Receiving the new Head of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Representative Office in Vietnam

The collaborative relationship between the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Institute (KAS) spans over 20 years. In all aspects of cooperation, from research activities in international relations, history, journalism to market economics, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities has consistently proven to be a reliable partner of the KAS Institute.

At the reception, Professor Hoang Anh Tuan (Rector of the university) thanked the KAS Institute for its continuous and practical support over the past two decades and affirmed that the cooperation between KAS and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities has certainly made and continues to make a positive contribution to enhancing the capacity of researchers in the field of international relations and many other social sciences.

The leaders of both units affirmed their determination to strengthen the strategic cooperation aimed at enhancing the research capacity of faculty and students at the university. Specifically, in 2022, the cooperation between KAS and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities will focus on the following four activities:

• Organize a seminar:Migration and the Labor Market in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic(scheduled to be held in May 2022);
• Organize a seminar:Multilateralism in international relations in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.(scheduled to be held in October 2022).
• Organize a Student Idea Proposal Contest on the theme: Livelihood Security During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic (Expected to be held from February to May 2022 in Hanoi and Da Nang).
• Organizing phase 2 of the studyThe European Union's approach to the Indian subregionnursery –The Pacific: From Strategy to Practicewith the theme: Perspectives and roles of key actors in the European Union's strategy for the Indo-Pacific region.

(Phase 1 was implemented in 2021 with the theme: The European Union's Indo-Pacific Strategy and Vietnam's Perspective).

At the end of the meeting, Professor Hoang Anh Tuan once again thanked Mr. Florian Constantin Feyerabend and the KAS Institute for their interest and reaffirmed that the KAS Institute is one of the long-term and reliable partners of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities; hoping that the relationship between the two sides will be further strengthened in the future. The leaders of the two units also signed a commitment document to implement programs in 2022.

Leaders of the two units exchanged a document outlining the cooperation programs to be implemented in 2022.