On September 4, the French organisation also presented 133 similar scholarships, each worth VND6 million, to outstanding students and pupils in Hanoi and northern provinces.

The Odon Vallet scholarship is named after Prof. Odon Vallet, a doctor of law at the Paris-based Sorbonne University, who has devoted all of his family inheritance to granting scholarships to outstanding students in France and Vietnam.

This is the ninth year Rencontres du Vietnam has presented such scholarships to Vietnamese students.

On the occasion, Prof. Nguyen Van Hieu, former President of the Vietnam Scientific and Technological Institute, announced that the Hanoi Scientific and Technological University will be set up by Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training and France’ Ministry of Education, providing Vietnamese students the opportunity to study at an international-standard school right in their homeland.

French and Vietnamese lecturers will give lessons in six subjects: energy, aeronautics, bio-technology, information technology, environment and nano- technology.