Berlin/German (Educational) Hub

Continuous Tasks:

• Alignment and proactive engagement within the Near -Business Development Team and Community (just inspiring to see what smart, talented and diverse group of people we are)
• Exchange of ideas and sharing of best practices
• Gather and set up current/relevant use cases
  • E.g. How to improve the quality of outreach in order to get better responses/result (for educational hubs & how to deeply engage potential teachers)
• Involvement of the near-edu-grant-process (streamlined, more efficient, faster)
• Advice and mentorship in social media activities (e.g.LinkedIn)
• Recruited an additional team member in Berlin (Fellowship) with regards to partnership management - very well connected in the web3 sector
• This will even great broader awareness of NEAR in Berlin/Germany

Goals achieved:

• Gathered uses cases and best practices for partners such as bootcamps, SME, marketplaces and companies (experience so far: they cannot really name concrete projects by themselves and need additional inspiration)
• Reach out to over 500 developers and freelancers (LinkedIn + own Community)
• Met in person with two of the biggest german bootcamps in Berlin, that are highly interested in working with NEAR:
  • Spiced Academy and Code University (of applied science)
• Spoke to over 10 potential partners (e.g. AW Academy, AI Guild, Hatch Conference, Fountain Institute…) and created significant traction in Berlin (majority very interested in working with us - concrete cases are getting identified and executed currently)
• Scheduled 4 calls with biggest co-working spaces (Factory, WeWork…)
• Scheduled 2 Calls with freelance platforms in May