Hanoi National University strives to be a leader in scientific and technological breakthroughs and innovation.

On the 17th and 18th, the Party Committee of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) held its 7th Congress for the 2025-2030 term. Party and State leaders sent congratulatory flower baskets to the congress.

Opening the congress, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of VNU - Prof. Le Quan said that the 7th VNU Party Congress took place at a time when the whole nation was strongly transforming to develop. The congress promoted the spirit of innovation - national responsibility - breakthrough development.

Over the past 5 years, under the close leadership and direction of the Party Committee, the Party Committee Standing Committee, and the efforts of the entire system, VNU has achieved many important achievements, creating a premise for breakthrough development in the coming period.

abc -0 — Prof. Le Quan - Party Secretary, President of VNU delivered the opening speech of the congress.

The first notable achievement in the last term of the Party Committee of VNU is the solidarity, unity, building a democratic and cooperative working environment, creating a foundation for sustainable development, and best promoting the leadership role of Party committees at all levels. The work of building, perfecting and improving the quality of grassroots Party organizations and Party members has been focused on, the results of assessment and classification have become more and more substantial, with the average annual rate of Party cells "Completing tasks well" reaching over 97%; Party members "Completing tasks well" or higher reaching 98%/year. As of June 2025, the entire Party Committee of VNU had 1,156 admitted Party members, of which 674 were students and 20 were pupils, more than double the target of the 6th Congress.

In the context of implementing Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the Central Committee, VNU has organized and reorganized in a streamlined, efficient, effective and efficient manner, reducing from 36 to 25 focal points, achieving high consensus and maintaining solidarity within the entire Party Committee.

The current scale of university training at VNU is more than 60,000 students, exceeding the target by 26.5%. Training programs are flexibly adjusted to meet the requirements of providing high-quality human resources for socio -economic development. In particular, the structure of industries and fields is adjusted towards increasing the number of engineering and technology, health sciences and digital creative arts (reaching 30% of the total training scale). The 2024-2025 school year will reach 40%, from 2026, aiming for 65%.

Every year, VNU trains nearly 10,000 bachelors, thousands of masters and hundreds of doctors; organizes human resource training to serve the research and dissemination of political theory for the Party and State at university and postgraduate levels; makes important contributions to training and fostering the capacity of leaders and managers of departments, ministries, branches, localities and enterprises.

The number of scientific staff continues to increase, out of a total of 5,291 staff, there are 2,878 scientific staff; the proportion of lecturers with doctoral degrees reaches 67.3%; the proportion of lecturers with the title of professor or associate professor reaches 21%. During the 2020-2025 term, the total number of scientific articles published in the ISI/SCOPUS system is 9,751, 2.7 times more than the previous term, the rate of scientific publications in groups Q1 and Q2 reaches 64%, exceeding the target of the 6th Congress by 14%; the number of applications for utility solutions and patents accepted as valid is estimated at 357 records.

VNU's university rankings are constantly improving. According to the QS rankings, VNU is currently ranked 761-770 among the world's best universities, continuously increasing by more than 100 places per year in the past 3 years. In the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which takes into account the 17 sustainable development goals of the United Nations, VNU is ranked 70th in the world in terms of Quality Education; in the QS World University Rankings on Sustainable Development 2025, VNU is ranked 325th in the world, 51st in Asia and number 1 in Vietnam; many important indicators, majors/fields are in the top 500 universities in the world.

According to Professor Le Quan, in the 2025 - 2030 term, VNU identifies 5 groups of consistent development perspectives including:

Firstly, continue to perfect the multi-disciplinary and multi-field model. Consistently implement the building of a strong VNU Party Committee with the motto One VNU; promote decentralization (academics, training management, staff organization, development cooperation, finance, facilities); promote system strength (Brand management; VNU Urban Area in Hoa Lac; Science and Technology Infrastructure and digital transformation); ensure connectivity (human resources, A+B training model). VNU focuses on strategic management, quality control, resource development and promoting innovation indicators.

Second, focus on building a team of excellent lecturers and scientists. Promote policies on using, training, attracting and rewarding talents, create a good working environment to promote creativity; train and develop the next generation of cadres.

Third, strongly internationalize VNU's activities, focusing on internationalization and improving training quality; implementing solutions for fundamental innovation in education and training.

Fourth, focus on building VNU into a center for basic scientific research and innovation; a leading unit in implementing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW.

Fifth, promote digital transformation in all activities of VNU towards digital university.

Speaking at the Congress, Comrade Nguyen Doan Toan - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission of the Hanoi Party Committee, Head of Working Group No. 6 said that the Party Committee highly appreciated the innovative multidisciplinary and multi-field university model with an autonomous mechanism and modern university governance method of VNU, in which the Party Committee of VNU is the core leader, gathering solidarity and promoting the combined strength; impressed with the remarkable development of many important indicators in the fields of science and technology, training, domestic and international cooperation; recognized the role and important contributions of the VNU scientists in research, policy consulting, accompanying ministries, branches and localities in planning development and training, fostering cadres at all levels. The Party Committee commended the pioneering spirit of innovation of VNU through many effective and meaningful policies and pilot programs in the past term; especially appreciate the vision, courage and determination of the entire Party Committee in transforming and successfully building the VNU urban area in Hoa Lac.

The Head of the Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission requested the Party Committee of VNU to pay attention to and focus on implementing a number of key tasks, including continuing to improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee, focusing on Party building in terms of ideology, politics and ethics; promoting the exemplary role of cadres and Party members, especially leaders. Affirming the role of a locomotive for innovation, effectively implementing key tasks in Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, developing VNU into a leading center of science, technology and innovation in the region. Strengthening comprehensive cooperation with the city; accelerating the implementation of construction and effective operation of the knowledge urban area in Hoa Lac, contributing to the formation of a new growth pole in the West of Hanoi...

The Congress elected the 7th Executive Committee of the Party Committee of VNU, term 2025-2030, consisting of 24 comrades. Comrade Le Quan was re-elected as Secretary of the Party Committee of VNU, term 2025-2030.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/giao-duc/dai-hoc-quoc-gia-ha-noi-phan-dau-dan-dau-ve-dot-pha-khoa-hoc-cong-nghe-va-doi-moi-sang-tao-i775213/