Professor Châu Văn Minh, president of Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). VNA/VNS Photo

Professor Châu Văn Minh, President of Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), speaks to Vietnam News Agency in regards to the academy’s excellent scientific and technological analysis that caught public consideration lately.

The VAST has affirmed the position and contribution of science, know-how and innovation in constructing, defending and growing the nation. Could you inform us extra in regards to the academy’s excellent achievements in 2023?

In 2023, regardless of numerous challenges because of the penalties of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the efforts and excessive willpower of all officers and staff, the academy has achieved main targets.

The VAST continued to carry out properly in scientific works with growing variety of works and improved high quality.

In 2023, VAST’s scientists revealed greater than 2,200 works in prestigious home and international journals, of which practically 80 per cent had been internationally revealed.

Scientists additionally revealed lots of of works in different prestigious journals, conferences and seminars at dwelling and overseas. The high quality of the VAST’s research continued to be maintained at a excessive stage.

The variety of publications in high-quality worldwide journals reached 79 per cent of the overall.

We additionally maintained a global publication fee of 1.9 works per PhD every year, the identical fee as main scientific analysis organisations in developed nations.

The academy continued to take care of steady monitoring methods with lots of of stations and conduct primary investigations.

Monitoring information by way of the station system mixed with investigation information, area surveys on environmental, bodily, chemical, seismic, biodiversity components in Việt Nam’s territory and territorial waters have created an necessary set of background information, serving as a foundation for session, planning and useful resource exploitation.

In 2023, the variety of Intellectual Property Certificates of the Academy grew strongly.

We have been granted 76 invention patents and utility answer patents, together with three worldwide patents, a rise of greater than 40 per cent in comparison with 2022.

The VAST has mastered many superior applied sciences and efficiently utilized them into apply in localities throughout the nation.

The VAST’s scientists are at present mentoring greater than 500 graduate college students in science and know-how. In 2023, 55 doctoral college students efficiently defended their PhD theses and met the criterion that every doctoral scholar has at the very least one prestigious worldwide publication.

In 2023, the VAST actively gave session and engaged in constructing the Party Central Committee’s resolutions, particularly the thirteenth Party Central Committee’s Resolution 45 on persevering with to construct and promote the intellectuals’ position to fulfill the necessities of fast and sustainable nationwide growth within the new interval.

The VAST coordinated with the Ministry of Science and Technology to develop reviews advising the Government and Prime Minister on sudden, rising and new points.

In order to use scientific and technological analysis into apply in fields which can be of particular concern to the general public, what’s going to the VAST do to finish the assigned duties?

The VAST will proceed to attempt to finish duties assigned by the Government and Prime Minister resembling assessing DNA of martyrs’ stays that lack data; earthquake and tsunami warnings for pure catastrophe prevention and management; working Việt Nam’s first and solely earth remark satellite tv for pc, (VNREDSat-1) making certain satellite tv for pc picture sources for socio-economic growth, nationwide defence and safety.

The VAST will prioritise applied sciences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; applied sciences serving inexperienced progress (hydrogen know-how, new vitality) or analysis on uncommon earths and new technology semiconductors to develop the semiconductor trade in Việt Nam.

In 2024, the academy will proceed to develop new analysis orientations, striving to finish duties and initiatives assigned.

To implement the VAST’s growth technique till 2030 and imaginative and prescient in the direction of 2045, what options do the VAST proceed to implement to enhance the standard of primary and utilized analysis in addition to know-how switch and high-quality human useful resource coaching?

Improving high quality in scientific analysis and human useful resource coaching is likely one of the key duties of the academy.

The VAST will develop coaching programs and fostering programmes to draw, utilise and honour science and know-how employees, particularly good scientists with many excellent works.

We will create a beneficial scientific analysis atmosphere to maximise the abilities of scientists in addition to type and develop glorious analysis teams into the nucleus.

The academy will strengthen cooperation with prestigious scientific and technological analysis organisations in developed nations; set up numerous joint laboratories for joint analysis with international superior scientific organisations.

We additionally plan to draw Vietnamese specialists and scientists overseas in addition to international specialists, scientists and technologists to take part in analysis and coaching. — VNS

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