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Call for Applications for NFT Talents: An 18-Week Mentoring Program Empowering Talent for Leadership in the NFT Space

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We have designed an 18-week long program with 3 phases that will help ambitious and young career starters to break into the non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem. Our goal is to guide the way for you to become entrepreneurs, technologists, lawyers, investors, or multiplicators in the surging NFT space. This program is completely free, you just have to apply. We will admit a maximum of 100 applicants to this program starting on June 7, 2022. The application deadline is May 16, 2022.

Introduction

With this program, we seek to empower innovators to dive into blockchain technology, in particular NFTs, to become leaders in this quickly developing field, and to build the basis for a successful career path. NFTs allow you to create, buy and sell ownership of unique digital assets and keep track of who owns them using the blockchain. This is a quickly developing application field of blockchain technology with enormous potential.

Here is our track record so far: More than 2000 talented people have applied so far in our related programs Defi Talents and DLT Talents; of these, we have mentored 500 from 2021 to 2022. After these “talents” have passed our 18-week mentoring program many of them will be ready for jobs in the blockchain space. For the future, we expect 3,000 applications per year and we will educate 600 talents per year. In the future, we offer 2 batches per cohort in order to meet the increased demand for this program — one in the afternoon, the other in the morning (Central European Time).

We envision that participants passing our program sooner or later can follow these career paths:

Background: Preparing for a more decentralized world

There are many NFT use cases that will reshape the way we track ownership of both digital and physical assets in the not too distant future. There is enormous transformative potential for various sectors once smart contracts can replace middlemen and even institutions. And NFTs are not limited to a country — like decentral networks, they are international by nature. As NFTs are still in their infancy, it can be expected that NFTs will continue to provide use cases around ownership that people on all continents can access. We need future-proof individuals ready to spearhead the NFT era and to shape the future for everyone’s benefit.

Now is a critical moment to seize this opportunity and to immerse yourself in NFTs, position yourself, and build a network. The network and the prototypes developed today will lay the foundation for essential professional relationships and real-life projects in a couple of months or years.

Who is operating this program?

This program is operated by the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center and partnering organizations. If you are interested as an organization in supporting this program, please contact us. This is the core team driving this endeavor:

In our bi-weekly Zoom sessions, we will invite other blockchain and NFT experts. For this, we draw on a pool of mentors and coaches:

What can you expect from our NFT Talents program?

Starting with our first batch on June 7, 2022, we will select a maximum of 100 high-potential candidates and coach them over the course of a 3-phase program over 18 weeks to become entrepreneurs, technologists, lawyers, investors, or multiplicators in NFT. Every two weeks, we will hold a Zoom session to deepen your knowledge and to advance your career in the NFT space.

This program is different. We will not hold lectures or do mentoring the conventional way. This is done elsewhere. With our stringent 3-phase program and remote group coaching sessions, we will focus on empowering you to build a footprint in the NFT space and become entrepreneurs, technologists, lawyers, investors, or multiplicators in this field. Remote sessions happening bi-weekly are a key tactic to bring together people from different countries.

These are the key principles of our program:

Why should you apply for this program?

Enter into NFT. This program should allow you to get an easy entry into the NFT space. We believe that this program strongly improves your employability and that your future career path will experience a significant boost.

Structured learning journey. You will also be equipped with the knowledge to understand NFT as a concept and to judge NFT applications. You will be able to “access” this very special domain with extremely varying characters — from entrepreneurs to lawyers, investors, and corporates. Our mentors and facilitated peer sessions are designed in a way to help you understand the core essentials in a short period of time. Our guest speakers are experts in their fields of the NFT universe.

Thriving network. Finally, we will provide a network and contacts to professionals in the NFT space. This is of particular importance because in such a small yet dynamic and growing field the breadth and depth of one’s personal network are key.

A NFT “boot camp”. Please only consider applying if you are up to the challenge. We are awaiting your application. In your application, shortly outline what brought your attention to NFTs and why you are the right candidate.

What exactly does the program look like?

We have developed a 3-phase model, which forms the backbone of the entire program — the basics phase, the multi-disciplinary phase, and ultimately the concentration phase (see Figure 1 below). These phases accompany the participants from the beginner level (basics phase) upwards to the generalist level (multi-disciplinary phase) and up to the specialist level (concentration phase).

Figure 1: NFT Talents 3-phase program over the course of 18 weeks to empower future NFT leaders

We meet every two weeks virtually as a group. These meetings last 90 minutes, and they are meant to help share our learnings, discuss open questions, and learn from experts in the field. We will ask you to come prepared for the meetings.

What is the agenda for each Zoom session?

Each Zoom session will have the following structure and a duration of 90 minutes:

In each Zoom session, the participants will present the findings of the assignment from the last session. The goal is not to lecture content to others. The goal is mainly to showcase what you have learned and what insights you have gotten — we call it “reflections”. Specifically, the participants should present their insights. They should not teach others. Learning of content is being done in the assignments the participants have to work on alone. The reflections will follow a structured format:

After the participant presentations, we will discuss the patterns that occurred regarding the insights of the entire group. The goal is to deepen and enrich our mutual understanding of the topic at hand. Thereafter, the assignment for the next session will be presented. All participants will work in one joint Google Slides document. Link sharing will be turned on and everybody will work on her/his slides within this single joint document. We do this to foster knowledge exchange and reduce technical frictions when presenting. We then have guest lecturers hold a keynote presentation. Questions on their presentations will be discussed subsequently. Each session closes with an outlook on the next session.

Summary: What are the key characteristics of the NFT Talents program?

Who should apply for this program and where to apply?

You should apply if you fulfill the following criteria:

If you have decided to apply, simply apply via this application form (you will need to upload a motivation letter and CV as a PDF file for the application; a Gmail address is also required). In case you have questions, please contact us via an email addressed to team@fs-blockchain.de — we will respond to you as soon as possible. The application deadline is May 16, 2022; 11:59 PM (CEST).
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