USAID Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology Alliance (BUILD-IT)

BUILD-IT's overall goal is to establish a sustainable, industry government-academic alliance that will invest strategically and collaboratively to create a dynamic innovation ecosystem engaging STEM students, faculty, industry and government.

Through collaborative dialogue, the "BUILD-IT" Alliance will innovate in six areas: institutional policy, student learning platforms, innovation spaces, faculty instructional methods, experiential and applied curricula and gender inclusion.

This suite of BUILD-IT innovations will sustainably increase the ability of current and future students to invent-build-launch solutions and generate value for Vietnam.

The project objectives include: ?Developing and strengthening higher education institutional and program innovation policies, ?Strengthening institutional capacity for high quality, high impact, academic programs and improved learning outcomes attainment, and ?Enabling university-private sector collaborations.