NTTU �?On April 1, 2022, c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n Innovation and Incubation Center ((NIIC) cooperated with NTT Institute of International Education (NIIE) to organize the visual training on completing and presenting startup ideas for NIIE Startup 2022 Competition.

Attending the training, there were Dr. Dam Quang Thang – Chairman of the National Innovation Advisory Council – General Director of Agricare Vietnam Co., Ltd; Dr. Nguyen Manh Hoang – Vice Director of NTT Institute of International Education; MSc. Huynh Hong Mai �?Vice Director of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n Innovation and Incubation Center; together with students from NTT Institute of International Education.

Speaking at the beginning of the training session, Dr. Nguyen Manh Hoang – Vice Director of NTT Institute of International Education sent many thanks to the experts, hoped that the teams would learn a lot of experience in the training, and wished the NIIE Startup 2022 Competition to be taken place successfully.

Dr. Nguyen Manh Hoang spoke at the training session

At the training session, Dr. Dam Quang Thang – Chairman of the National Innovation Advisory Council – General Director of Agricare Vietnam Co., Ltd shared with students the implementation of innovative startup ideas and methods of completing pitching for innovative startup projects. In addition, students and competition teams were also trained on how to build and present business ideas according to the Lean Canvas model, as well as were introduced to the exam marking criteria to prepare the best for preliminary rounds of the NIIE Startup 2022 Competition.

Dr. Dam Quang Thang shared with students at the training session

The NIIE Startup 2022 competition was co-organised by c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n Innovation and Incubation Center (NIIC), NTT Institute of International Education (NIIE) and the Student Affairs Department, not only to spread the inspiration for innovative startups to NIIE students but also to discover and nurture talented young startups at NIIE, thereby to help talented young startups approaching and contributing to the development of the innovative startup ecosystem of the university in particular and the community in general.

Photos at the training session

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On February 14, 2022, the Innovation and Incubation Center (NIIC) collaborated with the Faculty of Business Administration, Student Affairs Department; Student Union of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n , together with entrepreneurs, speakers in the innovation startup ecosystem and the University’s Startup Mentor Network organized the 2^nd intake training course to improve innovation and startup capacity for students. The program’s theme is about: �?em>Starting a Business in 2022 with an Innovative Business Model – Starting a Business in 2022 with Project Presentation and effective fundraising through Zoom platform and livestream on the fanpage of the Innovation and Incubation Center.

Photos of the training course to improve entrepreneurship and innovation capacity of students at c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n

Attending the program, on the side of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n , there were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bach Long Giang �?Director of Innovation and Incubation Center cum Head of Science and Technology Department; Huynh Hong Mai, MSc. �?Deputy Director of the Innovation and Incubation Center; Bui Van Thoi, MSc – Vice Dean of Faculty of Business Administration; Truong Thi Cam Len, MSc. – Chairman of Startup Club. Guests of Honours included Tran Anh Tuan, MSc. �?Director of Pathfinder Brand and Strategy Consulting Company; Ms. Vo Thi Kim Ngan – CEO of Tan Hoang Vu Group – alumnus of the Faculty of Business Administration; Ms. Duong Tuong Nhi – CEO of Happy Lifestyle Company – Founder of Meta Lifestyle project. In particular, the program has also attracted more than 30 entrepreneurs in the Startup Mentoring Network; a large number of lecturers, more than 200 students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n .

Discussing about Starting a business in 2022 with an innovative business model, Bui Van Thoi, MSc. provided students with background knowledge about business models and steps to build a business model. Ms. Vo Thi Kim Ngan – CEO of Tan Hoang Vu Group directly shared about the business model as well as experiences and advice for young entrepreneurs.

Bui Van Thoi, MSc. – Vice Dean of Faculty of Business Administration, sharing useful knowledge about business models

Ms. Vo Thi Kim Ngan �?CEO Tan Hoang Vu Group

Regarding Starting a business in 2022 with effective project presentations and fundraising, Tran Anh Tuan, MSc. shared about the contents and methods to present the project well, thereby capturing the judges’ psychology in competitions and further, investors in the fundraising process. Also in the sharing session, Ms. Duong Tuong Nhi – CEO of Happy Lifestyle Company – Founder of Meta Lifestyle project, also gave a presentation on Meta Lifestyle project to help students easily grasp the project presentation method as well as raising capital with good efficiency.

