The VinFuture 2024 Awards have received an impressive 1,469 registration applications, which is a significant increase of 2.5 times compared to the first year. Applications focused on essential fields such as health, environment, and AI applications. Medicine and healthcare accounted for 36.3% of the applications, while sustainable energy made up 24.6%. Other topics included environment and climate change at 15.2%, AI applications in multi-sectors at 13.8%, and agriculture at 10.1%.
The organizers noted that many nominations were in pioneering new fields such as discovering and designing new drugs using AI, solutions to effectively respond to climate change, and new energy sources or sustainable energy use processes. Some authors proposed building economical smart agricultural systems, researching new materials, equipment, and processes for urgent daily life activities. In its first season, the show had 599 nominations, which increased to 970 in season two and 1,389 in season three.
The VinFuture Award Preliminary Round will take place from June 1 to August 31 with a ten-member preliminary council evaluating nominations based on strict review processes to ensure scientificity, fairness, and transparency. The program aims to improve the quality of life for millions of people while ensuring sustainable development criteria through comprehensive and practical criteria that promote breakthrough scientific and technological initiatives around the world.
GS Martin Andrew Green from the University of New South Wales in Australia presented the VinFuture Main Award at Hanoi University of Science and Technology on December 20th in the year 2023. For season four of the awards program, there are now over nine thousand international scientists who have become official nomination partners from leading universities globally worldwide; this is a significant increase compared to season three’s number of partner scientists.
Some partner scientists are among the top two percent most cited in the world; they bring expertise from various regions including America
