Bringing togather all of the educational establishments currently working in the Cardano exosystem to for a connected netwrok for sharing of information and content. Also looking to add new gloabl educational establishments to widen the glbal coverageand footprint to expose and educate a wider number of students and external participants.

1. Provide education programs to enhance community autonomy and participation.
2. Establish educational internships and affordable membership tiers to encourage engagement.
3. Develop a university network and Creative Commons educational materials through RFPs.
4. Support Intersect adoption with guides and resources and community education .
5. Offer practical education on Catalyst, DeFi, security, and participation in the Cardano ecosystem.

Build a University Network to get students interested and learning the right coding languages and skills.

1.Intersect Usage Support
Develop guides, videos, and chat groups for Intersect usage.
Provide resources for non-members, members, committees, working groups, and SIGs.
Supported by the Community Support WG and Group Design WG.
Exclusive content for members, including Cardano updates, research, and educational resources.

2.Cardano Community Education (Excluding On-Chain Governance)

MCC will create educational materials for the internal Cardano community.

• Covers Catalyst participation
• DeFi engagement
• fraud cases
• ADA security best practices.

Excludes on-chain governance (handled by Civic Committee) and external education (handled by G+MC).

There is a huge appetite for education within the ecosystem, but all of these efforts are currently siloed and missing a coehisive structure, a journey to go from zero to hero. There is no overarching network that pulls together all of the available learning material to best leverage them in a context and environments that will encourage large groups of new participants to join the Cradano ecosystem.

University Network
Generate a network of educational partners to collate and share a syllabus of intro and learning content This would include bringing together all of the global univesities currently working on Cardano based projects (reserch, teaching, delivery etc) Support learning and provide certification. Encourage people to become DReps or an SPO Sponsor and promote those new skills by creating opportunities with ecosystem partners Promote the success stories back through the education system for others to see that there is an opportunity Wider global exposure to student networks to learn and collaborate on Cardano educational programs

Creative Commons licensed Cardano Educational materials

• Educational content is viewed by 30% of Intersect members.
• Create material for the community to use, remix, recyle to create engaging educational resources
• Increase in knowledge and awareness of Intersect and Cardano - what we do, how we benefit the wider Cardano ecosystem.
• Global outreach. language accessibility
• Educational materials to help enterprises to onboard to Cardano and better understand the value proposition of the technology and how to use Cardano in their initiatives

Tangible outcomes:

1. Gain access to a wider global community of students who can be educated and inducted into the Cardano ecosystem as new participants
2. A connected university network and focal point for all educational establishements invovled in Cardano globally
3. Educational materials shared across the network for delivery to students
4. Working with participating universities to generate a creative commons curriculum that anyone in the world can pickup independantly or use in classrooms.

University Network Creation - $60,000

• liaisng,
• co-ordinateion
• agreement on educational outputs across the network,
• scheduling of student sessions

Creative Commons licensed Cardano Educational materials - $175,000

Intersect Membership Team to manage relationship and co-ordination as part of the Intersect annual budget ask. Supported by the MCC and appropriate working group.

We will be bringing together universities. Their collective hive mind and experience in the education field will be the primary driver for the program.

This proposal will be rolled into an Educational Membership Tier within Intersect which would be at zero cost and managed by the Membership Team at Intersect.

Here are some universities with one educational program or another. The goal of this proposal is to bring all of these universities and others together to create a unified curricolum

• Athens
• Draper University
• Edinburgh
• Wyoming
• Tokyo Institute
• University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka)
• William V. S. Tubman University - Liberia
• National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

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