Raising awareness of Cardano and Project Catalyst in Ho Chi Minh City

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Mac Tien Hoa

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Entity (Not Incorporated)

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

5

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language

Yes

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

Organize seminars (total of 6 sessions in 3 months) to provide knowledge about Cardano, guide to participate in Project Catalyst to create job opportunities for students nearing graduation.

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

No

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

All seminars will be recorded and uploaded to Youtube channel for the community to follow.

[METADATA] Horizons

Education

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution

Our solution is to propose an awareness campaign for university students to promote the adoption of Cardano blockchain in Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam. Currently, the problem lies in the lack of understanding of blockchain technology, which has always been a major obstacle in hindering Cardano projects in Vietnam.

Our goal is to hold workshops twice a month (3 months = 6 sessions), our target audience is university students, developers and entrepreneurs in the Ho Chi Minh City area. This project will be easy because the team members always maintain relationships with universities, which makes it possible to reach out to targets such as students or developers.

We will demonstrate the project's impact through:

• Feedback data from participants
• Number of workshop attendees and level of interaction during the event
• Number of new Project Catalyst participants (college level)
• Building a community of participants and developers of the Cardano blockchain

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

The success of the project will bring the following value to the Cardano community:

+ Attract new people

+ Contribute to community development

+ Raise awareness about Cardano and the Catalyst Project

+ Create job opportunities

+ Increase wallet adoption and ADA usage

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

Our ability to execute this project with a high level of reliability and accountability is based on several key strengths:

 

Mac Tien Hoa – Project Leader, is a student at NIIE International Training Institute, a financial research education organization, part of Nguyen Tat Thanh University, and has served as a project manager for NGOs many times. In addition, I am also a member of the Cardano community and participated in Project Catalyst from Fund 11 and Fund 12. I have also personally participated in other projects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to raise awareness about Cardano.

Nam Nguyen – Finance Manager & Project Support Advisor, one of the excellent PhD students of Ton Duc Thang University, one of the top 253 universities in the world. At the same time, Nam is an enthusiastic supporter of Cardano blockchain since 2020 and joined Catalyst as a PA in Fund 9. Besides, Nam is one of the people who made great contributions to the Cardano community because he guided many people to join as CR since Fund 10 until now for free. All members who were guided to join Catalyst have full knowledge and bring honest evaluation results. Nam Nguyen contributes to the Catalyst space in particular and Cardano in general without any funding.

In addition, we will actively add staff in the future so that the project can be implemented in the best and most effective way.

+Transparency and reporting: We will always maintain transparency by sharing regular progress updates with the Cardano community, ensuring stakeholders are always informed

[PROJECT MILESTONES] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Milestone 1: (1 month)

+ Milestone outputs

• Designing materials for Cardano and Project Catalyst presentations
• Plan events that take place during the conference
• Book your seminars
• Select event date

+ Acceptance criteria

• Submit designed documents to Catalyst.iohk.io
• Event date

Milestone 2: (3 months)

Milestone 2:

+Milestone outputs

• Contact with university parties
• Determine the number of participants
• Conduct extensive advertising and marketing of the event before it takes place)

+Acceptance criteria

• Minimum number of participants is 50 people for each session (6 sessions ensure at least 200 different participants)
• The number of people participating in Project Catalyst is 10 people (ensuring university level education or higher)

Final Milestone (1 month)

+ Milestone outputs

• Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of project performance, reviewing participant feedback and attitude metrics
• Evaluate the project process, highlighting achievements, challenges and lessons learned during the event

+ Evidence of milestone completion

• Videos of the 6 seminars will be recorded and sent to Catalyst.iohk.io as well as the Youtube channel.
• Final report, video, related documents and project closure.

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Our ability to execute this project with a high level of reliability and accountability is based on several key strengths:

 

Mac Tien Hoa – Project Leader, is a student at NIIE International Training Institute, a financial research education organization, part of Nguyen Tat Thanh University, and has served as a project manager for NGOs many times. In addition, I am also a member of the Cardano community and participated in Project Catalyst from Fund 11 and Fund 12. I have also personally participated in other projects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to raise awareness about Cardano.

Nam Nguyen – Finance Manager & Project Support Advisor, one of the excellent students of Ton Duc Thang University, one of the top 253 universities in the world. At the same time, Nam is an enthusiastic supporter of Cardano blockchain since 2020 and joined Catalyst as a PA in Fund 9. Besides, Nam is one of the people who made great contributions to the Cardano community because he guided many people to join as CR since Fund 10 until now for free. All members who were guided to join Catalyst have full knowledge and bring honest evaluation results. Nam Nguyen contributes to the Catalyst space in particular and Cardano in general without any funding.

In addition, we will actively add staff in the future so that the project can be implemented in the best and most effective way.

+Transparency and reporting: We will always maintain transparency by sharing regular progress updates with the Cardano community, ensuring stakeholders are always informed

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Budget

+ Document preparation

Collect and prepare documents, design presentation slides for 6 seminars in 3 months: 2000 ADA

+ Venue rental and equipment setup

Venue rental (6 sessions): 6000 ADA

Audiovisual Equipment Rental: 500 ADA

Cardano Banner and Big Banner: 300 ADA

Contingency Reserve: 880 ADA

+ Project implementation team

Project Management Coordination: 2000 ADA

Speaker: 1000ADA

+ Marketing and advertising costs

Social Media Advertising: 1000 ADA

+Costs during the event

Incentive rewards for active participants: 500ADA

Refreshments for all participants: 1400 ADA

 

+Final report (1 month)

(including feedback collection, project evaluation) will not cost anything to maintain.

Total budget: 15580 ADA

The conversion rate is calculated as 1ada/0.35$.

[VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

This is an educational project that easily attracts students, especially developers and entrepreneurs to the Cardano blockchain. Besides, the project is also a bridge for highly educated individuals to come into contact with Project Catalyst, thereby contributing to innovation and development in the Cardano ecosystem.

In the short term, the project's value may be very small, but in the long term it will have a huge impact in the following ways:

+Raise awareness of Cardano blockchain technology among students, developers and entrepreneurs in Vietnam

+Promote collaboration between students and Cardano experts

+Attracting new people to Project Catalyst helps accelerate ecosystem growth