Please describe your proposed solution.

Many environmentally conscious countries are already moving toward a green economy, and the future will require companies of any size to change the way they work, whether they are startups or established global companies. Despite this, LATAM area is still very much behind in developing a green economy, but we all have a responsibility to promote sustainable development, especially the next generation of new businesses.

We hope that by organizing a Cardano CLIMATHON can raise awareness of environmental protection in LATAM area, strengthen local eco-systems, inspire further climate action and take diverse green and sustainable ideas to the next level and linking Cardano´s green concept with Climathon, help to create a zero carbon world and brainstorm ideas for the world's climate challenge, as well as to empower entrepreneurs to be the driving force behind the world's ambitious climate-focused goals and to fight the negative impacts of pollution and climate change that affect billions of people today.

With our past experience in organizing large events and as ADA SOLAR is supporter of renewable energy, we are providing the impetus for this event as organizers of the Climathon. Our idea is to attract Cardano community members, policy makers, entrepreneurs, pro-green investors and activists, academics, students, developers and others to this co-creative, idea-generating and civically engaged environmental event using gamification, social collaboration and challenges to make everyone a part of it to achieve the awakening we want and to create a place where we want to be.

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

This project fits perfectly with this challenge because it covers a wide range of issues, and this project is not only related to environmental protection, total CO2, generating environmental awareness and changing harmful environmental habits, but it also promotes the integration of the CARDANO community and combines environmental protection issues with people from different areas to develop new ideas or projects together.

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

1.Teams not solving challenges on time, if looking at progress on day 1 to decide whether to extend by 2 hours to allow teams to complete their taks.

2.Not enough people are gathered to form 5 teams, to avoid this situation, the number of teams will be confirmed after registration to avoid too few participants, if the number of applicants is too low then we will step up the search for people willing to participate to achieve the target.

3.If the number of people or event gathering is limited due to COVID, the event will be changed to an online event if this is the case.

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

<u>Detail plan </u>

The CARDANO Climathon is a two-day interactive event that encourages Cardano community members, entrepreneurs, pro-green investors, academics, students and developers to come up with new ideas for green and sustainable business practices and innovative solutions for green-focused sustainable business practices to help combat climate change. In turn, the teams are expected to develop innovative, green-focused business solutions in combination with the CARDANO Technology Challenge.

The CLIMATHON´s benefits and goals are:

· Promote cross-disciplinary and a true cross-border collaboration

· spread the green concept of CARDANO

· Strengthen the cooperation of the CARDANO community

· Contribute to environmental protection creating green enterprises and products

· Promote environmental green projects and future development direction

· Better understand the current climate impacts and reduce carbon use and offsets

· A clear path to a more sustainable and carbon neutral future

· Understand the impact of climate change on operations and business development

· Optimize ratings in terms of ESG criteria

· Welcoming to newcomers to join the community.

· Provide an opportunity for participants to learn something new and work together in groups.

ELIGIBILITY

· Participants must be over 18 years of age.

· Participants must enter as teams of 3-6 members.

· Projects must be created during the CLIMATHON

The CLIMATHON will focuses on 3 challenges (Could be modified):

· Challenge 1: Race to NetZero

· Challenge 2: Making the Green Economy with renewable energy

· Challenge 3: Cardano Community engagement

The assessment criteria of the winner teams will be based on:

· Impact: To what extent does the solution have an impact on addressing the above challenges?

· Feasibility: Is the solution technically, legally and technologically feasible?

· Innovativeness: Is the solution innovative and creative, and does it use the latest technology?

PRIZES : The winning teams can opt to receive in USD or in SOLAR tokens and becoming part of the ADA Solar Farm Generation. ADA SOLAR is an environmentally conscious project, born and funded through Cardano Catalyst Fund 7. Through ADA SOLAR platform, any individual will be able to invest in solar PV power by acquiring a certain amount of power (1 Watt = 1 Token SOLAR). This first solar farm using the Cardano blockchain will be built in San Juan and will be developed in an initial phase of 5 MW. Investors will receive rewards during 20 years once the solar farm starts to operate, while enjoying the following benefits:

· Transparency in investment, through Cardano Blockchain technology, linked to clean energy generation.

· Being part of the energy generation business.

· Taking action against climate change.

· Being part of the global transition to clean energy.

· Simple and convenient way to invest in fiat or ADA, backed by tangible assets that generate energy.

· Offset your carbon (CO2) footprint.

The prizes are:

1. First prize : 3000 SOLAR TOKENS ( becoming part of the ADA Solar Farm Generation with3000 WATTS) or 3000 USD
2. Second prize : 2000 SOLAR TOKENS ( becoming part of the ADA Solar Farm Generation with 2000 WATTS) or 2000 USD
3. Third prize: 1000 SOLAR TOKENS ( becoming part of the ADA Solar Farm Generation with 1000 WATTS) or 1000 USD

Timeline

Day 1:

8:30 - 9:00 Team registration

9:00 - 9:30 Event Kick off , brief introduction and announce the challenges and contest content and requirements and prizes.

