The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son; Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Social Affairs Nguyen Dac Vinh; representatives of leaders of central and local ministries, departments and branches; experts, scientists, and many domestic and international partners of Phenikaa University.
Training, scientific research and creative freedom go hand in hand
Mr. Pham Thanh Huy, President of Phenikaa University, said: Phenikaa University, formerly Thanh Tay University, is a private university, established in 2007. In 2017, the University became a member of Phenikaa Group and was named Phenikaa University according to Decision No. 1609/QD-TTg dated November 21, 2018 of the Prime Minister .
After more than 6 years of restructuring, construction and development, Phenikaa University has gradually developed into a multidisciplinary, multi-field university, an experiential university, where training environment, scientific research and creative freedom go hand in hand.
Since 2018, the school has developed a Development Strategy to 2025 with a vision to 2038; which clearly defines the vision, mission and strategic goals, along with plans and specific solutions, strategic targets for each stage.
As of the 2024-2025 school year, Phenikaa University is implementing 102 majors and undergraduate, master's and doctoral training programs with a scale of more than 25,000 students, trainees and postgraduates.
The school has completed the quality assessment of educational institutions according to the standards of the Ministry of Education and Training for two cycles in 2020 and 2025. 12 training programs have been assessed according to the quality standards of the Ministry of Education and Training; self-assessment of 20 training programs is being conducted, including 5 training programs according to the US ABET standards and 3 according to the FIBAA standards.
Phenikaa University is the first and only educational institution in Vietnam to be ranked in the world's top 1,000 in the prestigious NATURE INDEX international rankings; currently ranked 941 in the world, 420 in the Asia Pacific region. From 2020 to present, Phenikaa University has always been in the top 3 economic research institutions in Vietnam in the RePEc - Vietnam rankings...
On this occasion, Phenikaa University officially announced its 2030 goals and 2035 vision, with 5 strategic breakthroughs in: university and institutional model; scientific research (the 2030 goal is to successfully develop at least 2 core technologies belonging to national strategic technologies); innovation; internationalization; using and attracting talents for strategic technologies.
Adhere to vision, mission, core values of educational philosophy
Speaking at the event, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shared: "Talents are the vital energy of the nation", "enlightened knowledge makes the nation develop", "innovation and creativity bring the country to develop quickly and sustainably", these are also important elements that make up the identity of Vietnamese culture and education for our country to enter a new era, an era of striving to develop richly, civilizedly and prosperously.
Highly agreeing with the 5 breakthroughs that Phenikaa University has identified, the Prime Minister suggested another breakthrough in building the culture, identity and brand of Phenikaa, based on the core foundation, traditional cultural identity and history of Vietnam.
The Prime Minister emphasized that in order to develop Vietnam's leading university, build identity, culture and brand, students must be the center, Phenikaa University must be the foundation and teachers must be the driving force for development.
The transformation into Phenikaa University is of great significance in affirming the relationship between training - research - innovation and promoting the relationship between research, production, society and market.
In the new era of the country - the era of striving to develop into a rich, civilized and prosperous nation, science and technology, innovation, digital transformation and training of high-quality human resources have a particularly important strategic significance to contribute to achieving the country's two 100-year goals (by 2030, becoming a developing country with modern industry and high average income and by 2045, becoming a developed country with high income).
These are also fundamental factors that play a particularly important and indispensable role in the development of the economy, especially in three aspects: Promoting economic restructuring, changing the growth model towards rapid and sustainable growth; improving labor productivity, total factor productivity (TFP) of the economy; enhancing the competitiveness and integration of the national economy.
Developing science and technology, innovation, digital transformation and training high-quality human resources are consistent policies and top priorities, and are elements in the "four pillars", specified in Party Congress resolutions, resolutions, conclusions and directions of the Central Committee, Politburo, Secretariat, National Assembly, Government and Prime Minister. Agencies are also continuing to develop, complete and submit to the Politburo for promulgation resolutions to create breakthroughs in development of education and training, healthcare and state economy.
The Prime Minister highly appreciated the results that Phenikaa University and Phenikaa Group have achieved in recent times, especially in setting out and shaping breakthrough strategic directions in the next development stage, contributing practically to the implementation of the major policies of the Party and State on the development of science, technology, innovation, digital transformation and training of high-quality human resources in the new era of development of the country.
Emphasizing some outstanding achievements of Phenikaa University, the Prime Minister also basically agreed with the directions, tasks and key solutions proposed by the school.
The Prime Minister suggested that Phenikaa University adhere to its vision, mission, and core values of educational philosophy: "Respect - Creativity - Critical thinking"; valuing time, intelligence, and timely decision-making. Along with that, it should continue to perfect the integrated university model, build a transparent governance system, effective internal control, promote the role of autonomy, and associate it with social accountability.
Promote scientific research activities, innovation and technology transfer in a systematic and professional manner to solve practical problems of enterprises, markets and the economy in line with the development trends of the times.
Expand practical training programs in an interdisciplinary direction, linked to national priority technology sectors; continue to promote the results achieved in research and development of core technologies and strategic technologies (such as advanced semiconductor chip design, autonomous technology, robotics and automation, energy storage technology, biomedical technology serving precision medicine, etc.).
Along with that, promote international cooperation for academic exchange, while increasing participation in global training - research - innovation networks and value chains.
The Prime Minister directed the development and implementation of a mechanism to support students and scientists in starting businesses and commercializing research results, especially supporting poor students.
On this occasion, the Prime Minister also hopes that Phenikaa University and universities in general will pay more attention to education, equipping knowledge about Vietnamese culture, as well as focusing on training basic science subjects in the training process.
For the teachers of Phenikaa University as well as the entire team of teachers, the Prime Minister requested that each teacher motivate and inspire students, be a shining example of cultivating morality - cultivating talent, loving the profession - loving people; constantly practicing, accumulating knowledge and experience, improving professional qualifications; be active, creative, have new approaches in teaching and learning; so that each lesson is truly useful and interesting, so that each school day is truly a happy day.
The Prime Minister hopes that students will promote their role as the center, the subject, the future owners of the country; always nurture the will to rise up, ambitions, dreams, aspirations to contribute, become good citizens, useful to society, contributing to the country.
The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Science and Technology, relevant ministries, branches and localities to speed up the completion of the legal framework in the field of education and training; coordinate in developing policies, programs, support funds and financial institutions strong enough to support universities participating in research and development of core technologies, with special policies for special fields and special subjects; promote connectivity between schools - research institutes - enterprises - society - market on the basis of establishing appropriate financial - intellectual property - benefit sharing mechanisms, harmonious benefits, and shared risks.
At the event, Phenikaa University also received the 2025 education quality accreditation certificate, the Top 8 certification of The Award Asia 2025, and signed a cooperation agreement in training and innovation with Phenikaa-X JSC with Advanced Smart Mobility, Data Impact JSC and West Japan Railway Company.
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