Sharing knowledge and experience between Australia and Vietnam to strengthen our innovation systems
Over the last year, the Aus4Innovation Program has strengthened connections between Australia and Vietnam and delivered real impact.
This flagship program under the Australia-Vietnam Innovation Partnership sets both countries up for future collaboration as we face new challenges and opportunities together.
This showcase of our projects and people demonstrates the impact that the program has achieved over the past two years.
Partnerships
130 partners brought together, 43 partnerships established and enhanced across the program
8 innovation partnership grants awarded with a total funding of AUD 3.6 million
Purpose
6,000 people in Red River Delta and Central Vietnam provided with safe water (arsenic free)
200 radiologists received access to VIETRAD – the first ever cloud-based training platform for better breast cancer detection
Growing Partnerships
Strong partnerships are fundamental to the success of the program. Two of our key initiatives – the Innovation Partnership Grant program and Science Commercialisation Partnerships program are creating opportunities for greater collaboration between businesses, researchers and government agencies. These programs are fostering partnerships through projects in Vietnam and bilaterally with Australia.
Program participants are benefiting through greater access to global knowledge networks, supply chains and markets. Explore their stories in our image gallery.
![Successful technology transfer A university commercialisation model by University of Technology Sydney – the Rapido – has been transferred to leading universities in Vietnam. The project is demonstrated via two tech-transfer sub-projects, including an automated water filtration system in the Red River Delta to filter arsenic in ground water. The technology has been picked up by a local company for commercial-scaled production.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/UTS-water-filtration-scaled.jpg?w=416&h=416&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Real-time monitoring of sea water quality A sub-project of University of Technology Sydney with Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (HCMUT). The two universities adapted water monitoring technology from UTS to a uniquely Vietnamese version. Four monitoring stations were successfully built in Phu Yen province, providing real-time warning on sea water quality, help lobster farmers take prompt actions to protect their investment. The technology is now ready to replicate replication to other provinces, especially in the South Central region.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/UTS-Phu-Yen-scaled.jpg?w=416&h=416&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Real-time flood monitoring and early warning system Using silicon carbide sensor technology transferred from Griffith University, the Saigon High Tech Park Labs is developing a wireless sensor system for flood monitoring. This project will deploy a low-power sensor network in Ho Chi Minh City, where local people’s live is heavily affected by floods, to provide real-time flood monitoring and early warnings via a phone app. The solution is expected to be scaled to other provinces that are experiencing similar urban city challenges.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/MEMS-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![A partnership for the positive impact Every year, the Australian – Vietnam Innovation Partnership meeting takes place, chaired by the Australian Ambassador and Vietnam’s Minister of Science and Technology. During the meeting, achievements of Aus4Innovation program to date are discussed, as well as the plan for next year. So far, 43 partnerships have been established and enhanced, engaging 130 partners from both Australia and Vietnam.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/HOM-vs-MOST-minister-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![GRAFT Launching Press Conference GRAFT Vietnam is a challenge-led acceleration program focused on attracting innovators with the most promising paths to addressing the region’s agribusiness hurdles at scale. This project is the first-of-its-kind with a scale-up and market entry program to empower the agri-tech entrepreneurs of Mekong.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/GRAFT-Launching-Press-Conference-15-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Australian and Vietnamese collaboration improves health outcomes for Vietnamese women VIETRAD is an example of Australian and Vietnamese organisations coming together to innovate. This project improves breast cancer diagnosis on mammograms of radiologists in Vietnam with VIETRAD platforms, powered by machine learning tech, developed and tailored for Vietnamese clinicians based on the success of BREAST program in Australia. By now, 200 technicians and radiologists from 25 hospital across Vietnam have improved their mammogram reading skills thanks to VIETRAD training.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/VIETRAD-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Commercialising a nano fertilizer product Aus4Innovation is supporting researchers in commercialising a nano fertiliser product that helps plants adapt to drought stress. Developed by Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, this fertiliser also releases nutrients slowly and ensure plants use during growth, reduces the use of chemicals that cause soil depletion and pollution. It saves 30% of water and 70% of fertiliser cost.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/Nano-fertiliser.png?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Building accurate and automated shrimp processing technology Aus4Innovation is helping researchers of Can Tho University build accurate, automated shrimp processing technology for Mekong Delta, country’s most important shrimp farming region. An automatic mechanism and electronic sensor system mimic processing by hand would minimize waste, save time and labour.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/shirmp-1.png?w=206&h=206&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Catfish by-products reducing environmental impacts Catfish processing by-products represent 60 to 70 per cent of the fish biomass. The Western Sydney University has worked with the Research Centre for Aquafeed Nutrition and Fishery Post-harvest Technology, and industry partners to introduce a modern technology to improve value-added product from catfish processing by-products, such as fishmeal or oils/proteinaceous fractions. Given the Vietnamese catfish industry in the Mekong Delta region accounts for the production of ~1.42 M tons in recent years, has generated an export income of more than US$1.77 billion, and has employed more than 200,000 rural poor people (predominantly women), the innovative solution is expected to produce economic and environmental impacts.