Vietnam/ Vietnam and Austria strengthen decentralized cooperation
On Friday September 5, the Vietnamese ambassador to Austria, Vu Lê Thai Hoàng, paid a courtesy call on Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Governor of Lower Austria, to promote comprehensive cooperation and examine the possibility of establishing twinning relations between localities in the two countries.
Lower Austria, bordering Vienna, is Austria's largest and second most populous state, with 1.7 million inhabitants. It boasts numerous assets in the fields of tourism, renewable energies, high technology, education and training, healthcare, urban management and intelligent agriculture, not to mention renowned wine production.
The meeting was also attended byDr Heinz Boyer, Chairman of the Board of the IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences, regarded as an exemplary model of educational cooperation between the two countries. The institution collaborates with the University of Hué, the University of Hanoi and the University of Commerce in the fields of nursing, tourism and hospitality. It has already awarded 150 full scholarships, worth 6 million euros, to Vietnamese students, with a guarantee of stable, well-paid employment.
Ambassador Vu Lê Thai Hoàng highlighted Vietnam's socio-economic achievements and its development ambition based on innovation, digital transformation and green growth. He praised cooperation with Lower Austria and IMC Krems, while proposing to strengthen people-to-people exchanges and decentralized cooperation.
Governor Mikl-Leitner congratulated Vietnam on its National Day and expressed her admiration for the achievements of the Renewal. She emphasized the discipline and seriousness of Vietnamese students, which she saw as a pledge of lasting cooperation in the training of a skilled workforce, particularly in nursing.
She also supported the initiative to set up a Vietnam-Austria forum on skilled labor and vocational training, and proposed to study the possibility of twinning with a Vietnamese city or province with similar strengths in terms of training.with similar strengths in sustainable tourism, heritage conservation, intelligent urban management, hotel management training, catering and nursing. Such cooperation, she believes, would pave the way for a concrete, long-term partnership.
Source: /lecourrier.vn/
