On March 20^th, 2017, at HUST campus, Prof. Hoang Minh Son - President of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Prof. Hiroyoshi Kiku - President of Kanto Gakuin University (KGU) - Japan signed an academic cooperation agreement. This is an important event to promote training high-quality human resources, exchange staff and collaborate in scientific research.

Prof. Hoang Minh Son and Prof. Hiroyoshi Kiku at the signing ceremony

The purpose of this agreement is to develop academic and educational cooperation and to promote mutual understanding between the two universities. Both universities agrees to develop collaborative activities in academic areas of mutual interest, such as exchange of staffs, researchers, students; Implementation of collaborative research projects and promotion of other academic cooperation. 

Participants attending the signing ceremony

Assoc. Prof. Hoang Minh Son affirmed the importance and significance of this signing ceremony and he considered this as an opportunity for both universities to promote intensive cooperation in some common fields of interest. After the signing ceremony, research groups of both sides had a meeting to discuss about Surface Engineering research activity. It is expected that the cooperation agreement would create a Legal framework to promote mutual interest collaboration activities between the two universities.

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Photo: Kim Chi