The Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology Nguyễn Quân received senior leader of Flinders University (South Australia)

In the meeting, Professor Barber introduced Flinders University’s activities in Science and Innovation as well as Australia activities in Science and Innovation Policy. He also expressed his hope in receiving Ministry of Science and Technology’s support, especially Minister’s in developing the cooperation between Flinders University and Vietnamese partners in the future.

During the meeting, the two sides discussed about priority fields in Science and Technology as well as potential collaboration in a joint research, medical sciences, human resources management and developing Science and Technology Policy in Vietnam.

On this occasion, the Vietnamese side – VISTIP proposed Professor Barber, as a member of consultation committee for “the South Australia – South East Asia Engagement Strategy”, to support Vietnam to have a high rank in the list of priority countries that cooperate with South Australia. Currently, the Minister assigned VISTIP to participate in giving comments for consultation program on strengthening the relationship between Vietnam and South Australia. VISTIP also has such a good relationship with some partners in South Australia including the University of South Australia (UniSA). On the November 5th 2013, VISTIP and UniSA signed a MOU to support mutual benefits in fields of high level science research, technology transfer/commercialization and educational capacity development in Vietnam.


Finally, the Minister appreciated Professor Barber’s sharings about Flinders University’s activities in science and innovation as well as his experiences in Science and Innovation Policy. The Minister also suggested that Flinders University, via VISTIP, develop the cooperation with Vietnamese partners and hoped that such cooperation could contribute to develop innovation activities in Vietnam.