Winners of "Vietnam Challenge for Our Environment” announced

Thứ Bảy, 10/11/2018, 11:13
PSNews - After three months of studying and developing plans, six teams in two categories were declared winners of the competition due to the practical and viable products and solutions that they produced to solve pollution problems. 

Recently, the U.S. Embassy announced the winners of the “Vietnam Challenge for Our Environment”. Accordingly, six teams in two categories were declared winners of the competition due to the practical and viable products and solutions that they produced to solve pollution problems. 

Their projects include: A project to produce green containers made from bagasse and lemongrass fabric; A project to produce activated charcoal using fern to produce cosmetic products and air filters for masks; A project to produce green-coal from agricultural wastes to reduce carbon pollution;

A plan to automatically measure water usage by consumers. The information is then sent to a data processing system for the purposes of management, analytics and adjustment, pricing, and billing; A project to produce biogas filter and high-tech biogas electricity generator to be used by farms; A project to produce smart electric scooters with sensors to avoid accidents and other smart features. 

Winners of the competition. 

They received $15,000 to put their first step in realizing their projects. Earlier, the American Center informally incubated these startups with an entrepreneurship bootcamp, workshops and coaching. 

U.S. Department of State’s Regional Public Engagement Officer Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Ms. Fenghua Wang said: “Through this challenge, the U.S. Embassy is showing its commitment to help nurture more viable, sustainable and scalable solutions to address Vietnam’s biggest environmental problems". 

The “Vietnam Challenge for Our Environment” was organized by the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, in partnership with Hatch! and Swiss EP, to create practical solutions for agricultural, industrial, and household waste, and solve plastic, carbon, and chemical pollution problems. By matching researchers with entrepreneurs, this project encourages collaboration between universities, the startup community, and the private sector to create sustainable solutions. 


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