TLDR: We are organising a coordination program for the EA intro course. If you are a running a group you can join to save time on ops and receive support with promoting your program. For now, we are gathering Expressions of interest from groups and volunteer facilitators.
Express your interestEA Hungary is teaming up with several other EA groups to start a project called Scaling Altruism. The broader case for such an initiative is made in this post, so here we will just outline what we offer and how you or your group can join.
Our current plan:
- Approximate timeline: late February/early March to May
- Structure: 8 weeks course discussion groups
- Format: Weekly discussion groups (5-10 people)
- Curriculum: The EA intro course, also known as the EA Handbook
- Locations: Mostly online groups (local where possible)
This is not a registration form - we're gathering feedback to optimise our approach. Please express your interest here, and if you have any questions shoot us an email at info[at]eahungary.com
Thanks for sharing! What is the case for people joining this instead of The Introductory EA Program?
I personally love this post as I've been thinking about some angles to contribute back to EA eg especially in terms of diversifying EA (perhaps in my case, I could connect with EA-Malaysia & scale more works alongside AIS; or start my own group), or some other ideas listed in GSheet of Projects EAIF might be excited about and Ideas EAIF is excited about post too last month, eg Epistemics Training, High-Quality Experimentation with TikTok idea, and Field-building efforts based around compute governance (as I'm also involved with PauseAI), after reading.
I personally would love to join this, as Facilitator that Wants to be an Organizer in Scaling Altruism. Hence, I truly look forward for ways we could enhance the curriculum to also have some resources on running/ scaling EA post-course.
Side question (of interest): would you say having a more defined target audience is better (eg EA discussion for students only rather than mixed)? I asked for input, based on your experiences, perhaps; the context of why I am interested to have a mixed group was to have a test on which target audience would be more effective post-course too.