Vietnamese New Year. AGH UST Rector’s wishes

Vietnamese New Year is based on the Chinese calendar and is a movable holiday. This year’s Tết is celebrated on the first day of February. The festivities begin on January 31 and will last until February 5 (these days are public holidays in Vietnam).

 

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History of cooperation

The partnership between the AGH UST and Vietnam began to form in the 1960s, when a large group of Vietnamese people came to study at our university. To date, the AGH UST has educated more than 300 Vietnamese citizens. Among our alumni, there are former and current ministers, rectors, company presidents, and directors of crucial institutions in Vietnamese industry.

Cooperation with Vietnam has been treated as a priority for several years now in the AGH UST internationalisation strategy. The first contacts with Vietnamese institutions were established by AGH UST employees in the 1980s. Subsequently, towards the end of the 1990s, during Professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz’s term of office as AGH UST Rector, our staff has once again revived the contacts with Vietnamese partners: a visit by AGH UST authorities to Vietnam, a visit by the Vietnamese Minister of Science, Technology and Environment at the AGH UST, and, above all, the reopening of our university to Vietnamese students and awarding first bursaries to them. Recently, we have once again seen a dynamic development of Polish-Vietnamese relationships. During the first term of office of Professor Antoni Tajduś as the AGH UST Rector, numerous actions were taken that have been continued and developed to date. The AGH UST-Vietnam cooperation in recent years includes: signing letters of intent about the cooperation with Vietnamese partners, launching the realisation of Erasmus+ programme, awarding bursaries to Vietnamese students, the establishment of an AGH UST Alumni Association in Hanoi, taking the patronage over a Vietnamese-Polish secondary school, and numerous other initiatives. Tadeusz Słomka, another AGH UST Rector, was an initiator of the idea to organise a recurrent POL-VIET conference, organised since 2014 with our main partner in Vietnam, the Hanoi University of Mining and Geology. Another key partner among Vietnamese universities is Binh Duong University, a private higher education institution in the south of Vietnam.