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The capital city of Hanoi is entering a new phase of development with the goal of building a capital that is “Cultured – Civilized – Modern.” To realize its long-term vision and objectives for the 2026–2030 period, the City has issued a List of Major Challenges as a strategic orientation tool for development.

Main Objectives of the Program

The program aims to achieve the following strategic goals:

🔹 Promote comprehensive digital transformation: Accelerate the adoption of digital technologies across all sectors, from public administration to socio-economic industries, towards a robust digital economy and digital society.

🔹 Address practical challenges: Focus on urgent issues facing the city in areas such as the economy, infrastructure, environment, social welfare, and culture through innovative solutions.

🔹 Build the “Make in Hanoi” ecosystem: Encourage and support domestic startups and technology enterprises to develop products and services branded in Hanoi with international competitiveness.

🔹 Sustainable development: Move towards Net Zero targets, green economy, and circular economy, while improving the quality of public services and citizen experience.

Key Challenge Groups

The program includes 30 detailed challenges, categorized into 4 main groups reflecting the city’s development priorities:

🔹 Group I: Digital Economy and Smart Governance

This group focuses on applying technology to optimize economic management, promote growth, and build a knowledge-based economy.

Challenges include developing smart economic governance models, data architecture and digital infrastructure for the sharing economy, as well as building a sustainable and self-reliant “Make in Hanoi” ecosystem.

🔹 Group II: Infrastructure, Logistics, and Industry

This group aims to modernize urban infrastructure, optimize supply chains, and develop high-tech industries.

Key areas include smart logistics systems, inter-regional transit hubs, reshaping industrialization towards high-tech and smart manufacturing, and developing high-tech agriculture linked with eco-tourism.

🔹 Group III: Services, Tourism, and Culture

This group focuses on enhancing the experiences of residents and visitors through digital transformation in services, tourism, and culture.

Challenges include digital transformation of heritage and development of cultural industries (Thang Long – Hanoi), smart tourism and technology-driven night-time economy (Metaverse, AR/VR), and positioning Hanoi as an international hub for high-quality finance and services.

🔹 Group IV: Security, Social Welfare, and Sustainable Development

The final group focuses on ensuring security, social welfare, and promoting sustainable development.

Challenges include building “data fortress” systems and smart security, multi-layered social welfare architecture based on big data, developing internationally standardized education and healthcare based on digital technologies, and promoting green economy, circular economy, and responses to population aging.

The City will prioritize resource allocation while encouraging participation from the private sector and society to implement related tasks and projects.

The Department of Science and Technology serves as the focal agency to monitor, update, and guide the implementation of the List, ensuring effectiveness and synchronization.

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To explore the full list of 30 challenges and their specific requirements, please download the complete document HERE.

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Challenge Timeline: Start: March 2026

Document: List of Major Challenges of Hanoi City 2026–2030

Global Shinhan InnoBoost is an Open Innovation program designed to accompany startups and enterprises on their journey to scale up, reach over 5 million customers, and co-develop practical solutions with Shinhan – one of the leading financial groups in Vietnam.

This is not a competition, but a strategic collaboration opportunity with Shinhan Group.

What makes us different?

We openly share over 60 specific collaboration needs, ready to work with businesses to:

  • Provide clear insights into the real-world challenges the Group is facing

  • Co-build, integrate, and implement solutions with an experienced team of experts

  • Unlock opportunities to scale and expand into new business areas

Here’s the profile of partners we are looking to build the Shinhan Ecosystem with:

🔹 Type and maturity level:
Startups, SMEs, or mid-to-large-sized enterprises with products that have reached commercialization, showing clear growth signals with proven customers and revenue. Preference is given to teams with breakthrough MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) and readiness to scale their business models.

🔹 Priority sectors and industries:
We focus on solutions in banking, finance, insurance, securities, and tech-driven industries such as Fintech & Beyond, AI & Data Intelligence, and Tech-Driven Innovation (including SalesTech, MarTech, E-commerce Tech, etc.). We’re especially seeking “golden bee” startups in WealthTech, DigiBank, InsurTech, and Security Tech for deeper collaboration.

🔹 Readiness to collaborate:
We expect startups to propose practical technical solutions or business models that can be integrated and co-developed with Shinhan’s ecosystem companies to unlock new market value, enhance operational efficiency, and improve customer experiences.

