Which researches will be honored at VinFuture 2024?

NDO - On the evening of December 6, the VinFuture Global Science and Technology Awards 2024 will officially take place at the Ho Guom Theater (Hanoi). The program will be broadcast live from 8:10 p.m. on VTV1 - Vietnam Television and will be rebroadcast on many online platforms. The winners of the prestigious awards with a total value of nearly 115 billion VND (equivalent to 4.5 million USD) will be officially announced at the VinFuture Awards 2024.

Artistic imprint in the final night After the echoes of the previous 3 seasons, VinFuture 2024 has attracted a record number of nearly 1,500 research projects, nominated by more than 9,000 partners from more than 80 countries and territories around the world. The number of international scientists becoming nominating partners increased nearly 8 times, the number of nominations increased 2.5 times compared to the first season, demonstrating the stature, spread and international reputation of VinFuture. The 4th VinFuture Awards Ceremony will gather hundreds of the world's most outstanding "brains" in key fields and contribute to shaping the future development of the world, such as materials science, artificial intelligence, medicine, environmental research, etc. Among them are many researchers who are winners of prestigious international awards, such as Nobel, Millennium Technology, Turing, etc. and winners of VinFuture Awards in previous seasons.

Imagine Dragons band.

In addition, VinFuture 2024 also attracts special attention from the public with the presence of leading names in the world and Vietnam in the field of culture and arts. According to information from the Organizing Committee, the "21st century world rock monument" - Imagine Dragons band will bring explosive and meaningful performances with unique and modern music. Meanwhile, Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, violinist Hoang Ho Khanh Van, and the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet will sublimate in performances imbued with the traditional identity and modern beauty of Vietnam. The difference of this year's season is that the program will honor the nominating partners who have made important contributions to the mission of honoring and promoting science to serve humanity. Predicting the field that will prevail With the message "Resilient breakthrough", VinFuture 2024 will honor groundbreaking and far-reaching research and inventions, helping humanity to overcome difficulties and reach new heights. As usual, this year's VinFuture Prize system includes 4 categories. Of which, the main prize is worth more than 76 billion VND, equivalent to 3 million USD, which is one of the largest annual prizes ever globally. Three special prizes, each worth nearly 13 billion VND, equivalent to 500 thousand USD, will be awarded to female scientists, scientists from developing countries and scientists researching new fields. The VinFuture Prize Council includes prestigious scientists and inventors from the world's leading educational institutions, research institutes and technology corporations. Before the award ceremony, scientists predicted the fields that would be honored at this year's award. Among them, "hot" fields that receive special attention from global researchers, such as climate change, energy security, global health, artificial intelligence (AI)... are considered potential candidates.

In addition to honoring breakthrough achievements, the VinFuture Prize is also an opportunity for scientists from many countries to meet and exchange knowledge, perspectives and diverse approaches as well as strengthen global networking. Before the award ceremony, Professor Marina Freitag - Professor of Energy and Researcher of the Royal Society at Newcastle University (UK) predicted that the field of artificial intelligence has many remarkable things. Artificial intelligence will help us develop new materials and new breakthroughs in many energy applications. According to Professor Richard Henry Friend (University of Cambridge, UK); Millennium Technology Prize 2010; Chairman of the VinFuture Prize Council revealed: "With VinFuture, we will search everywhere, everywhere and find something that causes surprise and amazement for everyone". Although the award was established later, after 3 seasons, VinFuture has created a great influence on a global scale. Many VinFuture winners have continued to be honored with other prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize. According to experts, outstanding vision and methodical organization have helped VinFuture gather many famous scientific minds in the world to participate in the Award Council and attract many quality nominations of great value to humanity. Thanks to that, VinFuture has quickly established international prestige and affirmed its position on par with long-standing science and technology awards in the world.

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