On the morning of March 5, 2019, Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat - NEU President had an exchange, working session and sharing experiences with Prof. Tony Shih Hsun Hsu and Prof. Ching Cheng Chang - Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University, expert on climate change impact, Taiwan disaster risk management.
Attending the meeting, on the side of the National Economics University, there were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dinh Duc Truong - Head of Faculty of Environment and Urban; Mr. Pham Sy Long - Deputy Head of International Cooperation Department; together with officials and lecturers of Faculty of Environment and Urban.
Welcome to the delegation of Taiwanese experts who visited and worked at the University, Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat wished to expand the cooperative relationship with Taiwan National University in exchanging teaching and learning experiences. materials, building student exchange programs, ... and long-term cooperation programs, especially the courses on Economics of Climate Change in the context that National Economics University officially opened this course under the Faculty of Environment and Urban from September 2018. In addition, NEU President highly appreciated the initiative and positiveness of the Faculty of Environment and Urban in connecting experts and organizing lectures to share teaching experiences, study material. In the future, the university will continue to promote teaching and researching on climate change and impacts on the economy. He also hopes that the visit and exchange of experiences of the two professors will be a premise for cooperation and development between the National Economics University and Taiwan National University in the future.
At the meeting, the two sides discussed on the development of a joint research project with the cooperation among researchers, officials and lecturers of the two universities in the field of studying the impact of climate change on post-agriculture - an activity within the framework of the project Enhancing cooperation in research and sharing experience in the field of climate change and disaster risk management’ between National Economics University and other agencies and universities in Taiwan’. The two sides also met and conducted other cooperative activities on teaching, research and student exchange between the two universities in the coming time.
Before that, in the afternoon of March 4, 2019, within the framework of the project ‘Enhancing cooperation in research and sharing experiences in the field of climate change and disaster risk management’ between the National Economics University. people and institutions, universities in Taiwan, the delegation of Taiwan National University a presentation on the topic ‘Global food waste and examples in Southeast Asia’ and ‘Studies on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and solutions in Taiwan’ for staff, lecturers and students from institutes throughout the university.