Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and German Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier co-chaired the first meeting of the joint committee for economic cooperation between the two countries which took place virtually on January 12.
The Central Innovation Programme for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), also known as ZIM, was introduced to Vietnamese and German firms and organisations at a workshop in Berlin on June 12.
A pilot project of Germany on training Vietnamese nurses has proved effective, as heard a seminar reviewing the project recently held by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin.
Germany decided to expand a Vietnam-Germany orderlies training pilot project, receiving more of Vietnamese workforce to take care of the elderly in the country.
Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep met Rainer Sontowski, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).