PARTNERS – Vietnam Living Lab

Government and Global Network
Corporate Investors
CSOs
Startups
Universities

NATEC

National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development (NATEC) which established on June 8th, is an organization under Ministry of Science and Technology; which promotes the formation and the development of the national innovation system by strengthening the relationship among the universities, research institutes and the business sector.

NATEC has joined hand with the Office of Project 844 on helping the national innovative startup ecosystem through 2025, which looks to promote and support excellent startups in joining international forums and bolstering international cooperation.

Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union

Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is the largest social – political organization of Vietnamese youth, which was founded on March 26th, 1931.The union is under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Having been built, trained and matured through revolutionary periods, the Youth Union has gathered a large number of young people to promote the revolutionary heroism, make outstanding contributions to the progress of national liberation, unification, construction and protection of the country.

Entering a new period, the Youth Union continued to promote the precious traditions and good nature of the nation, build a class of young people rich in patriotism, love of socialism, political bravery, will to adhere to laws, revolutionary ethics and a good lifestyle, ambitions to develop the country, knowledge, health, specialized capacity, mastery of modern science and technology.

ASEAN Foundation

Three decades after ASEAN was established, ASEAN leaders recognised that: there remained inadequate shared prosperity, ASEAN awareness and contact among the people of ASEAN. It was of this concern that ASEAN leaders established ASEAN Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia, at ASEAN’s 30th Anniversary Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 15 December 1997.

The ASEAN Foundation is an organisation from and for the people of ASEAN. The Foundation exists because of one vision: to build a cohesive and prosperous ASEAN Community. As an ASEAN body, the Foundation is tasked to support ASEAN mainly in promoting awareness, identity, interaction and development of the people of ASEAN.

Shinhan Future’s Lab

Shinhan Future’s Lab is the most successful Fintech startup support model in Korea.

Shinhan Future’s Lab helps to connect, provides guidance, creates professional working environment, looks for investor and expands business opportunities for potential start – ups.

In 2016, Shinhan Future’s Lab officially operated in Vietnam.

Nguyen Dinh Chieu School

-Nguyen Dinh Chieu is an education institution for the Blind, which was established in 1926.

-NDC provide visually impaired students with access to education in the right time in order promote independence and social inclusion.

-Additionally, NDC has been working as a government run- resources center to support other special schools and inclusive schools in Ho Chi Minh City and other provinces.

Sao Mai center

-Sao Mai Assistive Center is the non – profit organization for the Blind, that was established in 2001.

Mission:

-Empowering the Blind by using and developing of assistive technology in education, employment;

-Solution consultation and providing assistive products for the Blind in education, employment and independent living;

-Vocational, job training and placement for the Blind.

-Website: https://www.saomaicenter.org/en

VIGEF

-Vietnam Innovation of General Education Foundation was established in 2017.

Mission:

-Renovation in teaching – learning methods and student assessment;

-School management innovation;

-Value education and skill development for students;

-STEM/STEAM Education, which caters for the needs of local socio-economic development;

-Replication/ dissemination of locally appropriate teaching and learning models and initiatives.

In Shinhan Square Bridge Project:

VIGEF will cooperate with MSD to implement Tri-path’s tech-solution in 100 schools in rural area for the equity education among Vietnamese students.

-Website: https://vigef.org/

DRD

– Disabilities Research and Capacity Development is a non-profit organization in Ho Chi Minh city, established in 2005.

Activities:

-Remove barriers

-Empower people with disabilities.

In Shinhan Square Bridge Project:

DRD will work with MSD to connect the blind with the technology innovation of LBStech in the second initiative model for convenient access to supermarkets/ stores.

-Website: https://www.drdvietnam.org/en/

REACH

-Research and Career Help is a Career Counseling and Vocational Training Institute for disadvantaged youth in Vietnam.

Activities:

-Career counseling support

-Organize short-term (3.5- 6 months) vocational trainings including free equipment and scholarships from 80% to 100% tuition fee.

-Support young trainees to find decent jobs and follow up their employment for 6 months after courses.

In Shinhan Square Bridge Project:

Reach will work with MSD to implement the “Data Labeling” vocational training courses – the tech solution of AIMMO in the first initiative model.

-Website: https://trung-tam-reach-ha-noi.business.site/

The will to Live Center

-A non-profit, which was found in 2009, based in Hanoi.

Activities:

-WLC provides free computer and life skills training courses to people with disabilities in order to help them find employment and integrated fully in society.

-WLC runs several social initiatives with the goal of ending the discrimination and stigma that people with disabilities face.

-Website: https://www.nghilucsong.net/

Aimmo

-Established in 2016

– Business Model: Automating AI learning data processing with AI

– Technology/Product/Service:

AIMMO Enterprise – Labeling software for free for anyone who needs data labeling

AIMMO GTaaS – Services that provide 100% accurate data processing by outsourcing data labeling

-Local presence in Hanoi, established local corporation in Feb 27, 2020. 2020 Korea-Vietnam Service Fees $416,000 (Employment effect of 400 people including PWD.

-AIMMO has its platform to cover all processes, including education, practice, work assignment, and provides services translated into Vietnamese.

-In this project, Aimmo will provide “Data Labeling” training and also opportunity in hiring.

Website: www.aimmo.co.kr

Platfarm (Mojitok and Zookiz)

-Established in 2014

-Business Model: B2B Emoji Solution

-Technology/Product/ Service:

Providing easily installable B2B products to various mobile services based on chats. Including high-quality emoji contents and profit models.

