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The Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition - LKYGBPC <Cuộc Thi Ý Tưởng Khởi Nghiệp Quốc Tế Lý Quang Diệu> is the global start-up competition organized by Singapore Management University's Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. It aims to illuminate student/alumni startups that create innovative solutions for a smart, sustainable, and resilient future and most importantly, convene the innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem for a week-long of activities in Singapore.  

The 11th edition of LKYGBPC is coming back with the theme: Innovations Beyond Boundaries (Phá bỏ giới hạn, Kiến tạo tương lai), where we look at the role of technologies across various industries in solving challenges of the 21st century.

Selected finalists will receive an all-expense paid trip to Singapore, numerous networking and mentorship opportunities with top VCs, and a shot at a $2 million prize pool!

WHO ATTENDS LKYGBPC?

  • Early-stage startups
  • Entrepreneurs and Student Founders
  • Inventors and TechProfessionals
  • Social & Sustainability Entities
  • Venture Capitalists (VC) and Investors
  • Corporates
  • Government Agencies and Urban Developers
  • Students & Faculty in Innovation, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship

AREAS OF FOCUS

  • Urban Solutions and Sustainability (Green Economy Technologies, Energy & Grid, Air, Water and Waste Management, AgriTech, FoodTech, Food Safety, Built Environment, PropTech and Sharing Economy)
  • Manufacturing, Trade & Connectivity (Industry 4.0, Supply Chain & Logistics Tech, Transportation & Mobility)
  • Human Health & Potential (Digitech, HealthTech, MedTech, Precision Medicine, Life Sciences & BioTech)
  • Smart Nation and Digital Economy (Smart Citizen, Smart Governance, Cybersecurity, Blockchain Technology, EdTech, LegalTech, FinTech, InsurTech, HRTech and eCommerce)
  • Media & Entertainment (Metaverse, Web 3.0 Impact on Social Media and D2C, Immersive Technology, Future of Gaming and Game-Fi)

WHO CAN APPLY?

  • Each team or startup must have at least founding member or founder, who is a current student or recent alumni of less than 5 years.
  • “Current student” is defined as any person who is enrolled in a full-time polytechnic, undergraduate, postgraduate, or PhD programme at a tertiary institute.
  • “Recent alumni” is defined as any person who graduated or left school or took a sabbatical after 1 January 2019.
  • There is no restriction on the number of members in a team or company.

WHAT IS THE JUDGING CRITERIA?

Investability

Teams will be evaluated based on the following:

  • Innovativeness
  • Commercial Feasibility
  • Impact of Idea
  • Capability to Execute

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUBMIT?

Teams will need to register, fill in the online form and submit the following:

  • Executive Summary of not more than 500 words
  • Pitch Deck of no more than 20 slides
  • Optional: A video presentation not more than 5-min

For more information, click here

The "Science and Entrepreneurship Coffee Talk" is a series of talk show held by the Youth Union of CTU in collaboration with Department of Science Research Affairs and Center for Student Consultancy and Startup in order to provide students with necessary information related to scientific research and entrepreneurship. The two talkshows on November 26, 2021 and December 5, 2021 came back in the form of a livestream on the fanpage of the Youth Union - Student Union to adapt to the safety for participants from the COVID-19 pandemic. The programs have attracted a large number of hits, view and shares from students.

Special guests of the talks are invited from experts, researchers, lecturers and alumni of Can Tho university, who have experiences in researching and supervising students to study or get awards in the field of researching and innovating.

Students can follow the fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/CTU.Youth or visit website: https://yu.ctu.edu.vn/ to register for the upcoming talks.

 

Talk 1: " Developing and Implementing Research Ideas from Young Lecturers and Students"

Watch the Talk again at: https://www.facebook.com/CTU.Youth/videos/196696902649028

 

Talk 2: How to do research on Social Sciences and Linguistics fields

Watch the Talk again at: https://www.facebook.com/CTU.Youth/videos/1870901246632394

(Source from: https://yu.ctu.edu.vn/dtn/bct/hoc-tap-nckh/1545-cafe-kh-kn.html)

                                    Delegations of Entrepreneurship Summit 2022

From August 1, 2022 to August 7, 2022, the delegation consisted of 05 officials and 12 students of Can Tho University led by Prof. Tran Ngoc Hai, Vice Rector and Head of the delegation attended the Entrepreneurship Summit 2022 hosted by Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Malaysia. This is the first activity organized by the association of universities with innovation programs for students, including 10 universities: Can Tho University, Tra Vinh University (Vietnam), Universitas Trisakti, Universitas Indonesia, Telkom University (Indonesia), Palawan State University (Philippines), Chea Sim University of Kamchaymear (Cambodia), National University of Laos, University of Mpumalanga (South Africa), Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (Malaysia)), in order to unify cooperation programs and promote research, innovation and entrepreneurship activities in the Association.

                   Prof. Tran Ngoc Hai (CTU) in the Global Webinar on the theme "University Aspiration for Start-ups"

Within the framework of the program, representatives of university leaders discussed the future and development of the Association, the plan for the Association's activities for the third and fourth quarter of 2022 and the plan for 2023, the student exchange activities and international student entrepreneurship and innovation competition in 2023.

                                 Can Tho University Delegations at the Summit

                           Delegations visited MRANTI Technology Hub

Besides, 25 student startup projects from those universities were invited to participate in The ASBX Startup Weekend with in-depth, hands-on training courses on innovation and entrepreneurship by professors and startup founders from Malaysia and the Philippines. 

                                    Students participated in startup training

                                          Students worked with industry mentor before the competition

All projects had joined in the Startup Project Competition in front of a panel of judges from Malaysian and Filipino startups. As a result, The two projects from Can Tho University teams named  “Farm Management System using IoT Techonogy” by a group of students Nguyen Dai Nghia, Do Minh Khoi (Faculty of Technology), Tran Vo Khanh Tram and Nguyen Hong Ngoc Ngan (Faculty of Economics) won The 1st Runner up Prize and "The sanitizer kits for travelers from lotus essentials" by a group of students Tran Le Bao Ngoc and Tieu Kim Phung (Faculty of Economics), Vu Xuan Loc (Faculty of Information and Communication Technology) and Nguyen Thi Mai Huong (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities) won the 2nd Runner-up Prize of the contest.

         Project "Farm Management System using IoT Techonogy" 

                                Project "The sanitizer kits for travelers from lotus essentials"

 

 
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