National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (centre) witnesses the signing of the MoU between universities of Vietnam and Hungary. (Photo: VNA)Budapest (VNA) –Vietnam and Hungary should promote cooperation to effectively implement education agreements that were signed by the two countries,Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has said.
Thanh made the suggestion at the Vietnam-Hungary Higher Education Cooperation Conference held on June 27 (localtime) in Budapest, as part of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue's official visit to the European country.
Hungary has strengths in training fields such as medicine, electronics, energy, literatureand arts, especially in high-tech agriculture, agro-processing industry, andlaw, Thanh said, adding that Vietnam has high demand for human resources inthis regard for the country's renewal process
He said that in the long term, it is necessary for trainingand research institutions to devise specific solutions to promote strongereducational collaboration between the two countries in the above-mentionedfields, especially the organisation of business trips and exchangeof delegations of universities and research institutes to learn from each other.
Over the past 72 years of cooperationand development, the two countries have achieved outstanding achievements inall fields, including special contributions of education and training cooperationbetween Hungary and Vietnam.
The agreement on educationalcooperation signed in 2013 between the two nations was clear evidence of thecommitments to promote the bilateral partnership, he said.
Currently, there are morethan 600 Vietnamese students studying and working in Hungary, and the lattergrants 200 scholarships to Vietnam each year, Thanh added.
NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue poses for a group photo with participants at the event. (Photo: VNA)Balazs Hanko, Secretary ofState of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Innovation, affirmed that thetwo countries will continue to build effective cooperative relationshipsbetween universities and colleges, thereby further enhancing theirlong-standing traditional friendship.
At the conference,representatives of Vietnamese and Hungarian universities delivered presentationson a number of topics such as digital transformation in higher education, cooperationin medicine and pharmacy between Vietnam and Hungary, digitisation as well aspromoting international collaboration in Hungarian universities.
At the conference, Vietnamese universities andHungarian partners signed nine memoranda of understanding on cooperation inthe fields of training and scientific research./.