Tran Anh Tuan, MSc. �?Director of Pathfinder Brand and Strategy Consulting Company, shared information at the training session

Duong Tuong Nhi �?CEO of Happy Lifestyle Company �?Founder of Meta Lifestyle project, presented about Meta Lifestyle project

The 2^nd intake training course to improve entrepreneurship and innovation capacity is a program within the framework of a series of training activities to improve entrepreneurship and innovation capacity for lecturers, staff, and students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n in 2022. This is the 4th training course held since the beginning of 2022. The purpose of the program is to equip trainees with the necessary knowledge and skills, to build and develop their spirit of creative entrepreneurship, scientific research, community service.

Speaking at the training session, Huynh Hong Mai, MA. �?Deputy Director of the Innovation and Incubation Center, emphasized the importance of innovative business models and business model transformation in innovative startups. Besides, presentation and fundraising skills to win investors are also an important factor when helping young entrepreneurs win presentations and raise capital for businesses.

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At the closing ceremony, the Organizing Committee sent sincere thanks to the Board of Presidents of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n , Ho Chi Minh City Student Cultural House, Southern National Startup Support and Advisory Council, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, Tan Viet My Trading Service Company Limited, Life Gift Vietnam Investment and Production Company. The committee expressed their appreciation to the speakers, the participating organizations, instructors and mentors who have accompanied NTTU’s startup activities, empowering and inspiring the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Hong – Vice President of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n speaking at the Closing Ceremony

In addition, the NTTU Innovation and Startup Incubation Center concluded all the events organized in the series of activities to celebrate the 2021 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week in Ho Chi Minh City.

Organizing PR activities on innovation and entrepreneurship to promote the 2021 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week in Ho Chi Minh City.

Organizing a training class to spread the spirit of Active Citizen under the program of the British Council for 60 students and with lecturers to develop 10 creative social projects.

Signing MOU with the Southern National Startup Support and Advisory Council, Ho Chi Minh City Student Culture House and IPO-Sihub Club on collaboration and connection with businesses to coordinate innovation and startup activities among students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n and students from other universities in Ho Chi Minh City and nation-wide.

Business Forum Newspaper, National Startup Portal, NTTU Website, NIIC Website, NTTU Fanpage, Ho Chi Minh City Student Cultural House Fanpage, the F&B Sihub Community�?are regularly publishing news about NTTU’s innovation and start-up activities in collaboration with partners.

The NTTU Innovation and Startup Incubation Center joined the Southern National Startup Support and Advisory Council in training to improve entrepreneurship and TOT capabilities for universities in Long An Province, and Kien Giang Province. The Center also participated in mentoring and judging for external startup competitions. It is also a member of the start-up policy network initiated by the Ministry of Science and Technology, thereby spreading the positive image of NTTU to the startup community.

Organizing a startup competition among students to select feasible projects to incubate

The 2021 Students with Innovative Start-up Ideas Contest is organized by c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n in collaboration with Ho Chi Minh City Student Culture House and the Southern National Startup Support and Advisory Council. Even though the contest took place during the complicated development of Covid-19 epidemic, it still attracted 50 student projects from 17 universities and colleges across the country (typically Da Nang University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City FPT University, RMIT University Hanoi, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, University of Finance – Marketing, Banking University,  Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Economics and Law, Kien Giang University, Foreign Trade University, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy, College of External Economics,. ..). c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n had 30 projects while other participating institutions had 20 projects. 24 teams entered the semi-final round and the final round with 11 teams competing for 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 2 third prizes and 6 consolation prizes. There were a total of 5,000 students who joined in related activities. The organizer selected 11 startup projects with innovative, novel, feasible plans to support, incubate and implement the project. 11 excellent winning teams comprised members from NTT’s Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Environmental and Food Engineering; Faculty of Biotechnology; NTTU’s Institute of Science and Information Technology.

