{"id":16693,"date":"2021-08-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/02\/vietnams-global-sci-tech-vinfuture-prize-begins-pre-screening-round\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:00:00","slug":"vietnams-global-sci-tech-vinfuture-prize-begins-pre-screening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/02\/vietnams-global-sci-tech-vinfuture-prize-begins-pre-screening-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s global Sci\u2013Tech Vinfuture Prize begins pre-screening round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HANOI, VIETNAM \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> \u2013 2&#13;<br \/>\nAugust<i> <\/i>2021<b> <i>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/vinfutureprize.org\/\">VinFuture Prize <\/a>&#8211; Vietnam&#8217;s global science \u2013&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology award &#8211; has officially kick-started the Pre-screening Round. Nearly&#13;<br \/>\n600 nominations from all over the world will go through a comprehensive&#13;<br \/>\nevaluation process that will shortlist the most outstanding candidates for the&#13;<br \/>\nFinal Round, slated for September 2021. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/166824\/anh-vft-so-khao.jpg#image-166824\" width=\"500\"\/><br \/><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i> A webinar on nomination process for VinFuture Prize in April 2021 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Before&#13;<br \/>\nthe Pre-screening Round (August 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 31<sup>st<\/sup>), nearly&#13;<br \/>\n600 nominations have undergone compilation and qualification checks conducted&#13;<br \/>\nby VinFuture Prize Secretariat, well-known scientists in natural sciences,&#13;<br \/>\nhealth science, agriculture, earth and environmental sciences, computer&#13;<br \/>\nscience, and engineering \u2013 technology, as well as experts in artificial&#13;<br \/>\nintelligence, renewable energy, biotechnology, new materials, environmental&#13;<br \/>\nconservation, etc. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Compilation&#13;<br \/>\nand qualification checks are an important step aimed at verifying the&#13;<br \/>\neligibility and fulfilment of each nomination, and collecting useful and&#13;<br \/>\ndiverse data for the overall assessments. To ensure scientific integrity,&#13;<br \/>\nfairness, and transparency, all nominations will be assessed following rigorous&#13;<br \/>\nevaluation procedures of highest international standards. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In&#13;<br \/>\nAugust 2021, the Pre-screening Committee of VinFuture Prize, comprised of prestigious&#13;<br \/>\nscientists and experts from leading universities, research institutions, technological&#13;<br \/>\nand industrial organizations worldwide, will evaluate the nominations based on&#13;<br \/>\nthree core criteria, namely scientific and technological advancement,&#13;<br \/>\nmeaningful changes in people&#8217;s lives, and scale of impact and sustainability. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nshortlisted nominations must adhere closely to the United Nation&#8217;s 17 Sustainable&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopmental Goals, as well as VinFuture&#8217;s mission of creating meaningful&#13;<br \/>\nchanges in the everyday lives of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;As&#13;<br \/>\na science and technology prize for humanity, VinFuture puts special emphasis on&#13;<br \/>\nthe nomination assessment and evaluation process. Satisfying the requirement of&#13;<br \/>\ncreating advancements and breakthroughs in science \u2013 technology is&#13;<br \/>\nprerequisite. However, shortlisted nominations must also prove their potential&#13;<br \/>\nto foster positive and large-scale impacts on everyday lives. Nearly 600&#13;<br \/>\nnominations represent nearly 600 different scientific perspectives and&#13;<br \/>\napproaches to solving global challenges. We believe that the Pre-Screening&#13;<br \/>\nCommittee will work with their utmost diligence and highest sense of&#13;<br \/>\nresponsibility to select the most meaningful scientific initiatives for the&#13;<br \/>\nFinal Round&#8221;<\/i>, stated <b>Dr. Le Mai Lan, <\/b>Vingroup&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nVice Chairwoman and Designated Representative of the VinFuture Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Besides&#13;<br \/>\nhonoring exceptional scientists who create breakthrough and impactful scientific&#13;<br \/>\nresearch and inventions, the VinFuture Foundation will also seek additional&#13;<br \/>\nsources of funding and connect scientists to the Vingroup&#8217;s business ecosystem&#13;<br \/>\nas well as investors who share the same vision. The purpose of VinFuture is to&#13;<br \/>\nbridge the gap between research and reality, promote the application of&#13;<br \/>\nscientific research, and bring about a better life for humanity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-02\/88592\/vietnams-global-sci-tech-vinfuture-prize-begins-pre-screening-round\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI, VIETNAM \u2013 Media OutReach \u2013 2&#13; August 2021 \u2013 VinFuture Prize &#8211; Vietnam&#8217;s global science \u2013&#13; technology award &#8211; has officially kick-started the Pre-screening Round. Nearly&#13; 600 nominations from all over the world will go through a comprehensive&#13; evaluation process that will shortlist the most outstanding candidates for the&#13; Final Round, slated for September &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}