At the reception, Dung famous that the improve of bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the course of the January 2026 go to to Vietnam by the President of the European Council has opened up new alternatives for cooperation, notably in science, technology and innovation.
The Deputy PM spoke extremely of preparations for the signing of a Letter of Intent between the EU and Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology on strengthening cooperation in science, technology and innovation, describing it as an vital step towards realizing bilateral commitments and selling stronger hyperlinks between Vietnam’s analysis neighborhood, companies and innovation ecosystem and main EU cooperation programmes.
Highlighting achievements in Vietnam-EU relations after greater than 35 years of diplomatic ties, Dung stated the EU is at present Vietnam’s fourth-largest buying and selling accomplice and fifth-largest overseas investor, whereas Vietnam is the EU’s largest buying and selling accomplice in ASEAN.
The two sides, he stated, have maintained efficient dialogue mechanisms, delegation exchanges and high-level contacts, serving to consolidate political belief and increase substantive cooperation in a mess of areas.
Vietnam and the EU have robust complementary potential for improvement cooperation, notably as Vietnam continues to emerge as one of many area’s and the world’s most dynamic economies with a younger and expert workforce and a rising innovation ecosystem, Dung instructed his visitor.
Vietnam, he added, extremely values the EU’s function and place as one of many world’s main centres for science, technology and innovation, notably in areas similar to digital transformation, synthetic intelligence, inexperienced and round economies, renewable power and sustainable improvement.
For her half, Ekaterina Zaharieva highlighted the cooperation potential between the 2 sides in analysis and innovation, noting that the EU is among the many world’s main buyers in analysis and improvement by way of large-scale programmes supporting science, technology and innovation.
The EU is implementing cooperation programmes and plans to additional improve funding in the sector in the approaching interval, she went on.
According to Zaharieva, the signing of the Letter of Intent with Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology will assist Vietnamese analysis establishments, universities and companies take part extra extensively in Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship analysis and innovation programme.
She expressed confidence that the rising presence of European companies in Vietnam will contribute to technology switch, infrastructure improvement and stronger innovation capability in Vietnam.