Organizing 3 rounds of training and seminars on Mentoring, training sessions to improve the capacity of staff and lecturers on innovation and Mentoring.

Through the startup competition, NIIC connected mentors to select practical projects to incubate and implement. The NIIC also organized 3 training activities to improve project quality, perfect products and develop business models that took place between the 2 semi-final and final rounds. These programs aim to provide knowledge, skills and basic tools, methods to write project descriptions, business planning, project financing, application of innovation, perfecting products and developing business models, communication techniques, raising funds and presentation to investors.

NIIC also had programs to strengthen Mentoring skills for staff, lecturers and NIIC’s Mentor network through Mentor – Mentee connection workshop taking place on August 27, 2021 through an online platform, with the participation of the Board of Presidents, 140 participants including 30 Deans of Faculties, Institute Directors and Heads of related departments, 30 Entrepreneurs from the Southern National Startup Support and Advisory Council, IPO Entrepreneur Club -Sihub, Business Club of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n , project mentors and 100 students from teams entered the semi-finals.

All the finalist teams of the annual startup competitions were introduced by NIIC to businesses and received their support, with incubators registered to assist in Mentoring, and mentors to incubate groups. Annual incubation package at NIIC from 01 month to 01 year is worth VND 180,000,000 millions.

In collaboration with the Southern National Startup Support and Advisory Council, in December 2021, the NIIC will organize a startup mentoring training course and issue certificates of course completion to 70 staff and lecturers. Sponsors provide support to help teams organize project implementation, setting up representative offices, building free commercial websites and registering for intellectual property registrations.

Startup project incubation activities:

8 individuals who helped in incubating from the semi-finals to the final round of The 2021 Students with Innovative Start-up Ideas Contest were awarded letters of appreciation and medals for completing the task of mentoring startups and 8 groups with 44 students receiving Mentee certificates completing the incubation course.

The project of Applying Spirulina as shrimp feed to improve the environment, which won the Champion of the 2020 National Startup Competition under the guidance of MSc. Huynh Van Hieu, is now cooperating with enterprises to implement production in the form of Spin out companies.

Incubating 15 projects to participate in high-level competitions outside NTTU: CiC Startup Idea Contest organized by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City, Global Startup Competition organized by VCCI and Business Forum Magazine, Women with Startup Contest organized by Central Vietnam Women’s Union, Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge (VSIC 2021) by Business Ideas Team Organized by FTU2, “Rural Youth Startup Project 2021” contest organized by Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee

Incubating projects benefiting the community: SK NONI Morinda Citrifolia Project �?Ca Mau Province, Pha Phang Son Gac Project (Women of Kien Giang Province), Soap made from Terminalia Catappa Leaves Project (Kien Giang University), HABUKA study habit building institute, ‘JM English for kid�?project of Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics.

As a result, nearly 100 individuals and groups were rewarded for excellent achievements, of which 5 Mentors were awarded the title of excellent mentor, 1 couple won the Mentor – Mentee award. There were also awards for excellent instructors, excellent judges, and excellent units with 10 participating groups.

After the competition of the 2021 Students with Innovative Start-up Ideas Contest, the NIIC formed partnerships with the F&B Renovation Hub, IPO-SIHUB Entrepreneurs Club, and connected to the Ministry of Science and Technology’s startup support policy and research network, and the National Startup Advisory Council. NIIC also cooperated with Thuy Moc Viet Import-Export Co., Ltd. on collaboration in technology development and implementation of student scientific research topics.

Currently, the facilities for NIIC’s start-up activities are improved significantly. NIIC opened a new co-working space for start-up groups, connecting shared laboratories for lecturers and students to implement pilot production. In the future, NIIC will continue to expand its partnerships with businesses and partners to build and operate the Sandbox Model connecting investors with Startup Founders, and elements of the National Startup Ecosystem to build an exchange system of award-winning and potential start-up projects via the Blockchain platform. In order to promote innovation and entrepreneurship for staff – lecturers and students, it is expected that in December 2021, NIIC will coordinate to organize a Mentoring training course.

