Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy PrimeMinsiter Vu Duc Dam met Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Scienceand Higher Education Jaroslaw Gowin in Hanoi on November 29, with discussionfocusing on bilateral engagements in education and science-technology.

At the meeting, Dam stressed education andscience-technology cooperation between Vietnam and Poland began in 1960, sayingthousands of Vietnamese students and postgraduates have been trained in Poland.

Global integration and scientific-technologicaldevelopment bring about requirements and conditions for the two sides’ collaborationto grow further, he added.

They valued the signing of auniversity-level cooperation agreement pact between the Vietnamese Ministry ofEducation and Training and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The deal included the increase of theirrespective number of scholarships granted to the other side to 20 per year,particularly in the subjects of engineering, mining-geology, agriculture, andfood technology.

Deputy PM Dam said he expects the twoministries to soon negotiate and ink an agreement on qualifications referenceframework to promote learning mobility.

He also mentioned the signing of a letterof intent on setting up a Polish course between Hanoi University and the PolishMinistry of Science and Higher Education.

Both host and guest highlightedcoordination between relevant Vietnamese and Polish agencies in preparation forthe next session of the Vietnam-Poland Joint Committee for Science-TechnologyCooperation next year.-VNA