KU Leuven and Vietnam: building the future together
(WorldNews Belgium)

The first cooperation projects with Vietnamese researchers started in the nineties, but the number of partnerships has increased significantly in the last ten years. Vietnam is an interesting partner country for academics; its development-related and multidisciplinary research projects are especially interesting for our scientists, engineers, and bioscience engineers. They are always looking for innovative solutions for both local and global issues. The researchers work on topics that are very close to the Sustainable Development Goals: food safety, climate change, water supply, water treatment and harvest problems. `We want to build capacity and provide better...