Final round of Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Talent Search

On the morning of October 9, the Department of Science and Technology opened the final round of the Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Talent Search Competition 2021 (Techfest Nghe An Open 2021). Attending the opening ceremony were Mr. Tran Quoc Thanh - Director of the Department of Science & Technology, along with representatives of departments, branches and projects that made it to the final round.

Opening ceremony of the Final Round of the Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Talent Search Competition 2021. Photo: Lam Tung

Got Talent ContestNghe An Innovation StartupTechfest Nghe An Open 2021 with the theme "Song Lam Aspiration" is a program to search for and support innovative startups (established under 5 years) founded or co-founded by Nghe An people or individuals, groups of individuals, and businesses. With "Song Lam Aspiration" and focusing on startups in Nghe An, the competition aims to search, select, and honor startup ideas and projects that have the potential to grow rapidly based on exploiting intellectual property, technology, and new business models.

Along with that, the program connects resources of policy experts, finance, market, tradition and development partners for startups. Teams participating in the competition have the opportunity to call for capital directly from investment funds in the province, domestically and internationally.

Mr. Tran Quoc Thanh - Director of the Department of Science and Technology delivered the opening speech. Photo: Lam Tung

Techfest Nghe An open 2021 prioritizes the following areas: Agriculture; Medicine - Pharmacy; Tourism; Education, Training and Pioneering Technology. Projects with high prizes will join the Vietnamstartupecosystem network, participate in the Techfest Vietnam 2021 competition and have the opportunity to compete in the Startup World Cup competition.

Representative of Pha Lai Eco-tourism Project presents the competition entry. Photo: Lam Tung

Launched in May 2021, the competition received more than 106 applications from organizations and individuals nationwide. After the preliminary round, the Organizing Committee selected 20 projects with the highest scores and 01 project won first prize.Nghe An Hackathon2021 will be specially considered for the final round of the Competition.

The final round of Techfest Nghe An open 2021 is held in 01 day in live and online formats.

The judges at the connecting points discussed the feasibility of the project. Photo: Lam Tung

At the end of the final round, the organizing committee will award 01 First prize, 02 Second prizes, 03 Third prizes and 04 Consolation prizes.

The Top 3 of Techfest Nghe An open 2021 will go straight to the project appraisal round of VSV-Nghe An Investment Fund with an investment offer of up to 40,000 USD./.