A ground-breaking ceremony was held on December 20 for the Vietnam-Japan University at the Vietnam National University – Hanoi site in Hoa Lac High-Tech Park to the west of Hanoi.
State President Truong Tan Sang, Special Advisor to the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance Takebe Tsutomu, and Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Fukada Hiroshi attended the ceremony, among others.
The Vietnam-Japan university, whose inception comes from ideas and desires of high-ranking leaders of Vietnam and Japan, will offer courses in Japanese, English and Vietnamese, targeting to run a model that features the close connection between training and research, businesses and university, and public-private ties.
It will see support and direct participation of Japanese scientists, experts, businesspeople in Vietnam.
The university is estimated to cost 365 million USD, including 200 million USD from the Japanese government’s official development assistance (ODA), 100 million USD to be financed by Japanese enterprises and organisations, and 65 million USD contributed by the Vietnamese side.
It plans to start enrolling students for master degree programmes in 2016 even its construction is expected to be fully completed by 2020.
Addressing the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said the university is the symbol of the friendship between Vietnam and Japan.
He held out hope that Hanoi authorities and other Vietnamese and Japanese agencies concerned will work together closely to ensure the project progresses as schedule with secured quality.-VNA