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/Catfish.jpg?w=206&h=206&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Introducing a new potato variety Aus4Innovation is supporting researchers from Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) in introducing an Australia potato variety – Bliss – for chip making in Vietnam. They have successfully produced seedlings from seeds of Bliss, with equivalent level of quality as imported seeds, and a 25 to 30 per cent lower price.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/SCP-potato.png?w=206&h=206&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Developing an environmental monitoring system The AQUAM project develops an environmental monitoring system that includes a suite of mangrove aquaculture health indicators, which will guide sustainable management of mangrove-aquaculture. Mangrove aquaculture systems provide multiple products and ecosystem services such as support of fisheries, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, coastal protection and resilience to climate change.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/AQUAM-scaled.jpg?w=206&h=206&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Maintaining produce quality from farm to market The project builds on established partnerships to show how farmers in Son La province can use innovative CoolBot technology to create low-cost cool chains that deliver certified safe-to-eat vegetables to Hanoi retail markets in peak condition, removing a major roadblock to scaling and increasing farmer income by up to 30 per cent.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/CoolBot-1.jpg?w=206&h=206&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Sea cucumbers - a new potential industry for coastal farmers Australia’s University of Sunshine Coast (USC) and Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 3 (RIA3) are now the proud parents of 20,000 white teat fish sea cucumbers – spawned artificially for the first time using a hormone developed by USC. Sea cucumber is a nutritious delicacy and a valuable commodity on the world market. With this achievement, it is expected that a new potential farming industry is opened up for coastal farmers, and help improve their income.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/Sea-cucumber-2-scaled.jpg?w=206&h=206&crop=1&ssl=1)
Innovation With Purpose
The Aus4Innovation program is delivering innovation with a purpose.
The development outcomes and solutions that have already been delivered through our programs and projects are already bringing about positive changes to peoples’ lives.
We invite you to explore the ways our projects and programs are contributing to peoples’ security, prosperity, and wellbeing.
Creating Possibilities
The Aus4Innovation program is building a lasting partnership that will allow Australia and Vietnam to work together on the industries of the future through programs like our Policy Exchange and Artificial Intelligence initiatives.
As we look to the future, these initiatives will help prepare policy-makers with better strategic tools and data and support a cohesive innovation system that adapts and responds to change. They will also build the capacity in individuals and institutions to effectively commercialise technology.
Read more about the possibilities we’re creating in our gallery.
![Hackathon - tapping into creative AI solutions Sponsored by Aus4Innovation, the RESET 1010 Hackathon offered an opportunity for anyone with a creative AI solution in strategic sectors for Vietnam’s future socioeconomic development. Three winners were awarded a financial prize and the chance to take part in an incubation program by Aus4Innovation to continue implementation of their ideas.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/AI-hackathon.jpg?w=416&h=416&crop=1&ssl=1)
![First trainers in science commercialisation in Vietman The Commercialisation PLUS Guide has been being applied in Aus4Innovation intensive trainings for scientists from several universities and institutes in Vietnam for 18 months. These scientists have now become first trainers on science commercialisation in Vietnam. Till date, 250 people from 21 research institutes and universities have been trained, among which 181 people were trained by the first trainer cohort.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/SCP-trainer-scaled.jpg?w=416&h=416&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Innovation club supports horticulture industry CSIRO has been testing multiple approaches to partnering between research and business. Aus4Innovation launched an innovation club to support horticulture in the north, creating a platform to bring together SMEs, researchers and others together to address unprecedented challenges like climate change and COVID-19.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/Innovation-club-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Understanding AI opportunities in healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a priority of Aus4Innovation in the transition period to second phase. With AI’s numerous possible applications, healthcare with the complexity and rise of data is not an exception. From wellness to diagnostics to operational technologies, AI can have the potential to transform many aspects of patient care.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/AI-in-healthcare-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
![Science for humanitarian purposes - turn flood water into safe drinking water Ninety-five water filtration systems were donated to schools, kindergartens, clinics and poor households in 8 communes of Quang Binh and Quang Tri provinces, who were affected by the historic flood in Central Vietnam in October 2020. This was possible thanks to UTS project’s quick action by re-designing the water filtration systems to turn flood water into safe drinking water.](https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/aus4innovation-showcase-2021/wp-content/uploads/sites/497/2021/05/Humanitarian-flood-water-scaled.jpg?w=276&h=276&crop=1&ssl=1)
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