GBA Business Challenge for startups in Vietnam

This competition for start-ups in Vietnam will take place for the 3rd time in 2022. It is organized by the German Business Association (GBA) and runs until the winners are announced in December 2022. For the first time, this year’s competition does not generally ask for new and interesting ideas for young companies. The focus is clearly on goals that take the environment, sustainability and/or social issues into account. The call for entries states: The GBA Business Challenge 2022 calls for ideas targeting either/or Environmental, Sustainable, Social questions and solutions. It will be interesting to see how many participants can be found under these specifications. In any case, there is a lot to be done in these fields.
Another first is that our school is actively involved in the preparatory committee for this competition. The IGS has been a member of the GBA for many years, so it was only natural that our head of school followed the call for cooperation. Even if our school itself does not provide any participating start-up ideas, the topic of entrepreneurship, in the sense of teaching students to be independent and self-reliant, is playing an increasingly important role at international schools. We expect our participation in the Business Challenge of the GBA and the information about it to have a positive impact on school life and school culture.
In this sense, the project days for natural sciences that have been successfully carried out this week, have made an important contribution to the fostering of scientific curiosity and awakening the spirit of research and independence.