Some pictures of activities taking place at the Closing Ceremony:

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Over the past 21 years of establishment and development, the university has built a permanent team of lecturers including thousands of scientists and experts in many fields, in addition to thousands of lecturers from businesses, practical mentors from businesses, agencies, organizations…who are dedicated to contributing to the training of young generations. The university is proud to have many programs that meet AUN standards as well as higher education quality accreditation standards of the Ministry of Education and Training. As a result, the University is ranked 4 stars by the international accreditation organization, QS (UK) and is also rated 4 stars according to the UPM higher education institution quality comparison system. Currently, the university is training for more than 30,000 students studying in 54 majors. The employment rate of graduates is over 95%. The special thing is that all students of the University are equipped with the spirit of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills.

NTTU Innovation and Incubation Center (NIIC) belongs to c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n , established under Decision No. 427/QD-NTT-TC, dated October 6, 2014 with the aim to assist students, groups of individuals, and start-ups to develop scientific research results into commercially viable and competitive products and services by providing guidances, expertise, essential business support services, financial support and connecting businesses to the right business network and startup ecosystem.

The center operates on a non-profit model. NIIC aims at spreading inspiration, promoting creativity and entrepreneurship, focusing on 100% of students, 50% of postgraduates, lecturers, researchers. For the goal of supporting individuals, the group of individual technology startups focuses 30% on students and 100% on graduate staff, lecturers, and researchers. In addition, NIIC also aims to support the commercialization of innovative and creative products and services aimed at students, groups of students, lecturers, young businesses with potential products and services. The complete capacity is innovative, suitable for market demand, but lacks of commercialization capacity.

After 7 years of operation, NIIC has not only supported and spread the innovative entrepreneurial spirit to students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n but also made many impressions in the innovation startup community in Ho Chi Minh City in particular and the whole country in general through activities such as:

Activities to connect businesses, spread creative inspiration

Advising and helping the University connect more than 300 businesses and startups in the national network of innovative start-up ecosystems initiated by the Ministry of Science and Technology for Universities. Connect with the 844 Project, National Start-up Day Program, the Government’s national startup portal.

Participating in the Southern National Start-up Advisory Council, members of the Business Association of District 5, District 6, District 8 and the Association for Intellectual Women of Ho Chi Minh City, IPO-SIHUB Entrepreneur Club. Connecting NTTU startup activities with partners in Ben Tre and Kien Giang provinces, F&B Renovation Hub, Market Development Department-Ministry of Science and Technology.

Operate Nguyen Tat Thanh Junior Entrepreneur Club

The club has more than 100 members, NJEC aims to become a leading club in entrepreneurship and innovation for students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n , providing a startup playground for students, organizing training courses, improving entrepreneurship skills for NTTU students and spreading inspiration, promoting the creation of start-up student groups.

Activities of training courses

Every year, the Center collaborates with VCCI, Business Forum Magazine, and Vietnam Silicon Valley Foundation to organize innovative startup training courses and grant certificates to 550 students. Coaching many start-up classes for hundreds of lecturers, 1000 students and 100 young people in Kien Giang province.

In collaboration with experts in the IPP program, Vasco trains to improve innovation capacity for faculty and staff of the university and businesses.

Events

The university’s annual Creative Startup Contest attracts not only thousands of students from c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n but also students from other universities and colleges. NTTU STARTUP OPEN Day 2019 contest, attracting students from 10 universities to participate, the contest in 2020, with the participation of 37 student projects. Especially, the students with creative startup ideas contest in 2021, despite the complicated Covid-19 epidemic, still attracted the participation of 50 projects of students from 14 universities and colleges across the country.

Every year, the Center organizes 2-4 training courses on entrepreneurship and innovation for nearly 400 students inside and outside the university. These start-up training courses are highly appreciated by lecturers and students due to the gathering of a team of experienced, enthusiastic and dedicated business trainers who have spread creative inspiration and provided knowledge, entrepreneurship skills, entrepreneurship spirit for students, instructors and project teams.

