As a research university, VGU always wants to support our students, researcher, staff, and lecturer in their projects. As the fall semester of the academic year 2020-2021 has started, and the new research opportunities are coming, we would like to kick start and motivate the interest among the community with two special events.
Event 1: Introduction and experience sharing: The Research Funding Sources
The first event aim toward the lecturer and researcher of VGU, whose concern the most in their project about the funding and budget. The RF in VGU are many and vary; still, not everyone knows about it. This training course to efficiently and effectively support the VGU faculties: information channels, donors, project management, proposal writing, documentation, best practices, how to manage and allocate the research budget appropriately. These skills are needed for everyone, and we would like to invite you to the event with the following details:
Date: 7 October 2020
Time: 9:00 – 16:00
Venue: B008, VGU Binh Duong Campus
Agenda:
Time | Activities/Content | Presenter/Moderator |
9:00-9:30 | Check-in/Registration | |
9:30-9:40 | Welcome remarks | Prof. Dr. Tomas Benz |
9:40-9:45 | Opening speech | RMD |
9:45-10:30 | European funding programs and experience sharing successful funding applications | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Minh Tan [Hanoi University of Science and Technology] |
10:30-10:45 | Q& A session | RMD |
10:45-11:00 | Tea break | |
11:00-11:30 | Vietnamsese Fundings/Nafosted | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quoc Hung [VGU] |
11:30-11:45 | Q& A session | RMD |
11:45-12:00 | Group photos & Contact networking | RMD |
12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-14:45 | Asian funding programs and experience sharing | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sameh Kantoush [Kyoto University] |
14:45-15:00 | Q & A session | RMD |
15:00-15:15 | Tea break | |
15:15-16:00 | Round table: Hints and Tips for Writing Successfully a Research Grant proposal | All experts & participants |
16:00 | Wrap Up & Close | RMD |
Event 2: VGU Student Research Congress
How to encourage students to do research more? How to pass the torch between different research generations, between the lecturer and students? Can freshman involve in the process of research? The main objectives of this event are to motivate the students’ research interest, especially the freshman, to introduce and disseminate the VGU student research funding and status as well as to build connections among students, research department, and lecturer/researchers.
So, all concerned students of VGU, let join our event to explore your research capacity. Details from it can be found as follow:
Date: 16 October 2020 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 – 12:00 am
Venue: B008, VGU Binh Duong Campus
Agenda:
Time | Activities/Content | Presenter/Moderator |
9:00-9:30 | Check-in/Registration | |
9:30-9:35 | Welcome remarks | Prof. Dr. Tomas Benz |
9:35-9:40 | Quick introduction of RMD’s function | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Van Song |
9:40-9:55 | The first presentation (Robot arm) | Pham Van Thanh Giau |
9:55-10:10 | The second presentation (Honda EMC) | Doan Quang Minh |
10:10-10:25 | Third presentation (Satellite ground station) | Nguyen Van Hoa Vu |
10:25-10:40 | Q & A | |
10:40-10:50 | Tea break and postering session | |
10:50-11:00 | Award students with outstanding achievements in student contests in 2019-2020 | Dr. Ha Thuc Vien |
11:00-11:20 | Introduction of student research regulations and current status | Dr. La Vinh Trung |
11:15-11:45 | Roundtable Discussion Guide – Student Research at VGU: Frequent Q&A | Dr. Trung, Dr. Thanh GPEM, Mr. Thinh, Mr. Nhu, Tri & 01 student |
11:45:12:00 | Wrap up and Closing |
Throughout the years, VGU has proved to be a model research university in the country and the region. Research activities are focused and accounted for at least 50% of the required workload of each lecturer. The University facilitates the academic staff to be able to complete the task in the most favorable way.
From 2013 to 2019, VGU hosted 71 research projects on engineering and economics fields at all levels, including 15 international funding projects, 12 NAFOSTED projects, 17 ministerial-level research projects, 9 provincial research projects, 15 industrial partner collaborative research projects and 03 VGU-level projects. For the last 3 years, our publications on prestigious journals (ISI/Scopus) are at the average of 01 paper/lecturer/year – remarkably increase in 2019 (1.22 papers/lecturer/year).