The 28th edition of HCM City’s technical innovation competition has opened and is accepting entries until the end of 2024. — Photo cesti.gov.vn

HCM CITY — The 28th edition of HCM City’s technical innovation competition has opened and will accept entries until the end of the year.

The HCM City Union of Science and Technology Associations, the city Department of Science and Technology and the city unit of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union run the competition.

Lê Thanh Minh, deputy director of the department, said the annual competition seeks innovative solutions in the fields of science, technology and engineering that would contribute to the city’s socio-economic development.

“It aims to promote the creative spirit of researchers, experts, officials, civil servants, and workers.”

The competition has six categories: healthcare; education and career guidance; information technology, electronics and telecommunications; mechanical engineering and automation, and transportation; biotechnology, agriculture and food technology; and materials technology, environmental technology, chemicals, and energy.

Innovations that benefit production, daily life, the economy, society, security, and defence can participate in the competition.

Vietnamese individuals and organisations at home and abroad and expats in Việt Nam can send in entries.

But inventions and solutions that have won prizes in the National Technical Innovation Awards, Việt Nam Science and Technology Innovation Awards and the City Creative Awards are not allowed to participate.

Contestants can send in their entries to the Youth Scientific and Technological Promotion Centre at 1 Phạm Ngọc Thạch Street, District 1 or the Department of Science and Technology at 244 on Điện Biên Phủ Street, District 3.

Last year, the competition received 145 entries and awarded 33 outstanding solutions and topics that can be applied in practice. — VNS