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 information 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 from universities that live in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, through the creation and consolidation of the Blockchain Technology Base Incubator. 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 and consolidation of Cardano Blockchain Technology-Based Incubator
The creation and start-up of the incubator will be established with the support of FUNINTEC 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 incubator will have a virtual modality for greater reach and access of the participants in the trainingand tutoring processes with face-to-face events in spaces that will be contracted for this purpose.
Milestone 2- Training of Mentors and Student Entrepreneurs Provide necessary training to mentors and entrepreneurs in two phases;
The first that allows them to improve their skills in business management, quality, productivity and competitiveness. The second phase 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.
Phase 1:
Courses:
Basic knowledge to entrepreneurs Transfer of basic knowledge to entrepreneurs (Total: 152 academic hours):
- Construction of the entrepreneurial profile (16 academic hours) Strategic plan of the entrepreneur (16 academic hours)
- Business Plan The road to success (24 academic hours)
- Transfer of management knowledge to entrepreneurs (16 academic hours)
- Administrative management (24 academic hours)
- Accounting and financial management (24 academic hours)
- Fiscal and parafiscal framework (16 academic hours)
- Marketing (16 academic hours)
Phase 2:
- Cardano blockchain technology Web 3 General Aspects of the Digital Economy and the Blockchain (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)
Total Academic hours : 136
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 20 mentors will be formed and created. Target population
The target population to be included is based on undergraduate and graduate university students from FUNINTEC as project pilots. In this sense, twenty professors and 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 100 undergraduate and postgraduate students, which gives a total of 114 participants in the project who will be replicators for the next mentors of the new generations of participants in the entrepreneurship projects.