Please describe your proposed solution
The recent measures to reactivate the national economy and particularly the support for entrepreneurship promoted by the Venezuelan national executive that allows a legal framework that consolidates new and existing businesses, as well as the generation of employment and improvement of the climate to make viable company in the country is an important advance. The growing boom in blockchain technologies and accessibility to knowledge requires discipline in its exercise and dissemination, so that its applicability develops in a favorable environment, which values and promotes innovation in terms of services and products oriented to real needs. in people's lives and constantly improving. That is why there is a great opportunity to develop a community and ecosystem in Venezuela with the Cardano platform, since national companies and industries do not know or have very little use and benefits of the services and products generated by the Cardano platform. In this sense, the project that is presented is aimed at empowering undergraduate and graduate students and from universities that live in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, through the creation and consolidation of the Blockchain Technology Base. Cardano that will offer them training, mentoring and financial support to start their digital ventures using the Cardano platform based on the development of their digital economy proposals in their different lines of work. Within this framework, the student entrepreneurs trained and consolidated by the Incubator could support and increase with the use of the aforementioned platform offering its services and products with Cardano's blockchain technology that can improve business processes and thus consolidate and increase more followers and create a national digital economy with disruptive technologies and decentralized finance based on Cardano. Solution proposals The project's main objective is to offer a space for training, mentoring and consolidation for the ventures of undergraduate and postgraduate students from Venezuelan universities, which will be supported by the Blockchain Cardano Technology-Based Incubator for the development and consolidation of the same.
Description of the Solutions are:
Milestone 1- Creation of Cardano Blockchain Technology Academic Programme
The creation of Academic Programme will be established with the support of CIAPUNIAGSFMI to allow its legal operation in Venezuela and internationally. In this way, time and conformation and consolidation processes are saved, as well as the academic certification of the training. The Academic Programme of Cardano Blockchain Technology will have a presencial and virtual modality for greater reach and access of the participants in the training and tutoring processes with face-to-face events in spaces that will be contracted for this purpose.
Milestone 2- Training to Student and Entrepreneurs
This milestone is training in the areas of Cardano blockchain technology that guides them towards a sustained growth of its technology-based ventures and their consolidation. This initial phase will be carried out using the technological platform that will be created and implemented for hybrid and online training as well as in person. It is important to indicate that the translations of the documents and videos that are necessary in the training of Cardano technology in Spanish will be carried out so that the information and knowledge transfer is more effective and reaches the participants.
Diploma Courses:
- General Aspects of the Digital Economy and the Blockchain (16 academic hours)
- Cardano blockchain technology Web 3 (16 academic hours)
- Characteristics and how the Cardano Blockchain works (16 academic hours)
- Overview of Crypto currencies and Wallets (16 academic hours)
- Decentralized applications (DApps) (24 academic hours)
- Types of Cardano crypto assets and their use : NFT's and more (24 academic hours)
- What is a smart contract? (16 academic hours)
- How to participate in Cardano ecosystem (16 academic hours)
- How to create and present a project idea in web 3 in Cardano (24 academic hours)
Total Academic hours : 168
Milestone 3- Mentorship of Entrepreneurial Students
Facilitate the insertion of national mentoring capacities to the processes of competitive improvement of entrepreneurs and ventures in the target population for the formulation of entrepreneurship projects. For this objective, a team of 10 mentors will be formed and created. Target population
The target population to be included is based on undergraduate and graduate university students and entrepreneurs that are in our University as project pilots. In this sense, 10 professors and 10 professionals will be trained as teachers and mentors, in gender equality, in Cardano technology and mentoring of entrepreneurship projects and, additionally, the goal will be the formation of 50 undergraduate and postgraduate students and entrepreneurs , which gives a total of 70 participants in the project who will be replicators for the next mentors of the new generations of participants in the entrepreneurship projects.