A ceremony to handover the scholarships was held in Da Lat city of Lam Dong province on September3.
The ValletScholarship Fund was established in 2001 by Professor Odon Vallet from France'sSorbonne University through the Meeting Vietnam organisation.
This time, 25 scholarships each worth 17 million VND were given tostudents of the Universities of Da Lat, Nha Trang and Tay Nguyen.
Meanwhile, the remaining scholarships worth 10 million each werepresented to high school students in the Central Highlands provinces of DakLak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, and Lam Dong, and south central Khanh Hoa andNinh Thuan provinces.
In August, 144Vallet scholarships worth 1.4 billion VND (60,200 USD) were also presented tooutstanding students and young researchers in the central province of Nghe An.
Since the beginning of 2018, the fund has presented 3,200 scholarshipsworth 25 billion VND (1.07 million USD) to Vietnamese students.
Over the past 17years, Professor Vallet has spent nearly 230 billion VND (9.89 million USD) onmore than 34,000 scholarships for students and young Vietnamese researchers.
During the 2018-2019academic year, the fund plans to grant 2,250 scholarships worth more than 23billion VND (989,000 USD) to researchers and students with excellent academicperformance nationwide.-VNA