Nghe An awarded 75 science and technology innovation prizes; 10 innovative startup talent prizes, honoring 20 outstanding scientists

Attending the program were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; representatives of units under the Ministry of Science and Technology and comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Provincial People's Committee, leaders of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation and departments, branches;...

SCIENTIFIC VALUE, HIGH PRACTICAL APPLICATION EFFICIENCY

Nghe An Province Innovation and Startup Festival (Techfest Nghe An) is the largest annual event in Nghe An province for entities in the startup ecosystem (business community, startups, experts, innovation and startup consultants, investors, investment funds, etc.) to have the opportunity to meet, exchange, and learn from each other with the aim of spreading the startup spirit and entrepreneurial spirit to all classes of people in the province.

At the same time, through these activities, Nghe An province hopes to promote the formation of innovative thinking and solutions from creative startups to solve problems and challenges in society and the needs of businesses and corporations; connect the national innovative startup ecosystem and provinces in the North Central region; attract resources of experts, startup coaches, intellectuals, and domestic and foreign entrepreneurs to support startups.

As part of the series of events of the Nghe An Province Open Innovation and Startup Festival 2023, this year's Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Talent Search Contest with the theme "Connecting Founders" has received more than 120 applications from organizations and individuals across the country, of which 113 applications were registered online, after more than 9 months of launching.

After the qualifying round, training round and project completion consulting round, the Organizing Committee selected 20 most potential projects to enter the Final Round of the competition.

As a result, the Organizing Committee selected 10 startup projects to award prizes with 4 Encouragement prizes, 3 Third prizes, 2 Second prizes and 1 First prize. The projects were committed to investment by investors right at the program.



In addition, every three years, Nghe An province honors scientists, business organizations and individuals with outstanding scientific works that have been effectively applied to life through the Science and Technology Innovation Award Ceremony.

This year, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded a Certificate of Merit to20 individuals with outstanding achievementsin the field of science and technology, contributing to socio-economic development in the province.

75 projects were also awarded the Science and Technology Innovation Award.Nghe An in 2023; including 1 Special Prize, 14 First Prizes, 19 Second Prizes, 21 Third Prizes and 20 Encouragement Prizes. The winning authors received Certificates of Merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Lotus Cup for Science and Technology Creativity, and cash prizes. The total value of this year's prize is 2.07 billion VND.

PROMOTING THE INTELLIGENCE, DILIGENCE AND HARD WORK OF NGHE PEOPLE

Speaking at the most important event in the field of science and technology in Nghe An province, on behalf of the provincial leaders, Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee acknowledged and highly appreciated the scientific value and practical application effectiveness of the award-winning works; warmly congratulated the owners of the excellent innovations that were awarded.

Comrade Bui Dinh Long emphasized that the task of science and technology is extremely important in bringing Resolution No. 39-NQ/TW of the Politburo on building and developing Nghe An province to 2030, with a vision to 2045, into life.

Therefore, with the identified strategic policies and orientations on science and technology development and the urgent demands of socio-economic life, the leaders of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee hope that scientists, managers, intellectuals, startups and working people will continue to have many valuable innovations and high application efficiency.

In particular, focusing on key areas such as: Research and application of high technology in industry, agriculture, and services; innovating the growth model towards mainly relying on science and technology, innovation, creativity and digital transformation; developing green economy and circular economy.

At the same time, research and apply scientific and technological advances to turn key products and traditional products and specialties of Nghe An into high-volume, high-quality, strong-branded commodities.

Research on social sciences and humanities to exploit and promote human resources, liberate all social barriers; encourage and create favorable conditions for start-up businesses and startups to have opportunities to develop.

Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee Bui Dinh Long requested Party committees at all levels, authorities, agencies and units in the province to launch and organize creative labor movements in their agencies, units, enterprises and localities in a broad and practical manner; pay attention to discovering, appreciating and creating all conditions for new ideas, new innovations, good experiences to have the opportunity to be perfected and applied in practice; promptly encourage, support, commend and reward creative examples from the grassroots.

“I call on scientists, researchers, intellectuals, especially in universities, colleges, institutes, and research centers; businesses; engineers, doctors, technical staff, and professional staff in various fields, along with the majority of workers to be more dedicated, more responsible, and more creative in their work, so that more and more scientific research results and technological innovations can be applied in production, business, and life; contributing to increasing labor productivity, increasing product quality and competitiveness, as well as improving the economic and social efficiency of activities in various fields,” said Comrade Bui Dinh Long.

“The Science, Technology and Innovation Startup Award is one of the important solutions to exploit and promote the intelligence, diligence and hard work of the people of Nghe An. I hope and believe that, together with this award, scientific and technological innovation activities will increasingly develop and contribute more to the economic and social development of the province, so that we can “step really strong, go really far” in the not too distant future”, with that spirit, the Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee launched the Nghe An Science, Technology and Innovation Startup Award, period 2023 - 2026.

The Science and Technology Innovation Award Ceremony, the Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Talent Search Contest and the Honoring of Outstanding Scientists in 2023 concluded a series of successful and meaningful activities of the Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Festival 2023, which took place from October 11 to 13, including: Displaying and introducing typical startup products, science and technology products; Final round of the "Nghe An Open Innovation and Startup Talent Search Contest 2023"; Workshop "Promoting connectivity and development of the innovation and startup ecosystem in the North Central region"; Investment Connection Conference 2023; Talk show "Application of blockchain in digital transformation"...