SV.STARTUP 2023 named two projects of LHU

On the afternoon of March 26, in Hue city, the Ministry of Education and Training in collaboration with the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Thua Thien Hue provincial People's Committee and Hue University held the closing ceremony of the National Startup Festival for students and awarded the competition “Students with startup ideas” for the 5th time. 

 The 5th national startup festival for students named two teams of LHU

The "Seafarer positioning system to support sea rescue" project carried out by the FSOS team including students from Faculty of Information Technology and Faculty of Administration - International Economics, won the Third prize in the Agriculture, forestry and fishery category. "Multi-application fuel cell system development" project by the FCT20 team including students from Faculty of Information Technology, Faculty of Administration - International Economics and Faculty of English Language won the Consolation prize at the 5th national startup festival for students.

Rector DSc. Lam Thanh Hien (middle) motivated and gave strength to the two teams

The competition "the 5th Students with startup ideas" was launched by the MoET in November, 2022, aiming at students from universities, academies, junior colleges, intermediate schools, junior and high schools across the country.

This year's contest included 5 fields namely Industry, product manufacturing; Agriculture, forestry and fishery; Education, tourism, services, finance; Medical, health care, beauty technology; Business creating social impact.

The competition aims to promote the spirit of entrepreneurship among students. From 508 entries from students, junior and senior high school pupils, the organizers selected 80 best projects for the voting round and the final round. In which, there were 50 projects of students and 30 projects of high school students.

In the end, the organizers awarded more than 80 prizes for students and pupils including 10 First, 20 Second, 30 Third and 20 Consolation prizes and 4 sub-prizes for 4 teams winning the vote prizes and the booth prizes.

Previously, this project was awarded the Third prize at the BR-VT’s Fisheries Industry Innovation Startup Contest 2022

At the closing ceremony, the Ministry of Education and Training officially launched the 6th Students with startup ideas competition (the 6th SV.STARTUP).