VinUni invites 500 global scientists to recruit

VinUni aims to become one of the 100 best universities in the world. The fulcrum of this strategy is the “VinUni 500” program, recruiting 500 elite academics from around the world and a budget of VND9,300 billion.

The above goal is set in VinUni's Phase 2 development acceleration strategy.

VinUni's Phase 2 strategy focuses on two pillars: Developing academic infrastructure - research and upgrading the academic human resources according to international standards, with the orientation of developing 5 strategic research areas including AI and Robotics, Medicine and Health Technology, Smart Cities and Environment, Big Data - High Performance Computing, Policy and Sustainable Development.

Regarding infrastructure development, Vingroup Corporation has committed to investing VND9,300 billion in VinUni in the new phase. Of this, VND1,500 billion will be used to expand the campus, build lecture halls, dormitories, sports areas and modern laboratory systems. The training scale will increase from 1,500 to 5,000 students, with nearly 50% being postgraduate students - the core force for the scientific research ecosystem.

Modern laboratories at VinUni serve teaching and research. Photo: Provided by the school.

In particular, VinUni will form an industrial research and innovation complex - a research center integrating high-tech labs, university-business collaboration spaces and a 1,000-seat international conference hall, regularly gathering more than 600 scientists .

Along with the on-site complex, VinUni will cooperate with prestigious global universities such as Cornell, Pennsylvania, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)... and prestigious universities in Vietnam to develop interdisciplinary research clusters (RISE research clusters), aiming at high-quality academic publications and solving major national challenges.

Regarding the improvement of academic human resources, VinUni launched the “ VinUni 500” program to select 500 elite global scientists and lecturers, especially Vietnamese scientists working abroad. The list of invited candidates includes: 10 international Scientific Directors, 200 lecturers and researchers with prestigious publications, 200 post-doctoral scholars and 100 affiliated lecturers.

To recruit scholars, VinUni will apply a remuneration policy equivalent to that of the world's best universities, with a personal career development fund of up to 150 million VND per year and a seed funding fund of up to 6 billion VND for each outstanding scientist.

Nghiem Hue

Source: https://tienphong.vn/vinuni-moi-tuyen-500-nha-khoa-hoc-toan-cau-post1749626.tpo