Over 5,800 students and schoolchildren learn about innovation at Tra Vinh University in Vietnam
Vinh Long Province is developing a start-up ecosystem and bringing scientific developments to market
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Tra Vinh University in Vietnam has trained more than 5,800 students and schoolchildren in innovation over nearly two years of implementing the government’s decree on the development of science, technology and digital transformation. This was reported by Vietnam News Agency (VNA), a partner of TV BRICS.
The university’s programmes have reached over 350,000 young people in the Mekong Delta and around 1,200 businesses and households. Support for start-ups in the province has shifted from training to project support – refining the product and bringing it to market.
At Demo Day 2025 – a day for presenting projects to investors – five out of seven projects secured funding. Student projects have won more than 25 awards, both at home and abroad.
A team of students from the university developed a soluble "Bun Nuoc Leo" vermicelli soup using freeze-drying technology. The project took second place in the Mekong Delta start-up competition. The product is on sale and undergoing trial sales.
Nguyen Chi Thien, Deputy Chair of the Provincial People’s Committee, stated that support for start-ups will shift towards the development of business models and bringing products to market. The province’s programmes focus on refining business models, branding, the application of artificial intelligence (AI), market development and access to finance.
By 2026, the province aims to train at least 50 people. Plans include supporting two science and technology enterprises and one expert, maintaining three incubator organisations, and commercialising five products. The province will host the Vinh Long Innovation Entrepreneurship Day 2026.
The Resolution on the Development of Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation has been in force for almost two years. Going forward, the university intends to improve the chain from research to commercialisation, develop research-based start-ups and strengthen "government–university–business" cooperation.
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