Blue Dragon Scale-up Accelerator

This work package focuses on testing and foremost scaling-up of new ideas and innovative solutions. 

To implement, Blue Dragon Challenge, a competition, will be organized every 02 years to bring out new ideas and innovative solutions for a specific water management issue. 

The following criteria form the basis for every challenge:

• The Challenge targets a specific issue addressed by a Blue Dragon Pool.
• Every entry requires a partnership between at least 1 Vietnamese and 1 Dutch partner. Combinations of one or more companies and/or knowledge institutes and/or civil society organizations or NGOs is a pre.
• The ideas and solutions to be developed are transferable to other areas in Mekong Delta. Identifying opportunities, conditions, and requirements for upscaling are part of the entry.
• A Challenge commission will identify selection criteria and later on will select the winning entrie(s).
• Depending on the specific Challenge, the most promising entries will receive a budget to further develop the idea with a business case for an actual, experiment, test, or pilot and a plan to monitor implementation.
• The winning entry will be announced during Blue Dragon Day and receive a price. Part of the price is the actual implementation of the experiment, test, or pilot.