The Institute of Geological Sciences and Mineral Resources promotes its research strengths to propose tasks.

Speaking at the Conference, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Quy Kien acknowledged and commended the results achieved by the Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources in the past year, and hoped that in 2024, the Institute will achieve many achievements in all activities.

*Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Quy Kien gave a speech at the Conference*

The Deputy Minister requested the Institute to continue to promote its strengths in research, participate in major projects and schemes of the Ministry and the Government on investigation and assessment of the ability to safely store radioactive waste, research caves, preserve geological heritage, global geoparks, as well as its strengths in cooperation with localities and traditional partners, thereby proactively researching and proposing to the Ministry so that the Institute can have more work in the coming time.

The Deputy Minister also hopes that all officers and employees of the Institute will unite, listen, and contribute ideas to the Institute's leaders in an open and constructive spirit, and discuss together to come up with the best solutions to help the Institute develop further.

*Leaders of the Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources chaired the Conference*

Previously, reporting at the Conference, Mr. Quach Duc Tin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, said that in 2023, the Institute had completed many tasks to implement the following projects: Project "Mapping mineral resources and forecasting hidden minerals in the Northeast region of the North at a scale of 1:250,000"; Project: "Investigation and assessment of underground karst characteristics to serve the management and planning of population development in the Northeast region of Vietnam".

The Institute has also carried out a large volume of work for Government projects including: Project "Investigation, assessment and zoning of landslide risk warning in mountainous areas of Vietnam"; Project "Assessment of Vietnam's uranium resource potential"; Project "Conservation of geological heritage, development and management of the network of geoparks in Vietnam"; Project "Investigation and assessment of geothermal and hot mineral water sources in the Northwest region" (under the Project for comprehensive investigation of minerals and completion of the 1:50,000 scale geological map of the Northwest region to serve the planning of sustainable socio-economic development).

*Mr. Trinh Hai Son - Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences and Mineral Resources received instructions from Deputy Minister Tran Quy Kien*

There are also projects: Project "Basic investigation and assessment of position resources, ecological and geological wonders (with special attention to geological heritage and geoparks) in Vietnam's sea and island areas, serving the sustainable development of the marine economy and national security and defense"; Project "Investigation, determination of causes and proposal of solutions to prevent subsidence and landslides of river banks and coasts in the Mekong Delta".

Notably, in 2023, the Institute's international cooperation activities were vibrant, effective and achieved many encouraging results, contributing to enhancing the role and position of the Institute. The Institute continues to maintain partnerships with organizations such as the UK Research and Innovation Fund (UKRI), the Flemish Inter-University Council, Belgium (VLIR-UOS), the Taiwan Soil and Water Conservation Bureau (China), the GIS Research Center of Fengchia University, Taiwan (China), Ufa University of Science and Technology, Russia, the University of Warsaw, Poland, the Polish Geological Institute, etc.

*Mr. Quach Duc Tin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, reported at the Conference.*

In addition, the Institute is having discussions and developing proposals with a number of new partners such as: Central University, Taiwan (China), ATK Japan Company in the field of geothermal, Institute of Paleontology and Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, American Caving Association.

Mr. Tran Binh Trong, Director of the Vietnam Geological Survey, contributed ideas to strengthen coordination between the Department and the Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources in the coming time.

Regarding training and fostering skills and expertise, the Institute always pays attention to and creates all conditions for officers and employees to study and improve their professional qualifications and skills, contributing to best serving the development and innovation of the Institute in particular and the Geology industry in general.

*Representatives of leaders of units under the Ministry spoke at the Conference*

Regarding postgraduate training, the Institute has organized doctoral training activities for graduate students such as: Compiling and completing the application documents for the 2023 doctoral student recruitment according to regulations; organizing meetings of the Doctoral Thesis Review Council for the 2022-2023 doctoral students and the Doctoral Thesis Review Council for the 2021-2024 doctoral students; organizing training for 2 doctoral courses, organizing 1 Doctoral Thesis Scientific Workshop, completing the independent review documents and establishing 1 Institute-level Doctoral Thesis Review Council according to regulations.

According to Deputy Director Quach Duc Tin, in 2024, the Institute will continue to implement scientific and technological tasks, international cooperation projects, and professional transfer tasks from 2023; focus on human resources and intelligence, and closely coordinate with units to complete the tasks.

The Institute continues to closely coordinate with the Vietnam Geological Survey, the Vietnam Minerals Administration and units under the Ministry of Construction to implement professional tasks and enhance research capacity.

The Institute will also cooperate in research with localities, serving key programs of the State, scientific research and scientific and technological development in geology and minerals, providing mineral materials to serve domestic enterprises. At the same time, strengthen cooperation with foreign units, organizations, and universities in ongoing research fields with the goal of improving the quality of science, opening up new research directions in the future, and training scientific staff.

In order for the Institute to effectively carry out the above tasks, representatives of some units under the Ministry suggested that the Institute continue to strengthen training and fostering for officials and civil servants; closely coordinate with units to ensure an open financial mechanism, encourage officials and civil servants to enthusiastically participate in scientific research activities, participate in learning to improve professional qualifications, leadership and management capacity; build a friendly, professional, united and effective working environment...

Receiving the direction of Deputy Minister Tran Quy Kien and the opinions of representatives of the units, Mr. Trinh Hai Son - Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences and Mineral Resources committed that in the coming time, the Institute will gather all staff, unite, promote collective strength to best complete the assigned tasks.

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