools, experience CA, vCA, proposer, proposal mentor, challenge team member amongst numerous other pursuits.

• Simon Fleck: Catalyst Swarm core member, Cardano enthusiast since 2018, IT background.

• Stephen Whitenstall: Stephen Whitenstall has 30 years' experience in organizing academic, community and business projects. He develops, maintains documentation and provides technical project management support for Catalyst Swarm. As QA-DAO he tracks and documents the Catalyst Circle and maintains 'Ekphrasis' a repository of academic content from across the Cardano community.

• Tevo Saks: I enjoy documenting systems and procedures that will achieve specific goals in an efficient way. Active participant in Catalyst since Fund 1, Catalyst Swarm core member, experienced Proposer and Veteran Community Advisor.

• Victor Corcino: Veteran Community Advisor (vCA), Proposal Mentor, CAs' elected representative for the 1st Catalyst Circle, co-creator of the Community Tools (Proposer/CA/vCA/Voter Tools), Catalyst Swarm member, engineering/science/developer and 'hands-on' teaching background.

  [AUDITABILITY]

The recordings of all workshops are going to be available in our YouTube channel, as well as the slides used in the presentation.

Being able to find hosts and have a large audience at each workshop!

We aim at 20 participants in each workshop at least, and at least 100 views per workshop in our YouTube channel.

This proposal is a direct continuation of a similar proposal form Fund 8: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/384064

Also, it's related to the following funded proposals:

• The Catalyst School: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/367842

• The Catalyst School - Multilanguage: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/368887

• The Catalyst School - Website: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/368885

  SDG Rating

We are inderectly related to many of the SDGs, since we are support multiple projects that will handle many of them. But are especially aligned with SDG 4: 'Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all'.