-Local presence in HCM, local partnership with Zalo, POPs, GAPO, Thien Long, Create and distribute character design, Webtoon, Emoji, Animation contents

-Website: www.mojitok.com

LBSTech

-Established in 2017

-Business Model: Smart city platform for solving mobility problems for the disabled people

-Technology/Product/Service:

Mobile service that provides detailed route information to facilities and destinations around the user based on location information of the visually impaired (users)

A service that provides reservation, order, and payment functions so that the visually impaired (users) can use the store service located in the building in a non-face-to-face manner through their smartphones.

-Currently no local presence. Targeting HCMC District 10 as a pilot city to establish city model.

-In Shinhan Square Bridge Project: LBSTech will provide technology innovations in order to help people with disabilities access easily to supermarkets/ stores and build a smart city which realizes ‘everywhere accessible to everyone.

-Website: www.lbstech.net

Overflow

-Established in 2017

-Business Model: Products/Services for the Visually Impaired

-Technology/Product/Service:

Portable Braille Slate, Versa Slate without Papers

Flowy for PC/Mobile reading expansion and real-time screen sharing services

-Currently no local presence. Implementing a project to improve information accessibility and improve learning effects of children with low vision by implementing smart school projects for students with low vision.

-Website: https://atoverflow.com/

The KEII Platform Vietnam

-Established in 2020

-Student – centered learning and Peer Teaching method.

-Technology/Product/Service: The KEII’s competitive online tutoring platform that matches teachers or colleague students looking for teaching jobs and teaching through community service, and elementary school students needing support for English and Math.

– Local presence in Ho Chi Minh city.

-In Shinhan Square Bridge Project, the KEII will recruit and train colleague students majoring in English and Maths or English/ Maths as a professional tutor. In addition, the KEII will provide an online tutoring platform to educate 40 elementary students targeting at 1st -4th grade.

-Website: https://en.thekeiiplatform.com/

Tripath

-Established in 2011

-Business Model: Vietnamese Public School Management System and Online Tuition Payment Business.

-Technology/ Product/ Service:

[School.vn software and hardware] managing students and teacher data. The hardware checks attendances.

[School.vn App] Students, teachers and parents have their own apps to manage their data and pay to fee.

[School.vn related business] providing online contents and student financial products through school.vn app.

-Local presence in Hanoi. Currently providing services to public schools in several provinces such as: Thai Binh, Hung Yen, Binh Duong, Thua Thien – Hue.

-In Shinhan Square Bridge Project: Tri-path will provide a safe and convenient check-in method to students of 100 schools in rural area that helps teachers and parents easy to recognize the status of each student.

-Website: https://schools.vn/

University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh city.

-The Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture (UAH) was established in 1926.

-The university currently has 5 standardize and modern institutions (03 in Ho Chi Minh city, 01 in Can Tho and 01 in Da Lat).

-The mission of Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture: “commits to ensure the position of a graduate and post-graduate training center as well as a hi-tech hub; to produce high-qualified professionals in accordance with national and regional standards in the fields of architecture, urban – rural planning, civil – industrial engineering, urban infrastructure, industrial arts, and interior design; and to improve the quality of scientific research to meet social needs and economic developments”

-UAH has a vision to become one of the leading universities in regional and international in 2030.

National Economics University (NEU)

– National Economic University (NEU) was founded in 1956, one of the leading universities in Economics, Management and Business Administration in Vietnam.

-NEU keeps positions as:

Top quality economic and business institution in Vietnam; A prestigious center for economic research; A consulting center in economics, business and management.

-The mission: “Being the national key university, the leading university in training economics, management and business administration in Vietnam, NEU’s mission is to provide society with qualified education, research, consultancy and technology-transfer-services attaining regional and international level, and to contribute to national industrialization – urbanization in the context of global economic integration.”

-NEU has a vision “to become a prestigious multi-disciplinary and research-oriented university reaching regional and international quality in the field of economics, management, business administration and other key areas. It endeavors to be ranked in the world’s top 1000 universities in the next decade.”

University of Architecture Hanoi

– The Hanoi University of Architecture is the flagship university in architecture and construction in Vietnam. It was established in 1969 under the administration of Vietnam Ministry of Construction.

– Besides training, the university is also a center for research, consulting and implementing projects for corporates and Vietnamese government. Our mission is to undertake the training of scientific and technical staffs in the field of architecture at undergraduate and postgraduate level, especially in the majors of Architecture, Planning, Construction, Industrial fine arts, Infrastructure and environmental engineering, Urban construction management.

University of Industrial Fine Art

– University of Industrial Fine Arts was established in 1949, is the first school specializing in training staff major in Industrial Fine Arts in Vietnam.

– The mission of University of Industrial Fine Arts: “To be the leading training and scientific-research university in the field of applied fine arts design in the Vietnamese education system; providing human resources – painters with high-qualified undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, meeting the progress of the industrialization and the modernization in Vietnam towards the world integration.

– The vision of University of Industrial Fine Arts: “To become a multidisciplinary training and scientific research university in Fine Arts and Applied Fine Arts in the whole country, on par with other prestigious universities in the same field in the region, with advanced training programs and capable of international cooperation”.

– In this project, University of Industrial Fine Arts will support model 1 on Platfarm solution and the whole project on youth leader community.

Ton Duc Thang University

-Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) is a public university, established on September 24, 1997.

– With 17 faculties, 67 research groups, TDTU has a vision to become an excellent research university in the world’s TOP 200 universities; and with its medium-term goal that “in the next 20 years (since 2017), TDTU is responsible for becoming a research university in the TOP 60 Asian universities as well as in the TOP 500 best universities in the world”.

– In this project, Ton Duc Thang University will support model 1 on Platfarm solution and the whole project on youth leader community.