The Catalyst School - Multilanguage

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What is the Catalyst School?

The Catalyst School is a place to enhance the impact of Catalyst as a whole by improving the contribution of all its different players and roles.

We help onboarding and help improving the skills of:

• Proposers
• Community Advisors
• Veteran Community Advisors
• General new Catalyst members

Our main proposal in Fund 5, with more details about the scope and goals of the Catalyst School, can be check here: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/The-Catalyst-School/367842-48088

During Fund 6, the Catalyst School has already helped onboarding more then 200 new Catalyst members in our live sessions and platforms (Telegram, Discord, YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIPvRvMoxhmHLUuPPcsMmmg ).

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How to include non-fluent/native English speakers?

Currently, the participation in Project Catalyst is somehow limited to those who can communicate in English. Those who don't speak English have their participation quite limited since almost all content, meetings and events occur in this language. Also, their participation as Proposer, Community Advisor and Veteran Community Advisor is very limited due to the language barrier.

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Proposed solution: 1-to-1 and group support in many different languages

The team working on the Catalyst School is itself multilingual and multicultural. We've got native speakers of:

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Estonian
• German
• French
• Polish
• Croatian
• Serbian
• Bosnian

We are also partnering up with other community members to offer support in even more languages.

This current proposal aims to provide 1-to-1 support and group support for non-fluent/native English speakers who want to participate in Project Catalyst either as a Proposer, Community Advisor, Veteran Community Advisor or just as a general community member who wants to learn and support projects in many different ways.

Our goal is to provide multi-language support for the next 2 Funds (Funds 7 and 8), and a maximum of 50 supports will be provided each Fund, half an hour per support session. Interested community members should answer a form communicating their interest, and they will be allocated to the appropriate Catalyst School team member. Whenever possible, we will suggest group support instead of 1-to-1 support, so more people can be onboarded.

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Roadmap and Milestones

• Fund 7: 50 1-to-1 or group supports, half an hour each.
• Fund 8: 50 1-to-1 or group supports, half an hour each.

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Auditability

Each Fund, bi-weekly reports of all community members supported so far will be shared with the community.

If we don't reach 100 support sessions until the end of Fund 8, we will continue with the support sessions in the following Funds until we reach 100 of them.

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The Team

We believe that collaboration is the key for the success of Catalyst… and it couldn't be different with this project!

We are a group of 11 people of diverse backgrounds, but two common passions: Catalyst and education.

Go on and get to know our team:

• Alejo Escrivá: Product & Growth Marketing consultor, business analytics MBA, Industrial Designer, and Entrepreneur with 8+ years shaping lovable products and communities. Founder @Cardano-Hispano.
• Dominik Tilman: Community Advisor, funded proposer, Catalyst Swarm core member, business background
• 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.
• George Lovegrove: Web / mobile developer, active community member and projectcatalyst.org creator that helps improve Catalyst resources and tooling.
• 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.
• Simon Fleck: Catalyst Swarm core member, Cardano enthusiast since 2018, IT background.
• Stefan Montalbetti: Certified Educator (Canadian B. Ed.), Facilitator (7+ years of experience), Disruptor - Member of the Catalyst Swarm with a keen desire to unlock the potential of individuals and bridge gaps to that potential. Foundations: Empathy, Inclusion, Communication, and Critical & Creative Thinking.
• 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 core member, engineering/science/developer and 'hands-on' teaching background.

Budget breakdown

• Support cost: $60/hour
• Total cost for 100 supports, half an hour each: $3000
• Management, documentation and reporting: $1000

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