Hi Kusama folks ,

We are one of the first Chinese units engaged in improving professional skills in the digital economy under the general outline of the "Digital China Development Plan". The founding team was invited to participate in China's second global blockchain industry conference in 2016. Summit Forum, in 2018, it cooperated with the first batch of blockchain universities in China, such as Tsinghua University, China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shenzhen University, etc.

Problem and Solution

The basis for the continued prosperity of the Polkadot ecosystem is a steady stream of high-quality developers. We very much agree with the educational philosophy and practical results of Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA).However, the high participation threshold and steep learning experience, especially English-taught courses, have dampened the enthusiasm of a large number of potential developers and builders. We believe that in the Chinese community, there should be an introductory course for PBA and a mechanism for a large number of undergraduate graduates to participate in the construction of Polkadot.

To this end, we will establish IUR-DAO and cooperate with three Chinese universities to guide potential developers to the Polkadot ecosystem through a combination of undergraduate graduates' learning, innovation and entrepreneurship. Briefly, we intend to carry out four main tasks in this proposal:

Due to protecting the privacy of these Universities we highly recommend sending us an Email for the contract with the colleges. I think it's appropriate not to mention names here. The name of the partner university will be replaced by ABC University below.

• Cooperate with ABC University on the Polkadot ecological project.
• Create PBA Chinese introduction courses and train the university’s blockchain course instructors.
• Carry out graduate project design and entrepreneurial practice or join an existing parallel chain team for internship.
• Guide and recommend outstanding graduates to participate in Polkadot Hackathon.

In the future, we will make improvements based on the actual results of this project and promote it to more Chinese universities to cooperate with us.

Key Results and Goals

Workscope & OKR Breakdown: February 2024 - July 2024

Objective：Accelerate the enthusiasm of Polkadot ecosystem builders to participate and cultivate more potential high-quality developers to enter the Polkadot ecosystem.

• PBA Chinese introductory course OKRs for the 6 months period of this proposal: Completed the Chinese translation of PBA-Book.Based on the technical characteristics of Polkadot and the necessary knowledge points for developing basic applications, combined with the actual knowledge level of undergraduates, the PBA English course has been appropriately tailored. Trained for CUIT instructors how to use the PBA Chinese introductory course. Use the PBA Chinese introduction course to train 900 undergraduate students across the college. All recorded live streams will be uploaded to YouTube channel. Select highlights from the live streams will also be transcribed into text and published as articles.

• Cooperation framework with universities OKRs for the 6 months period of this proposal: Sign a cooperation agreement with ABC university. Developed an innovation and entrepreneurship Polkadot training plan for over 1000 students. Innovative training project: Undergraduate students individually or in teams, under the guidance of instructors, independently complete the design of polkadot innovative experimental methods and write summary reports, etc. The innovation training project advocates the application of projects based on practical problem research combined with the needs of cutting-edge technology in the blockchain industry, and is encouraged to be combined with undergraduate graduation thesis (design). Parachain training project: Under the guidance of school instructors, each student plays one or more specific roles in the project implementation process. By conducting feasibility studies, preparing parachain plans, and simulating operations, Carry out a certain level of coding, write entrepreneurial reports, etc. Entrepreneurship practice project: Under the joint guidance of school mentors and business mentors, student teams use the results of previous innovation and entrepreneurship training projects to propose an innovative product or service with market prospects, and carry out entrepreneurial practice activities based on this. Distributing all contents across more than 3 largest blockchain media or communities outlets in China.

• Educational Contents Production OKR for the 6 months period of this proposal: Select 100 outstanding papers from 1000 undergraduate graduation papers and publish them in no less than 5 mainstream blockchain media or communities in China.The total number of delivery times is not less than 100*5. Topics other than outstanding papers include introducing infrastructure projects in the Polkadot ecosystem, parachains,helping the community understand ecological diversity and the experiences during the learning process. Design and produce a graduation certificate in the form of NFT.

• User metrics OKR for the user growth goal we want to achieve based on the above three work results: Target users: more than 1000 users to enter the polkadot ecosystem. Potential builders: more than 50. marketing means: Publish a Polkadot-related article every day to attract users to follow the Wechat official account. Host 1 online live broadcast per week and transfer the user from the broadcast room to the Wechat official account. Include a follow method at the end of all our videos. Occasionally release our own custom-designed Polkadot swags to attract users to follow and share articles to increase article views. Each month, we collaborate with one ecosystem project to launch small user growth activities, such as DeFi liquidity provision, staking, gift giveaways, and airdrops. These are specifically designed events that require close coordination with the eco teams.

• Reporting IUR-DAO will focus on the Polkadot technical education in China assisting the Polkadot Community to expand the impact and cooperate with potential projects to help them build the dApp on Polkadot. We will publish a Monthly Review and Report on Polkassembly on the last day of every month, including performance data and all activities and materials created, to be shared with the Direction channel and comments on our original proposals for regular updates.

To be completed at submission, we apply for 2831 KSM total allocation for March 2024 - August 2024(6 month).

Appreciate your comments.

Thank you very much !

Joe