CiC brings the playground to potential startup ideas; At the same time, equipping students with thinking, knowledge, skills and experiences through startup activities throughout the 6-month journey of the competition.

Through the rounds, teams will gain insight into the development process, stages and how a startup idea becomes a business project.

In addition, the contest groups also participate in activities outside the competition, such as seminars and professional training with high practicality.

The competition creates opportunities for connecting and building social relationships with successful entrepreneurs, professionals, investors.

In addition, after the competition, CiC will support potential projects to call for investment capital, as well as participate in incubation and start-up programs of ITP and international partners.

This year's competition is expected to attract more than 200 ideas and start-up projects of 600 students from universities, colleges, intermediate schools, and national and international institutes.

CiC is a contest of Ho Chi Minh City National University and assigned to IEC (belonging to the Ho Chi Minh National University of Technology Software University) in collaboration with the University of Natural Sciences, University of Economics - Law, University international and university to organize, under the support of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology and Ho Chi Minh City National University Startup Support Fund.

To know more about the rules and criteria of the competition, readers can contact IEC (Software Engineering Park of Ho Chi Minh City National University, P.I101, No. 2, Vo Truong Toan Street, Quarter 6 , P. Linh Trung, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City; website: https://iec.itp.vn/; https://cic.itp.vn; page: www.facebook.com/trungtamkhoinghiepDHQGHCM or email: linh.hoang@vnu-itp.edu.vn, Tel: (028) 37244404.