Adelaide University: Strong international cooperation is necessary for sustainable development

Welcoming Adelaide University's delegation to VNU at Hoa Lac campus, VNU Vice President Pham Bao Son shared information about its members and affiliated units, VNU’s outstanding scientific research, training and cooperation activities. He expressed his desire to expand cooperation with Adelaide University in training, research, and exchange of staff, lecturers and students in the coming times.

According VNU’s Development Strategy, to develop VNU into a university among the world’s top 500 universities by 2030, it is extremely important to increase science and technology, innovation, international integration indicators, among others. Therefore, in addition to expanding cooperative activities with Adelaide University, VNU leaders wished to learn about Adelaide University’s international strategies on sustainable development, university management, and strategies to enhance university reputation and university ranking, etc.

Mrs. Jessica Gallagher said that Adelaide University highly appreciated VNU’s feasible proposals based on its training and research strengths across many fields such as food, agriculture, health care, medicine, engineering and technology, etc. She believed that, with VNU’s position as a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectorial university, the potential for cooperation between the two sides was enormous. In the coming times, the two universities will develop joint training and research activities in an effort to solve global problems, contributing to sustainable development and common prosperity.

The leaders of the two universities agreed that implementing sustainable development goals requires multi-sectorial and multinational coordination, especially cooperation in training high-quality human resources.