The Hult Prize 2020 competition conducted by the Center had the participation of 12 teams, 500 students and went to the Regional round.

Organize knowledge exchange & talk show events with successful entrepreneurs for students to spread creative entrepreneurial inspiration. Participated in 4 exhibitions at Techfest Mekong, Ho Chi Minh City Techfest, Youth Culture Day, technology supply and demand conference.

NTTU Startup Contest becomes an annual familiar contest for students

Startup incubation

Incubation of ideas and projects at an early stage is always focused by NIIC to incubate startups. Every year, NIIC organizes startup incubation activities for 20-30 startup projects of students and startups. Projects have the opportunity to compete in many big competitions such as: Hult Prize, Rural Youth with Indigenous Resources, Techfest, National Women Entrepreneurship, Luong Van Can Talent Award. In particular, the National Startup Competition organized by VCCI and Business Forum Magazine has honored 2 projects incubated by NIIC for 2 consecutive years, in which the VinaCrab’s shellfish project won the Contest Champion. National start-up 2020 and the Project of Applying Spirulina to shrimp feeding and improving the environment won the Champion of the National Startup Competition 2021. The university’s student group also won high prizes at Eureka, Bach Khoa Innovation Ideas…

c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n team becomes the National Startup Champion in 2020

Startup projects associated with enterprises for implementation include Dr. Rau- shaving gel, Application of spirulina to shrimp food and environmental improvement, Black termite mushrooms, VinaCrab soft shell crab, application of artificial intelligence in vocational training for students… NIIC connects businesses to start-up projects of students who research and build Spin-off, Spin-out companies and the Student Fund for Innovative Start-ups.

Community activities

NIIC attended many seminars connecting innovative start-up networks, co-chaired 4 seminars on building innovative startup ecosystems at Tra Vinh University, Kien Giang University, and Kien Giang College, Kien Giang Vocational College, Techfest Mekong.

International cooperation on innovation with universities in Korea, Singapore, APCoRE, researchers and educators in the Asia-Pacific region. Collaborated with the University of Sydney to survey and comment on students’ relationships in the context of Covid-19. In collaboration with the British Council for 3 years 2019-2021, successfully organized the 5-class Active Citizen training program for social creativity for 300 students, improving the coordinator’s capacity, the results created a source of ideas for 45 social creative start-up projects for formation, funding for 4 start-up projects to carry out projects into reality.

NIIC pays great attention to protecting intellectual property rights for startup ideas, connecting intellectual property units to support startups and young businesses to register for intellectual property protection, commercialize products, access to capital sources in the entrepreneurial journey.

Participating in training to improve staff capacity, completing classes on Technology Evaluation, Project Management for commercialization of research results, IPO-Sihub, Spin-off operation management, Fintech…

It could be said that, over the years, NIIC has quickly built a team of a young, dynamic and creative members and has achieved very positive results. The regular continuous training and start-up events have spread the creative entrepreneurial spirit among staff, lecturers and students. In particular, winning the top prizes at the Startup Competitions has not only encouraged the entrepreneurial spirit of the students, but also resonated in the business community and the startup ecosystem domestically and abroad and contributed to sources of desmonstrations satisfying the criteria of AUN and QS Star standards. Along with the investment in spacious facilities, high-quality research equipment to support the concrete implementation of innovative ideas, NIIC is striving to build itself in accordance with the criteria of the international startup standards.

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After several rounds of competitions, the “2021 Student Contest with Innovative Start-up Ideas” is officially moving to the final stage. The program is organized by c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n in collaboration with the NTTU’s Youth Union, the Ho Chi Minh City Student Cultural House and the Southern National Startup Support Advisory Council. Especially in this year’s competition, students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n had a spectacular comeback, participating in 7 out of 12 excellent projects that entered the final round.

