September 29, 2018 | 20:19 (GMT+7)
Vietnamese students win first prize of Francophone startup contest
PANO - A team from the Foreign Trade University won the first prize at the “Start-up Francophone 2018” contest for Asian – Pacific students at its finale in Hanoi on September 28.
The team, with their “Freem” project, which is a website connecting young freelancers with enterprises, was awarded EUR 1,000 (approximately VND 27 million).
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The Vietnamese team receiving their award |
The contest was jointly launched by the University of Hanoi and l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (Francophone University Association, AUF) in Asia-Pacific for under-35 youths, studying or having graduated from AUF member universities in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
The contest aims to create links between universities and socio-economic institutions in the region as well as to honor innovative business projects by French-speaking students.
Translated by Chung Anh