In recent years, the wasteful energy usage and depleted resource exploitation have become more and more serious. Therefore, sustainable energy using is a hot topical issue that draws a lot of concerns from functional authorities and the community. Sustainable energy use is one of solutions for sustainable development and contributing to positively respond to the climate changes. Therefore, in August 28th, 2010, Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) in coordination with Ministry of Education and Training, General Department of Environment, Energy Saving Office, Ministry of Industry and Trade, officially launches “Green Idea Contest 2010” with the topic of “Sustainable energy use”. This activity is one part of the Go Green Program. The contest is annually held (since 2009) with the aim at raising public awareness, especially the youth’s in environmental protection and contribution to improving environmental quality in Vietnam.

Throughout the contest, the Organization Board wishes to seek new, practical and highly feasible ideas in economical and effective energy using, recycled and alternative energy using. Besides, with an ambition to create a healthy and practical playground for young environment lovers to contribute their opinions to protecting our surrounding living space, the contest will help to improve knowledge in environmental protection, promote the youth’s creativeness and accordingly to raise public awareness of  environmental protection.

Especially, different from other contests, 3 best ideas of “Green Idea Contest 2010”, comprising: the champion, the second and the third prize will be funded with at most VND 250,000,000 for each to put into practice, contributing to the improvement of the environment quality in Vietnam. Besides the cash award, the winners will be given Certificates and Medals by the Organization Committee.

At the launching ceremony of the contest, Ms Dang Phan Thu Huong- Vice President of TMV said: “ with “Green Idea Contest 2010”, we do hope to find out the most feasible ideas on propagandizing activities and effectively using natural resources and fuel, solutions of economical energy use, and accordingly contributing to limiting depression, recovering and balancing eco-system, coping with  climate changes, which is happening complicatedly in our current life”.

Following the success of “Green Idea Contest 2009”, in the second year, the contest has more new points than in the previous year:

• Regarding the topic of the contest, the Organization Board encourages candidates to put ideas with following topics: Raising the awareness of sustainable energy use through mass communications, developing and popularizing the effective and economical energy use, applying new energy.

• Regarding participants, the range of participants’ age is extended. Accordingly, participants include Vietnamese or foreign individuals and groups studying, working and living in Vietnam aged ranging from 15 to 35 years old.

• Regarding advisory specialists, beside the representatives from the sponsor (TMV) and reputable experts working in fields of researching, teaching or management related to environmental field (on energy and project management), in this contest, there is also a Board of Advisory council including experts specializing in laws, intellectual property in order to evaluate projects if necessary.

• Regarding duration of the contest, the Organization Board will receive contest papers from August 28, 2010 to 5 pm January 28, 2011.( according to postmark). “Green Idea Contest 2010” will include 2 rounds:

             - The first round: Candidates will make entries on paper and the Judgment Board will select out at most 20 best ideas from competitive papers.
             - The second round: Candidates will make entries through in- person presentation and the Judgment Board will select out 03 best ideas.

• Regarding assessment criteria, the contest papers must meet 07 following criteria: creativeness and science basis; reality and feasibility; environmental safety; popularization, maintenance, performance and legal base. The contest papers should be in the form of projects in Vietnamese with clear and plain writing.
  

• Regarding prize structure, “Green Idea Contest 2010” will include 20 prizes with total value of VND 235,000,000, including:
  

          - 17 encouragement prizes, each values at VND 10,000,000.
          - 1 second runner-up values at VND 15,000,000.

          - 1 first runner-up values at VND 20,000,000.
          - 1 champion values at VND 30,000,000.

The detail is in Press Release