🔹 Team and legal requirements:
At least one member of the founding team or executive board must commit to participating throughout the program. The PoC (Proof of Concept) project team must have technical capacity, decision-making authority, and the agility to iterate on the solution. For international startups, having a legal entity in Vietnam and an on-site team during the program period is required.

If your startup or business is looking for a chance to collaborate with a leading financial group to develop, validate, and scale your solution in a real-world environment, then Global Shinhan InnoBoost is your ideal launchpad to accelerate and stand out.

Technology connectivity plays a crucial role in developing a sustainable supply chain network, while also creating positive social impact. By utilizing technological solutions, we can enhance interaction, management, and optimize the entire production and supply process.

For this reason, we are seeking out startups with unique and advanced technological solutions. We believe that collaborating with these startups will provide numerous opportunities for development and together, we can bring about positive change in the supply chain industry.

With the increasing awareness from consumers, the green transformation in the textile industry is becoming an essential direction for businesses participating in the textile supply chain in Vietnam and worldwide.

Faslink takes pride in being a pioneer in the “green” textile industry by developing product lines from coffee waste, lotus leaves, mint leaves, and more.

Facing this challenge, we are seeking partners with technology/solutions to develop products from coffee waste. Together, we aim to create a wider range of products (not limited to the textile industry).

Together with the Government to respond to climate change, Heineken Vietnam aims to achieve zero environmental impact by 2030 with measures to reduce net emissions. To achieve the above goal, in the near future Heineken wants to reduce emissions into the air.

Therefore, Heineken needs to find a partner to provide solutions to predict and measure the amount of CO2 emitted into the environment from Supply Chain activities from supplying and processing raw materials to distributing products to consumers. to control and limit the amount of carbon emissions released into the environment.

Objective:Technological solutions (sensors, measurement systems, …) to measure Real-time Footprint.

Applying teams should select one of the following three themes according to their main area of expertise:
(1) Innovative and Inclusive Economic Growth: Diversified & innovative economy and decent work for all
(2) Sustainable Energy: Green and efficient energy to combat climate change
(3) Sustainable & Inclusive Infrastructure: Safe, accessible, and affordable transportation mediums and settlements for all

Timeline: 

(1) Application Period: February 17th ~ March 28th
(2) Acceleration Program (ONLINE): April ~ Early June
(3) Demo Day + Awards Ceremony: Early June (TBC)

Benefits:

All Selected Teams:

– Business model mentoring & pitch clinics
– Permanent membership with Citypreneurs, right to use official Citypreneurs branding 
– Networking opportunities with finalists
– Travel subsidy for Demo Day (Airline tickets will be provided for teams coming from outside of ROK)
– Mentoring to enhance business impact
– Joint project opportunities with big corporations

Winning Teams:
– Awards from co-hosting organizations, including Ulsan city government, UNIST, WFUNA, Youth Co:Lab (co-led by UNDP and Citi Foundation), and KOMIPO
– Investment review opportunities, and connection with domestic and overseas investors
– Additional pitching opportunities at international forums/Ulsan city-held events
– Support to business scaling up in markets abroad, with connection to Youth Co:Lab (co-led by UNDP and Citi Foundation) Asia Pacific impact network
– Invitation opportunity to International Impact Startup Forum co-organized by UNDP and Citi Foundation
– Opportunity to receive DCAMP’s support on office space and investment review
– Domestic and international promotion support from Youth Co:Lab (co-led by UNDP and Citi Foundation) and Citypreneurs

We’re looking for startups that:

  • Has proven revenues;
  • Has enthusiastic users;
  • Clear intent or track record to integrate human-centred social impact;
  • Has potential for double-digit year-on-year growth over the next 1-5 years;
  • Plans to raise an institutional investment round within the next 12 months.

Successful startups selected for the programme will receive the following:

  • Up to SGD 75,000 in funding
  • Access to 10 weeks of structured program covering sustainable impact, fundraising, and go-to-market
  • Opportunity to raise additional funding from investors during a pitch event
  • Access to Quest Family Benefits and raiSE membership benefits
  • Access to Quest Ventures Founders Group and Sustainable Impact
  • Accelerator Alumni Network

 

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