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On April 18 in Hanoi, the Ministry of Education and Training coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Vietnam Confederation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) to organize The 8th National Start-up Day for students - 2026 (8th SV.STARTUP). This years competition recorded 880 start-up projects of students from all over the world. institutions of higher education, vocational education and general education across the country. Projects spread across 5 fields, including: industry - manufacturing - artificial intelligence (AI) - STEM; agriculture - environment - energy; education - culture - tourism - finance; medical - health - life; and business creating social impact. Download Minister Hoang Minh Son expects students will change the way they position themselves. Learn to master knowledge, identify opportunities and start a business. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Minister of Education and Training Hoang Minh Son said that Resolutions No. 57, 71 of the Politburo, Decision No. 336/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on the Program to support students in starting a business in the early stages 2026-2035, along with Resolution No. 86/NQ-CP on the National Strategy for Creative Startups, has created an important foundation, promoting the process of knowledge creation and innovating educational development models. Emphasizing that promoting startups does not stop at competitions, Minister Hoang Minh Son said that this is a requirement to fundamentally restructure the philosophy of education and training. Accordingly, it is necessary to shift from the mindset of education management and training management to innovation ecosystem management, in which schools become the connecting platform between the State - Schools - Enterprises. The Minister emphasized: Higher education institutions and vocational education institutions must be the central links, the strategic infrastructure where knowledge is created, tested and commercialized right within the system. Along with that, Teachers are not just the transmitters of knowledge. knowledge but must become knowledge economic agents, accompanying and guiding students to turn research results into practical products and services. Expressing his impression of the projects participating in this years competition, the Minister said that the 135 typical projects in the final round show diversity, ranging from green technology, artificial intelligence to solutions for the community. He expects students to change the way they position themselves: not just learning to Get a degree and find a job, but learn to master knowledge, identify opportunities and develop entrepreneurial capacity. Promoting perfection of the startup ecosystem in schools After nearly a decade of development, Vietnams innovative startup ecosystem, especially in the higher education environment, has made clear progress in both scale and quality. According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) in 2025, Vietnam ranks 44/139 countries, second in the group of low-middle income economies. The startup ecosystem currently records about 4,000 innovative businesses, with the emergence of technology unicorns. Vietnam continues to improve its position on the global startup map when ranked 55th according to StartupBlink in 2025, thereby marking three consecutive years of ranking increase. To continue promoting this development momentum, Associate Professor Dr. Bui Huu Toan, Director of the Banking Academy proposed a number of groups of institutional breakthrough solutions to comprehensively upgrade the startup ecosystem in schools. Accordingly, the proposal focuses on establishing a Student Seed Program with a mechanism. co-investment to support the initial phase of startup projects; remove barriers in intellectual property valuation and implement a controlled testing mechanism (sandbox) for spin-off business models - businesses that are separated from universities and research institutes to commercialize scientific research results within a limited testing framework of time and scope of activities. In addition, the proposal also emphasizes the implementation of the Glocal Startup Program to connect the domestic ecosystem with the global value chain; build an inter-university FabLab model in the form of public-private cooperation to optimize research infrastructure; At the same time, develop a digital data platform to serve the valuation and reliability assessment of student startups. Download Tran Nhan Kiet believes that when starting a business, students do not set the goal of immediate success - Photo: VGP/Thu TrangStarting a business is a journey that dares to continue. Tran Nhan Kiet, a student at the Vietnam-UK Institute for Research and Training, University of Da Nang, and CEO & Founder of BINKS JSC, believes that starting a business is never an easy path, but it is the journey that helps young people grow up the fastest. According to Tran Nhan Kiet, starting a business is not just a success story. or failure, but the process of daring to face problems, daring to experiment and daring to stand up after each fall. Sharing about his project, Kiet said that BINKS JSC started from the idea of taking advantage of agricultural waste to create environmentally friendly paint, ink and wall paint, aiming for asafety for users and developing a circular economy. From that journey, Kiet believes that starting a student business does not set the goal of immediate success, but more importantly learns how to see problems and turn ideas into action. Kiet emphasized: Each project can start very small, but if persistent enough, it can become something bigger than we imagine. The important thing is not where you start, but whether you dare to continue or not. The 8th National Entrepreneurship Day for Students - 2026 continues to affirm its important role in promoting innovation in the educational environment, contributing to the formation of a yo
