S - Star 2024: Shining the intelligence, enthusiasm, creativity and daring spirit of Hanoi Humanities students

The ideas received high appreciation from the Jury, the Youth Union - Student Association of Hanoi National University, the Board of Directors of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Executive Committee of the Youth Union of the University, experts, business representatives and a large number of staff, lecturers and students attending.
With the aim of creating a playground for exchanging about startups, especially "green startups", encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of students in the field of social sciences and humanities, searching for specific and practical ideas, initiatives and solutions among students to incubate potential startup projects, the Youth Union - Student Association of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (directly the Humanities Startup Community Support Club) organizes the S - Star Humanities Startup Idea Competition 2024. In addition, through this competition, the Organizing Committee hopes to promote the core role of the Youth Union - Association in participating in creating effective startup skills among students, promoting connections between universities and businesses, especially small and medium enterprises.
In her opening speech, Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Thi Thu Huong highly appreciated the practical significance of the competition: “This is truly a very useful playground, encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of Humanities students. From the initial ideas, the Club has connected with experts and experienced entrepreneurs in the field of creative startups to support and guide those ideas to develop into complete projects, providing solutions to urgent problems, bringing good values ​​to the community and society.
Since 2019, the content of the training programs at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities has added the subject of Entrepreneurship. Therefore, the successes from the startup projects of the Humanities students themselves are the most vivid examples for the University to include in the content of the training program. On behalf of the School's Board of Directors, Vice Principal Dang Thi Thu Huong acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of all students who submitted their ideas to the contest. They dared to venture into a field that seemed to be not an advantage for students in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities and also achieved very remarkable initial results.
  With the theme of Green Startup, this year’s competition received 18 projects from different units. After 3 months of competition (with 2 rounds), the 7 best teams entered the final round.With a confident style and in-depth knowledge, the project groups presented very basic information about the reasons for choosing the topic, the implementation process, new points, and the value of the project in solving environmental problems, bringing economic, cultural, and social values, and creating jobs for the people.
The startup projects of students of Humanities and some students from other schools in VNU received attention and lively discussions from the judges, lecturers and students. Also at the competition, the project authors received many useful shares and comments from experts on specific solutions, as well as suggestions for some organizations and technology platforms that the project authors can connect with to increase the feasibility of the project.
The contest ended with the sharing of judge Thanh Nga (Director of Vietnamese Language Center, Tri Viet Institute - Vusta, Ministry of Science and Technology), also a former student of Hanoi Humanities: “Congratulations to all 7 groups of authors who made it to the final round for coming up with extremely new and creative ideas in many different fields: tourism, agriculture, marketing, waste treatment, etc. The teams brought many surprises to the Board of Directors and delegates. Because for a long time, when talking about startups, people often think of technology, economics, and finance students. But today, you have shown the image of Hanoi Humanities students who are rich in intelligence, courage, passion, and creativity. And it can be seen that students of Social Sciences and Humanities really have certain advantages in startups, especially projects related to the social field. Because they have a deep knowledge base, are systematically trained, have networking skills, management skills, marketing, presentation skills, etc.
The success of the competition lies not only in the awards given but also in the spirit of daring to commit, daring to think, daring to do and determined to pursue one’s passion to the end. You have spread the entrepreneurial spirit among students in general and Humanities students in particular. I wish all of you to always maintain your passion to continue pursuing your startup ideas and start a successful business in the future, bringing many good values ​​to the community.”
The journey of the S-Star 2024 Humanistic Startup Idea Competition has officially ended. The Organizing Committee has awarded: 01 First Prize, 01 Second Prize, 01 Third Prize, 02 Encouragement Prizes, 01 Promising Prize and 01 We Choice Prize.
See you again in the next seasons of S - Star with new, unique and feasible ideas.
Let's take a look at the impressive performances of Humanities students at the Final round of the "S-Star 2024 Humanities Startup Idea" competition.