18:00 end of the first day event and to be continue the next day

Buffet catering service is available all day

Day 2

9:00- 15:00 Each team continued with the project of day before

15:00- 16:00 Presentation of project or idea by teams

16:30-17:00 Anounce Three winners´s team and winners award ceremony.

Buffet catering service is available all day

KPI

-More than 5 teams (3-6 people/team) participated in the event

-Each team consisted of people from different fields with cross-disciplinary collaboration

-At least 5 teams completed their two-day trip and finish the challenge.

-At least 120 people attended the event

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Detail budget

The winning teams can opt to receive USD or SOLAR tokens and becoming part of the ADA Solar Farm Generation or USD. ADA SOLAR is an environmentally conscious project, born and funded through Cardano Catalyst Fund 7. (1 Watt = 1 Token SOLAR). This first solar farm using the Cardano blockchain will be built in San Juan and will be developed in an initial phase of 5 MW. Investors will receive rewards during 20 years once the solar farm starts to operate,.

· Prizes 6000 USD ( 3000 SOLAR TOKENS( 3000 Watts) first prize, 2000 SOLAR TOKENS second prize(2000 Watts), 1000 SOLAR TOKENS third prize( 1000 Watts) or equivalent in USD

· CLIMATHON videos and photos editing 500 USD

· CLIMATHON Marketing 500 USD

· Buffet catering services for 150 participants 3000 USD

· Venues expenses for two days (weekend) 150 participants 3000 USD

· T-shirt 1500 USD

· Organizers (including marketing, visiting different places for the Hackathon , designing T-shirt, organizing contests content, hiring mentors, two-days event coordination) 1500 USD x 2 persons x 2 days 3000 USD

· 4 Mentors salaries 30 USD X hour X8 hours X 2 days 1920 USD

Total Budget 19420 USD

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

José Iadicicco - Co-Organizer of Summit 2021 Buenos Aires and Cardano Hackathon 2022. 5MW ADA SOLAR Project. IT specialist, SPO, Telecommunications, Solar Energy specialist, Infrastructure, Engineering and Network Management Systems. ADA ONE POOL Stake Pool Operator.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-iadicicco-17363613/>

Ke Hua Yang- Co-Organizer Summit 2021 Buenos Aires and Cardano Hackathon 2022 . 5MW ADA SOLAR Project. ADA ONE POOL Community Manager. Experience in organizing Big Events 100+ people for more than 3 years.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kehua-yang-b3505439/>

Leonardo Adrián Zini. Graduated from the National University of Lomas de Zamora, with more than 20 years of experience working as a Health, Safety, Hygiene and Environment Consultant. Professional in health, environmental protection, hygiene, safety and electrical installations. He is dedicated to the implementation of Environmental Management and Health and Safety of the Company. He will assist to coordinate the project.

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo-adri%C3%A1n-zini-2864762b/>

Eng. Patricio Hernan Vera Co-founder of Externum Ingenieria S.R.L. Master of Business Administration MBA, Administration and business management, general in Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Over 10 years working in engineering design and field service in the power generation industry, managing high performance equipment and high efficiency facilities. "The most difficult problems are often solved by applying simple solutions. It's time to solve the most important problem we have, climate change. Solar energy can lead a simple solution that involves changing our habits and reducing our carbon footprint so that future generations can have a clean world to live in."

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricio-hernan-vera-68b817b3/>

With the former experience of coordinating Cardano Summit 2021 Buenos Aires event for 120 people and will organize Hackathon 2022, we know that CLIMATHON could attract many community members, students, entrepreneurs, developers and pro-green activists and enthusiasts who want to participate, therefore we would love to organize a two-day CLIMATHON, gathering people of all background and skills to partner up and compete in development contests, supervised by a suitable jury, in order to encourage collaborative work among them and exchanging innovative ideas for an even more sustainable world.

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

If the event is successful and achieves its goal of raising environmental awareness and bringing it into daily life, we may be able to build on the success and continue to promote environmental awareness so that more people can join the campaign to protect the Earth, and we will therefore consider holding another similar event.

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

The success of this event depends on:

1-Whether the number of participants reached our target, i.e. at least five groups signed up and 120 people participated in the event

2-Whether the group was able to complete the task within the time frame we specified in order to see if the timing was appropriate or if the task was suitable

3-Whether the participating organizations have developed products or services related to environmental issues

4- Whether the participants understood the importance of environmental protection through the event

What does success for this project look like?

This event can be considered a success if:

1-At least five groups sign up and 120 people participate in the event

2-The group completes the task within the time frame we specify

3-The participating groups developed products or services related to environmental issues

4-The participants understand the importance of environmental protection through the event

5-Positive impact on the dissemination of environmental protection concepts

6-Participants hope that we will continue to organize the next event on environmental issues

7- Everyone was satisfied with the two-day schedule

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

entire new one