Vietnamese, German start-ups meet at AsiaBerlin Summit 2021
Berlin (VNA) – An
event connecting Vietnamese and German start-ups for sustainable development took place, both online and offline, within the framework of the
AsiaBerlin Summit 2021 from October 4-10.
The event was co-hosted by the SKARO GmbH
company, the Vietnamese Embassy in Germany, the Digital Transformation Centre
in Vietnam under the International
Cooperation Agency of Germany (GIZ), and the Senate Department for Economics,
Energy and Public Enterprises.
Minister Counsellor at the Vietnamese Embassy
in Germany Dang Chung Thuy described AsiaBerlin Summit 2021 and the event in
particular as an excellent platform to link the two countries’ businesses,
start-ups and investors together.
He hailed Germany as one of the most important
partners of Vietnam in the European Union. Two-way trade doubled in the past
decade, reaching 13.2 billion EUR last year, making Vietnam the largest trade
partner of the European country in ASEAN.
With nearly 450 valid projects in Vietnam,
Germany became one of the three biggest investors in the country during the
period.
Participants at the event shared creative ideas
about technological, energy-efficient and eco-friendly solutions.
The AsiaBerlin initiative
aims to create a start-up ecological system between Asia and Berlin, thus
helping startups in different areas, from Smart City, Urban Tech, GreenTech, to
Climate Tech, Fintech, Social Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence.
It is the fifth time the Vietnamese Embassy has
attended the AsiaBerlin Summit./.