About 40 universities of Vietnam and Russia signed 23 framework documents on cooperation in training and scientific research in Moscow, Russia, on September 7, in the framework of the official visit by Vietnamese Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong.
Representatives of Vietnamese and Russian universities sign cooperation documents on September 7 (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)
Moscow (VNA) – About 40 universities of Vietnamand Russia signed 23 framework documents on cooperation in training andscientific research in Moscow, Russia, on September 7, in the framework of theofficial visit by Vietnamese Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong.
The signing ceremony was witnessed by Vietnamese Minister ofEducation and Training Phung Xuan Nha and Russian Deputy Minister of Science andHigher Education Marina Borovskaya.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Marina Borovskaya talkedabout Russia’s national ‘education export’ project, which will create moreopportunities for foreign students, including Vietnamese, to study in Russia.
She said the number of Russian Government scholarships granted to Vietnamese students will increase from 950 this year to 1,000 in2019.
Before the event, Minister Nha held working sessions withofficials from the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and HigherEducation, during which Nha highlighted sound collaboration in education andtraining between the two nations based on traditional ties dating back from theSoviet era. He added that the Soviet Union had helped Vietnam trainedgenerations of experts.
The minister suggested turning the Vietnam-Russiacooperation agreement into reality via a plan for science-technologycooperation for 2019 – 2021.
He stressed that Vietnam is in need of high-quality experts,particularly in technology and economics, while Russia has an advanced educationalenvironment, which can train people meeting such demand.
As the meeting went on, the Vietnamese side suggestedestablishing an annual rectors’ forum starting next year to create strongerlinks between the two countries’ universities in training and research.
Deputy Minister Borovskaya supported the initiative andpledged to work on it in the coming time.
Also on September 7, Minister Nha visited a number ofuniversities in Moscow and met with the rectors of dozens of Russian universitiesto discuss cooperation possibilities between these educational facilities andtheir Vietnamese peers.
The minister presented his ministry’s ‘For the cause ofeducation’ insignia to a number of professors and researchers at the MoscowPower Engineering Institute (MEI) for their contributions to trainingVietnamese students.-VNA
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Representatives of Vietnamese and Russian universities sign cooperation documents on September 7 (Photo: nhandan.com.vn) 
