(VOVworld)-Hanoi hosts a business start-up festival in the city on Saturday. The festival aims to provide consultancy, training, job searching and investment opportunities to young people.

Business start-up festival 2013 opens

The event selected a dozen of outstanding business proposals from more than 300 applicants nationwide for grants. Student Nguyen Thi Thu Hien from the Hanoi University of Foreign Trade is one of the winners: “I am pleased to achieve the target that my group was embracing. I am eager to receive investment support so that our idea could be realized to protect the cultural identity and promote Vietnam’s tourism industry. The business start-up festival has created a favorable environment for students to develop their initiatives.”

The movement has attracted nearly 2,000 applicants over the past 10 years.