{"id":19620,"date":"2021-12-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/20\/inaugural-vinfuture-prize-award-ceremony-celebrating-4-scientific-innovations-for-humanity\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T02:00:00","slug":"inaugural-vinfuture-prize-award-ceremony-celebrating-4-scientific-innovations-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/20\/inaugural-vinfuture-prize-award-ceremony-celebrating-4-scientific-innovations-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony \u2013 Celebrating 4 Scientific Innovations for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<p>HANOI, VIETNAM &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 20 December 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<b>One year after its launch, the <a href=\"https:\/\/vinfutureprize.org\/\">VinFuture Prize<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\nCouncil has completed the evaluation process and selected 4 groundbreaking&#13;<br \/>\nscientific innovations that have made and will continue to make positive&#13;<br \/>\nimpacts in the everyday lives of millions of people around the world. Prize&#13;<br \/>\nwinners will be announced at the inaugural VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony to be&#13;<br \/>\nheld on January 20, 2022 at the Hanoi Opera House and the VinFuture Sci-tech&#13;<br \/>\nWeek during January 18-21, 2022 in Hanoi.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><img width=\"500\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/208497\/pic-1.jpg#image-208497\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/208497\/pic-1.jpg#image-208497\" width=\"500\"\/><\/noscript><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This&#13;<br \/>\nis an international event to honor outstanding scientific achievements and&#13;<br \/>\npromote innovations for humanity in 2021 with the participation of&#13;<br \/>\nworld-leading scientists, policy makers, leaders of technology corporations,&#13;<br \/>\nand the Prize winners.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\naward ceremony will be held on January 20, 2022 evening to honor the winners of&#13;<br \/>\nthe inaugural VinFuture Prize, including the VinFuture Grand Prize and 03&#13;<br \/>\nSpecial Prizes for female innovators, innovators from the developing countries,&#13;<br \/>\nand innovators with outstanding achievements in emerging fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As&#13;<br \/>\npart of the Award Ceremony event series, VinFuture will organize a sci-tech&#13;<br \/>\nweek for the scientific community, business and start-up leaders in industry&#13;<br \/>\nand technology. The Foundation will also hold dialogues and interactive&#13;<br \/>\nsessions with the Prize Council members and the VinFuture Laureates which will catalyze&#13;<br \/>\nthe intellectual connection between Vietnam&#8217;s scientific and technological community&#13;<br \/>\nand the world as well as bridge academia and industry, thus contributing to the&#13;<br \/>\ntransformation of science and technology innovations into real life applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commenting&#13;<br \/>\non the upcoming events, <b>Professor Sir&#13;<br \/>\nRichard Henry Friend<\/b> \u2013 Chair of the VinFuture Prize Council and a 2010&#13;<br \/>\nLaureate of the Millennium Prize, said: &#8220;<i>Science and technology need to&#13;<br \/>\ndeliver benefits to all peoples and all nations. The VinFuture Prize will&#13;<br \/>\nrecognize those whose brilliant science or engineering achievements can have&#13;<br \/>\npositive impact on the lives of millions of people across the planet.&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"500\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/208504\/pic-2.jpg#image-208504\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/208504\/pic-2.jpg#image-208504\" width=\"500\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nVinFuture Foundation is founded by Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong &#8211; Chairman of Vingroup,&#13;<br \/>\nand his wife &#8211; Mrs. Pham Thu Huong, with the vision of creating meaningful&#13;<br \/>\nchange in the everyday lives of millions of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its inaugural year, VinFuture received 599 quality nominations&#13;<br \/>\nfrom more than 60 countries around the world. Among these, nearly 100 nominations came from the world&#8217;s top 2% most-cited scientists, many of&#13;<br \/>\nwhom are laureates of distinguished awards, such as the Nobel Prize,&#13;<br \/>\nBreakthrough Prize, Tang Prize, Japan Prize, among others. All the nominations&#13;<br \/>\nwere assessed in multiple evaluation and selection rounds by a 12 member- Pre-screening&#13;<br \/>\nCommittee, and then by 11 members of the Prize Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With a large number of quality nominations going through a&#13;<br \/>\nrigorous assessment process conducted by the Prize Council of globally&#13;<br \/>\ninfluential scientists and leaders in academia, research, and innovation, the&#13;<br \/>\n2021 VinFuture Prize is expected to identify breakthrough inventions and innovations&#13;<br \/>\nthat will bring about practical applications and meaningful impacts on the&#13;<br \/>\neveryday lives of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, the in-person presence of great minds of the global&#13;<br \/>\nscience and technology community at the inaugural VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony&#13;<br \/>\nand the VinFuture Sci-tech Week will contribute to positioning Vietnam as a new&#13;<br \/>\ndestination full of potentials and open up opportunities to build direct and&#13;<br \/>\nmulti-dimensional cooperative relationships between scientists and&#13;<br \/>\nentrepreneurs, promoting the commercialization and application of scientific&#13;<br \/>\ninnovations into the real world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Besides the Laureate&#13;<br \/>\nAnnouncement and the Award Ceremony on January 20th, 2022, there will be&#13;<br \/>\nacademic activities taking place from January 18-21, 2022, which include:<\/i><\/b><b><i\/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>-&#13;<br \/>\nConversation with the VinFuture Prize Council members<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>-&#13;<br \/>\nSymposium: Science for Life <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; Scientific Dialogue with the inaugural VinFuture Prize&#13;<br \/>\nLaureates.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>The VinFuture Prize Foundation, introduced on International&#13;<br \/>\nSolidarity Day, December 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2020, is an independent and&#13;<br \/>\nnon-profit organization in Vietnam. The Foundation was established with the&#13;<br \/>\nvision of catalyzing meaningful change in the everyday lives of millions of&#13;<br \/>\npeople by honoring transformational technological innovations at a global&#13;<br \/>\nscale.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Foundation&#8217;s core activity is awarding the&#13;<br \/>\nannual VinFuture Prize for breakthrough scientific and technological&#13;<br \/>\ninnovations that have made or have the potential to create meaningful changes&#13;<br \/>\nin people&#8217;s lives.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In addition, the Foundation will conduct many&#13;<br \/>\nactivities to accomplish its mission, such as funding research projects,&#13;<br \/>\ncollaborating in academic development, and promoting STEMM education.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A total of<\/i><i> four prizes are awarded by the VinFuture Prize&#13;<br \/>\nFoundation every year, consisting of the VinFuture Grand Prize valued at US$3&#13;<br \/>\nmillion &#8211; one of the largest ever annual prizes globally.<\/i><i> <\/i><i>VinFuture also awards 03&#13;<br \/>\nSpecial Prizes, each valued at US$500,000, dedicated to female innovators,&#13;<br \/>\ndeveloping country innovators, and innovators with outstanding achievements in&#13;<br \/>\nemerging fields.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-12-20\/112268\/inaugural-vinfuture-prize-award-ceremony-celebrating-4-scientific-innovations-for-humanity\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI, VIETNAM &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 20 December 2021 &#8211;\u00a0One year after its launch, the VinFuture Prize&#13; Council has completed the evaluation process and selected 4 groundbreaking&#13; scientific innovations that have made and will continue to make positive&#13; impacts in the everyday lives of millions of people around the world. 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