Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Today Friday, February 25th, 2022, the Final Showcase of the USAID BUILD-IT & Dow Vietnam STEM Program: Engineering Projects in Community Service was held. More than 150 participating STEM students from six engineering and technology universities concluded their five-month program following the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) curriculum model. EPICS is an internationally recognized model of service learning where students not only learn by doing, but also learn by creating prototypes to address social challenges. Teams from Da Nang University of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City won top awards for their innovations of rehabitation gloves, Assamica tea and diagnostic software for breast cancer.
Mr. Ekkasit Lakkananithiphan - President of Dow Vietnam giving encouragement words to students
This is the sixth EPICS program held in Vietnam, and the fifth year of collaboration with the Dow Vietnam STEM Program. Working together, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology (BUILD-IT) Alliance, implemented by Arizona State University, and Dow Vietnam support student-led innovation and service-learning at Vietnamese universities. To date, Dow Vietnam has leveraged over $182,000 to provide more than 900 opportunities for students to gain the confidence and capacity to engineer social innovations. Dow Vietnam provided funding for student projects, faculty support, and industry-based mentoring to motivate students to address the pressing challenges in Vietnam including recent COVID-19. The unique challenges that the students and their communities have been facing during the pandemic have inspired students to develop engineering solutions for real world problems, such as building an information managing system to help the local government effectively collect and manage information of the vaccinated population or offering an automatic robotic solution facilitating goods delivery. In addition, the students also developed solutions to help Vietnam solve environmental issues, sustainability, agricultural productivity and social welfare improvement.
Twenty-seven student teams from six Vietnamese BUILD-IT partner engineering universities showcased their innovative prototypes to judges from government, industry, and academia at the USAID BUILD-IT & Dow Vietnam STEM Program: Engineering Projects in Community Service Final Showcase hosted by the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education. This is a key program within the BUILD-IT Alliance’s mission to integrate project-based learning into top universities’ curricula, and signals the solid commitment of government, industry, and academia to integrate project-based learning into the curriculum at pioneering universities.
Judging the students at the Final Showcase, Mr. Ekkasit Lakkananithiphan, President of Dow Vietnam, said, " Dow’s ambition is to become the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. We are very delighted to support students and university faculties and more than happy to see students realize the current social and environmental issues in the community and develop innovative solutions to address it. With that spirit, we strongly believe that this STEM Program would inspire the younger generation to solve tomorrow’s world challenges."
The partner universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho are contributing to the program and working towards their own integration strategy. The next installment of EPICS aligns with CTU’s first EPICS course, DUT’s 21st Century Skills extracurricular program, and HCMUT’s EPICS model integration to their Introduction to Engineering and Soft Skills courses. The adoption of international engineering programs supports these leading universities in training young engineers who are ready to contribute to their careers, communities and country for decades to come.
Danang University of Science and Technology won 1st Prize
HCM University of Technology won 2nd Prize
Industrial University HCM won 3rd Prize
Ho Chi Minh, January 7th, 2022: In 2021, the ASEAN leading conglomerate SCG and Long Son Petrochemicals Co., Ltd (LSP), a subsidiary of SCG Chemicals, continues to reinforce its commitment to sustainable development in Vietnam by implementing the Waste Rescue project to raise the young generation's awareness about waste segregation. Previously, SCG and LSP have piloted waste segregation at source at Long Son primary schools in Ba Ria-Vung Tau to educate students in waste segregation and call for the response of families and schools so that the concept of waste segregation can be replicated in the community. Continuing the success of the previous year, this project is part of the enterprise’s efforts to tie up with the Vietnamese young generation to adopt a circular economy to solve the problem of mismanaged waste in the country.
• Mondelez Kinh Do ranked at 10th place among companies in Consumer goods (FMCG good and non-food category) and 33rd place among companies in all sectors in the list of “100 Vietnam Best Places To Work”. • Mondelez Kinh Do was remarkably recognized for the first time as “Top 10 Representatives with Happiness at Work 2021”.
• Top 100 sustainable companies in 2021 (based on the Corporate Sustainability Index - CSI) led by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in coordination with Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Recognition Award by Amcham Hanoi (American Chamber of Commerce) in Hanoi for fourth consecutive year and Amcham Vietnam Cares Award • Top 10 Reputable Food Companies for three consecutive years (2019 – 2021) announced by Vietnam Report in collaboration with VietnamNet
HCMC, December 2021 - Tet is always an important and special festival for every Vietnamese. This year's Tet season becomes even more special when it closes a year of many difficulties and fluctuations. Although there are still many worries and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, everyone still tries to have the most possible meaningful Tet holiday with their love ones. This year, Mondelez Kinh Do not only brings world-class quality products to consumers, but also spreads optimism and once again inspire millions of Vietnamese people to celebrate a memorable Tet.
With the vision of "Kitchen of the World", as a leading company in agro-industrial and food business, C.P. Vietnam Corporation (CPV) has been and will be determined to bring high-quality food, nutritious, quality and safety to consumers based on food safety standards, environmentally friendly materials and socially responsible business operation strategies.
On the morning of January 8, 2022, Mr. Montri Suwanposri – President of CPV and the company's board of directors attended the launch ceremony of Foodbank Warehouse and the "Love kitchen" project organized by Vietnam Foodbank in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, 11 January 2022 - Coca-Cola Vietnam and The Ocean Cleanup today announced that the Can Tho river in Can Tho City has been selected as one of 15 river locations around the world as part of a global partnership between the two organizations to use advanced technology to help stem the tide of plastic pollution entering oceans, by first intercepting and cleaning up waste in rivers.
Binh Thuan, 24 December 2021 - AES Vietnam handed over in-kind support as part of its project aiming to promote access to clean water in Son My Commune, Ham Tan District, Binh Thuan Province. The handover ceremony was organized at the village hall of Hamlet 2, Son My Commune, with the participation of Son My People’s Committee, school principals, hamlet leaders and representatives of AES Vietnam.
Hanoi, December 09 2021: In 2021, five subsidiaries of SCG from all 3 core business of SCG (Packaging, Cement-Building materials and Chemicals) including Vina Kraft Paper Co., Ltd, SCG Concrete Roof (Vietnam) Co., Ltd, Buu Long Industry and Investment Joint Stock Company, Song Gianh Cement Joint Stock Company and Binh Minh Plastic Joint Stock Company, have been listed in the Top 100 Sustainable Companies in 2021 based on Programme on Benchmarking and Announcing Sustainable Companies in Vietnam (CSI Programme).
Ho Chi Minh City, December 16th, 2021: The ASEAN leading conglomerate SCG today announces the launch of its 14th annual scholarship SCG Sharing The Dream Scholarship 2021, in Ho Chi Minh city, the journey wraps up with 10 scholarships for university students, aiming to empower nationwide youth to overcome the challenges caused by the pandemic and pursue their education for a brighter future.