The “2021 Student Contest with Innovative Start-up Ideas” aims to promote the spirit of innovation and creativity in life as well as in learning – scientific research of students of c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n . Meanwhile, it also equips students with knowledge, skills, and opportunities to practice and build entrepreneurial groups among NTTU students. This year’s competition is an opportunity for the organizers to search and select innovative ideas and projects with originality and creativity to support, incubate the successful implementation of participating projects to become new Startups. Based on that, students are able to network with business representatives, creating opportunities for potential projects to meet and approach investors. This is NTTU’s annual program to find and honor outstanding project developers and startups. The competition started in May 2021, taking place during the complicated development of Covid 19. However, the competition still attracted 50 projects from 14 universities and colleges across the country. Before coming to the Preliminary Round, 164 students from participating teams had undergone a training course on how to write a startup project description and implementation plan.

The organizer has selected 30 projects to enter the Semi-Final. This year’s competition is a journey of many unique ideas that are highly appreciated by the judges in terms of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. At the Semi-final, the Top 30 projects were successfully completed in 4 days (from August 23 to 26, 2021) with several sections including presentations, project introduction videos, media slides, answer questions and online quizzes from the organizers. Previously, 120 students from 30 groups completed a training course on startup model development, business structures, video editing and project communication. Through rounds of consultation, discussions and fair evaluation, 12 projects were accepted to enter the final round on September 22, 2021.

The journey of creating a start-up is like the race of dreams. The entrepreneurs have to fight for their own passion and ambitions by themselves. To win the race, a startup must have creative thinking and innovation along with determination, perseverance and careful preparation to be able to overcome difficulties, step by step transforming their simple ideas into a successful startup.

The organizers would like to express their sincere thanks to the eliminated teams who have accompanied and tried their best during the competition. Each group will have different experiences and plans in the future. Let’s experience the Mentoring program with your Mentor in the next 3 months.

Let NTTU start-up take you closer to the door of success. See you all at the final round on September 22, 2021.

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On August 27, 2021, c��c nh�� c��i uy t��n siyanks.com - App game ??i th??ng uy t��n (NTTU) cooperated with Ho Chi Minh City’s Student Culture House and the Southern Startup Support Advisory Council to organize a Mentor Connection Workshop for the 2021 Student Startup Projects. The aims of the workshop are to equip themselves with knowledge and foundational skills about Mentoring; to help students find their Mentors who can assist the project, as well as to provide an opportunity to exchange Mentor experiences of start-up companies to learn, connect, develop networks. This can especially help the teams successfully complete their projects in the final round. The �?021 Student Startup Projects�?attracted the participation of 50 projects of students from 14 universities and colleges across the country. Up to now, TOP 30 projects have completed the competition in the Semi-Final.

Especially at the Mentor Connection Workshop for the 2021 Student Start-up Projects took place right before the Final Round. The workshop received the attention of the University’s Board of Presidents and 140 participants, including 30 Faculty Deans, Institute Directors and related departments. The workshop welcomed 30 entrepreneurs from the Southern National Startup Advisory Council, NTTU Business Club, IPO Entrepreneur Club – Sihub as Mentors for participating projects and more than 80 students from different universities and colleges.

At the conference Dr. Tran Ai Cam – Acting President of the University gave a very important speech, expressing NTTU’s development directions toward innovation, NTTU’s interests for creative start-ups. The workshop provided useful knowledge and practical experience on Mentoring by IPP Experts �?MSc. Truong Thanh Hung, Vice Chairman of the National Startup Advisory Council and talks from the participants. The workshop was highly appreciated and supported by the delegates, enterprises and students. At the end of the workshop, 15 groups of Mentor – Mentee successfully connected to prepare for the first 3 months of Mentoring process, from September to November 2021.

It can be seen that the workshop took place with tremendous success via the online platform, providing in-depth and useful knowledge that the lecturers brought to the workshop. The organizers hoped that the teams would accumulate a lot of useful knowledge to be able to complete their project and continue on their entrepreneurial path. Wish you all overcome the hardship in the future, achieving success from the journey ahead.

Besides, the organizers would like to thank the trainers, mentors, entrepreneurs who, despite the complicated epidemic situation, still spend their precious time to share and deliver their experiences and knowledge and practical, valuable and useful knowledge for participants in terms of setting project goals /market approach/ call for investment.

Some photos from the conference:

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