The President of the French
Institute of Research for Development (IRD) Michel Laurent will pay a
working visit to Vietnam from May 22-24, as part of activities to
intensify bilateral scientific cooperation.
On
the occasion, Laurent will chair the signing ceremony of a framework
agreement with the Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Sciences on
collaborative research activities, chiefly the study of Vietnam ’s
mangrove forests.
He will also witness the signing of another agreement
between the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, the Information
Technology under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and La
Rochel university of France on cooperation in the fields of
science-information technology-communication.
The
IRD president is also scheduled to meet leaders of the Vietnam Academy
of Science and Technology, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and
the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Science to discuss joint research
programmes.-VNA