On 28th July 2017, National Economics University and VinAcademy LLC jointly organized the ceremony to sign an agreement on education collaboration.
Attending the ceremony, there were Ms. Le Mai Lan - Vice President of Vingroup, Ms. Nguyen Mai Hoa - General Director of VinAcademy LLC, Mr. Nguyen Kien Trung - Vingroup's Talent Fund. From NEU, there were Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat - President, Assoc Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Ha - Chairman of University Council, Assoc Prof. Dr. Pham Hong Chuong - Vice President, Assos Prof. Dr. Hoang Van Cuong - Vice President, Dr. Nguyen Huu Dong - Chairman of Trade Union.
Making speech at the ceremony, Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat warmly welcomed all delegates from Vingroup and highly appreciated cooperation between the two sides. He said that thanks to closed relationship with businesses, university administration model of NEU would be innovated towards practical cooperation associated with research orientation. Professor Tran Tho Dat hoped that NEU-Vingroup cooperation would be boosted in the future.
Ms. Le Mai Lan - Vice President of Vingroup sincerely thanked to NEU Board of Management for its warm reception. She said that the signing ceremony was the result of effective collaboration in the long term, which brought benefits to both Vingroup and NEU students. VinAcademy hoped to have chance to cooperated with NEU - a leading univesrsity in Vietnam with reputation and education quality.
Vingroup and NEU had signed an agreement since 2015, opening a potential cooperative relationship between two sides. According to the agreement, Vingroup guarantees to give 30 billion VND to support NEU schorlarship fund. In 2016, NEU and Vingroup had transferred scholarship worth 530 million VND for the first time.
Following the ceremony, delegates from two sides made a short visit to the Training Centre Building which would be opened in September.