France, Vietnam increase science cooperation
The President of the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) Michel Laurent began a three-day working visit to Vietnam on May 22, as part of activities to intensify bilateral scientific cooperation.
Laurent will chair a signing ceremony of a framework agreement on collaborative research activities, mainly the study of Vietnam’s mangrove forests with the Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences.
He will also witness the signing of another cooperation agreement in the fields of science-information technology-communication between the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, the Information Technology under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and La Rochel University of France.
The IRD president is also scheduled to meet leaders of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Science to discuss joint research programmes.