International students for Cardano

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

About my school:

Grenoble Ecole de Management is one of the most influential business schools in France, it has a lot of International business students that can easily find an opportunity into blockchain technology. The students also have a lot of relations in the other French Business schools which can get the advertising in the universities easier.

My goal is to reach the Bachelor in International Business students of the school, since they are a lot of international students from all around the world.

The BIB (Bachelor in International Business) is an 80 students promotion which are taught about the basics of business, as accounting, marketing, group projects… 

I think that implementing Catalyst to this class could be awesome to give them an opportunity to express their ideas and to be part of what the future will be about in my opinion. Moreover, this will give them knowledge that they would have never been taught in a Business school.

The plan is to teach the BIB program about Cardano and Catalyst, then to brainstorm about business ideas that could be useful for Cardano and Catalyst, these ideas would then be shared to the engineers of Cardano (Gimbalabs) who will choose who they can do a proposal with.

All the ideas will be supervised before being sent to the engineers and I will help the students to get the best impact possible.

Some community people can also add some feedback :

• Yoram (Community member, part of Cardano4Climate, funded proposer in previous funds)
• Raz (Community member, part of the F8 : Film + Media challenge team, funded proposer in previous funds, Cardano4Climate)
• Cole (Community member, part of the F8 : Film + Media challenge team, funded proposer in previous funds, Cardano4Climate)
• Nick (Part of the community, funded proposals in previous funds)

We will contact the maximum of engineers from Cardano, we will find them with the help of Gimbalabs (We will share the ideas on the Gimbalabs playground where we will get the feedback)(https://www.gimbalabs.com/gimbalgrid).

We will also share the ideas on the Gimbalabs playground where we will get the feedback as well as in a catalyst after townhall slot to discuss with the community about the different ideas.

Why am I interested in Cardano ?

I know Cardano for about a year now, but I have really been active for fund 9 and I am now starting to understand the opportunity that Cardano can give to change the world, my goal is now to educate students, since I am a student myself, and in my opinion blockchain will be fully implemented in our society, I am concerned about the lack of knowledge that students have in this area.

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

The challenge main goal is to permit to students to connect with engineers in order for them to put their projects in place, this is exactly what we aim for, we want to teach Cardano to students and give them the possibility to be innovative and connect them with engineer community. This proposal will allow some students, who will be the main actors in the Blockchain in the future, to integrate this system. 

The success of the proposal fits perfectly the success given by the challenge, which is increasing the exposure of the students ideas, these can expect an easier funding and can be scouted by engineers, this could also be an awesome opportunity for the students to get to know Cardano and Catalyst.

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

There are not a lot of challenges for this proposal :

The students do not give relevant and interesting ideas - teaching them the best way possible about Cardano and to supervise them so they give the best possible ideas.

The students will not be motivated to work with Cardano - By teaching them about Cardano and Catalyst, we will promote is and will make them understand the opportunity they have with Cardano. We will also explain that through catalyst they will be able to get initial founding which is very attractive to students

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

The Fund 9 timing is perfect since we will know the results in September when the school year starts, we can then start during the cooldown period. The ideas will be available for fund 11

Week 1 :

• Create a presentation for the BIB class
• Set up a time and place for the presentation

Week 2 :

• Present Cardano and Catalyst to the students (2 - 3 hours)
• Answer questions
• Start the idea process

Week 3 - 4 :

• Get the students to find ideas according to the challenges
• Supervise their ideas and help them to give their best
• Correct their mistakes
• Create an Excel file with all the ideas
• Send the Excel file with all the ideas to the engineers of Cardano

Week 5 - 8 :

• The engineers will choose the ideas and the people they want to work with, 
• Create connection between students and engineers
• Help the students write proposals since the engineers might not have a lot of time

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

• Creation of the presentation : $40 for 5 hours = $200
• Presenting to the students : $40 for 3 hours = $120
• Supervise the students ideas : 6 hours per week for 6 weeks x $40 = $1440
• Help the students write proposals if needed : estimated 10 hours per week x 4 weeks x $40 = $1600 
• Coordination & organization - estimated 20 hours x 40$
• with the catalyst/Cardano tech community : $400
• promotion to students : $200
• admin : $200

Total budget : $4160

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

• Benjamin Ben Zvi : 

A second year student at the international business student in Grenoble Ecole de Management.

Active member at a leading Aloha association - https://www.instagram.com/deborahaloha

Speaks 4 languages fluently and learning 3 others

Since May 2022, I am doing a full time internship about Cardano & catalyst including proposal writing, CA and supporting funded proposals. I intend to continue it in parallel with my studies

Experienced with Cardano and working with a few funded proposers :

• Shlomo Cohen
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/403636
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/403307

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-ben-zvi-1ab635222/

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

I find that Catalyst is an amazing opportunity for me as a student, to change the world.

As I am presenting multiple proposals in this fund, here is an explanation of the workload management and how will I manage my time for next fund.

I have several proposals in this fund and I am working as an admin for 2 proposals from fund 8, how am I going to manage my time with my team, adding also the studies ?

Even if I am studying, I still have extra time to spend on the proposals that I need to work for, I am really interested about working with Catalyst and I will manage to work after class, or wake up earlier to work for Catalyst. If I am really lacking some time, I have the chance to study in a business school, and many students can help me to get the work done.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

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

Overall, we want to check the action of the project, mostly about the number of people participating and the quality of their work.

• How many students participate in the project
• Number of ideas given
• Number of proposals that come from students and engineers
• Feedback from the students
• How many engineers are participating

A report will be given at the end of the project

Deliverables will include a clear presentation and session with Gimbalabs Playgroung / Cardano townhall, to connect engineers with the students

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

The success will be calculated with the quality of the work provided.

We lack some time to deliver ideas for fund 10 since the school year starts on September 15th and the proposal process finishes at the end of September, we will then start delivering content for fund 11 :

• At least 50 persons for the presentation
• At least 30 ideas given
• At least 10 written proposals
• At least 3 funded proposals for fund

For fund 12, we expect the results to grow after the traction that will be achieved for fund 11, we expect the numbers to grow for fund 12

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

New proposal

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

The goal is to increase the quality of the education, mostly in business schools, I aim that since I am a student myself, and I know by experience that we lack some knowledge in this area. I am also believing that Blockchain is going to be fully implemented in our society in the future so I am concerned about this lack of knowledge.