November 19, 2025
HANOI – The Analysis Research and Education Centre was inaugurated on Tuesday morning on the Vietnam National University (VNU), Hà Nội campus in Hòa Lạc Area, marking a serious milestone in scientific and technological collaboration between Việt Nam and Japan.
The centre is a core element of the venture Development of Easy-Operation High-Tech Analytical Devices and Human Resources for Food Safety and Environmental Quality Control underneath the SATREPS programme.
It is funded by Japan’s non-refundable ODA and collectively supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
The venture is led by the VNU University of Science. Its aim is to develop superior applied sciences for producing speedy and user-friendly analytical tools, whereas strengthening human assets in meals security and environmental high quality administration.
Speaking on the occasion, President of VNU, Associate Professor Hoàng Minh Sơn, mentioned the institution of the centre is just not solely a big milestone within the improvement of the Hòa Lạc Urban Area, but in addition a strong affirmation of VNU’s strategic imaginative and prescient to take the lead in advancing cutting-edge science and expertise, mastering fashionable analytical applied sciences and bettering the standard of high-calibre human assets.
“These are essential foundations that will directly and effectively support the country’s sustainable development goals,” he mentioned.
President of VNU, Associate Professor Hoàng Minh Sơn delivers his speech on the occasion on Tuesday morning in VNU Hòa Lạc campus. PHOTO: VIET NAM NEWS
Professor Lê Thanh Sơn, Principal of the University of Science, mentioned the venture represented not solely a technological funding but in addition a testomony to a sustainable and reliable partnership between Việt Nam and Japan, geared toward bettering meals security and environmental high quality in Việt Nam.
Located within the Hòa Lạc Hi-Tech Park, the centre has been established as a Joint Việt Nam–Japan Research Facility and is taken into account the center of the SATREPS programme.
It brings collectively main scientists and consultants to advance three strategic pillars of analytical engineering applied sciences, human-resource training and knowledge science.
The University of Science pledged to make efficient use of the scientific capability and assets invested, striving to flip the centre right into a mannequin of worldwide cooperation in science and expertise.
On-site evaluation
Việt Nam’s speedy financial progress lately has intensified water and air air pollution due to industrialisation.
Traditionally, analysing pollution required laboratory-based testing, which was pricey, time-consuming and restricted well timed responses.
The venture goals to deal with the problem by fostering collaboration between Vietnamese and Japanese consultants to develop microfluidic and electrochemical detection applied sciences, enabling on-site evaluation of environmental high quality.
The Japan Analytical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association (JAIMA) has additionally dispatched consultants to ship capacity-building training underneath the venture.
At the ceremony, congratulatory remarks have been delivered by Professor Hoàng Minh Sơn, President of VNU; Professor Lê Thanh Sơn and Ito Naoki, Ambassador of the Embassy of Japan in Việt Nam, all of whom expressed excessive expectations for the centre’s contribution to bettering Việt Nam’s environmental high quality.
Professor Nguyễn Văn Nội, the venture supervisor, outlined 4 key duties of the venture, consisting of growing speedy and extremely correct on-site analytical applied sciences; upgrading the primary environmental monitoring stations in a single province earlier than scaling up to 34 provinces; implementing training programmes for officers in environmental administration and meals security; and making use of huge knowledge, IoT and synthetic intelligence in analytical science.
Professor Mawatari Kazuma of Waseda University, Chief Advisor to the venture, mentioned that Japanese companions, together with Waseda University, had already supplied analytical tools able to detecting heavy metals.
In the preliminary part, Japanese and Vietnamese researchers will work collectively to develop new methods and units able to detecting beforehand unmeasurable substances in air and meals.
The venture runs from October 2023 to October 2028. — VNS