In the recent years, the Vietnamese public authorities raised the need to provide information on labour market in combination with the actual human resources produced by the universities, as a priority for the governance of the higher education in Vietnam. In this framework, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam (MOET) has started to consider the tracer study of universities/ and colleges as a core priority for developing the higher education sector in the country. Since 2017 tertiary education institutions are asked to provide MOET with information on the employment condition of their graduates, yet the existent graduates tracking studies suffer inconsistency of contents and scatter methodology. The MOTIVE project, supported and inspired by MOET, aims at ensuring that the Vietnamese HE system address the challenging of reform policy implementation on graduates tracking by monitoring their transition towards the labour market as well as their employment situation, through the set-up of the first National Center for Graduate Tracking in Vietnam. Thanks to the set-up of the Center, the first graduates employment situation survey of the Vietnamese Graduates, developed on a unique methodology and tools, will be run, supported by the network of stakeholders to be set up during the Project. Capacity building activities, namely trainings and workshop addressed to Vietnamese universities staff, on how to manage and exploit graduates data for survey release and on how to support the policy reform of HE system, stays as a pillar of the initiative. The impact envisaged is to modernize the Higher Education sector by promoting an informative based approach to policy reform. The sustainable tools and methodologies develop within the initiative will help to evaluate, monitor and compare the success of higher education graduates, measure the effects of policies and assess the attainment of benchmarks and goals.

"The project focuses on the modernization and development of curricula for the qualification students in transdisciplinary education system in the network with companies, research institutions and stakeholders of the region. The project strengthens European co-operation in transdisciplinary education and internationalization, which has been rather limited due to the strong scientific traditions in HE-education systems. This makes it possible to transfer knowledge about the transdisciplinary model to higher education and therefor enable the future generation of scientists and employees in enterprises to draw on synergies from different scientific directions. This seems necessary since environmental problems are rather complex and therefore need even more complex answers. Empirical studies on the needs analysis in the labor market are conducted in the participating PCs and competency catalogs are compiled. On the basis of the catalogs, curricula for the BA level are modernized by the development of modular thematic clusters, the curriculum for the transdisciplinary MA course ""Environmental Management of Fishery Enterprises"" is developed, modularized distance learning courses for continuing education of employees in the fishery sector are developed and the MA course is adapted for online-teaching. A centre of excellence for transdisciplinary env. education and vocational guidance (with eLabs as an innovative element) will be set up at PU for the highly debt-oriented design of the curriculum, training courses for university staff, professional orientation and networking in the local education landscape. Through measures for dissemination and sustainability, the model character of the transdisciplinaryl education in fisheries is supported and the transfer of the project results is ensured nationwide and internationally. The evaluation of the curricula of internal and external experts contributes to effective quality control."

ENHANCE is a structural project that will operate at a macro level targeting the Vietnamese HE system (R&I management and implementation). Thanks to a complementary consortium involving 6 of the most relevant VIET HEIs with geographical balance, 3 EU HEIs with huge experience in R&I and international cooperation and the participation of MOET and MOST (HE and S&T authorities). The project is in line with national priorities that give a predominant role to R&I in the mid/long term and its activities have been designed as a response to Vietnam real needs.ENHANCE will strengthen capacities by promoting effective R&I management and implementation via:•Building human capacities in R&I Management and Implementation (targeted training programme with relevant topics selected on the basis of the in-depth SWOT analysis of the national R&I system)•Strengthening institutional capacity and enhancing national networking with the creation of a Network of Research and Innovation Offices in Vietnam that will be a national level reference for R&I in service of the academic/research community & HEI management, as well as for continuous dialogue with HE and S&T authorities.Capacity Building will be multimodal with a tailor made approach for the different targets (R&I Units, academic/researchers & HE authorities). R&I Units will be in charge of their replication for generating impact and benefit at national level. Networking events will be organised to bring together HE & authorities to foster mutual dialogue and the improvement of R&I at policy level. This will be possible thanks to the drafting of the ENHANCE White paper with recommendation for VIET R&I improvement. Dissemination of the action will be multimodal and intensive for increasing exploitation and long term impact. Excellence of the main outputs will be ensured by a well defined internal Quality Monitoring & the contribution of 2 top level external QA experts who will provide recommendations on most relevantoutputs.

V2WORK aimed to strengthen the capacities of the Vietnamese HE System to improve the employability & entrepreneurship skills of its graduates, and reinforce its relationship with the labour market, in line with the Vietnamese government’s priority of improving graduate employment & supporting youth entrepreneurship.After 3.5 years, the project has achieved its objectives of * Modernising career support services of 8 Vietnamese HEIs by building institutional & human capacities in employability & entrepreneurship skills so they can better support their students & graduates* Reinforcing university-enterprise relationships by fostering active involvement of enterprises in the Career CentresV2WORK’s highly dedicated consortium assembled all the key players: Higher Education Institutions (of varied geographical origin and background), students & graduates, employers, and policy makers. Together they achieved:* Benchmarking & analysis reports (following a national survey with >4000 responses) of Vietnamese HEIs’ capacities to support students’ & graduates’ employability & entrepreneurship efforts, while gaining an in-depth understanding of five main aspects of the Vietnamese labour market* This allowed to tailor trainings to specific needs of Career Centre staff and identify areas for institutional strengthening. 5 ToT workshops & 38 replication seminars (+ visits to EU partners), significantly increased partners’ human capacities (>1000 trainees) and allowed them to create and/or redefine their career services & launch new activities* In the project’s “proof of concept” phase partners organized new “Careers Days”, created 17 online courses (an innovation for many of them) and launched new services to support their students in improving their employment, employability & entrepreneurship skills, including enterprising ideas competitions, with winners from each university participating in the national competition “Be Green!”* “Be Green!” took place during the National Conference on Graduate Employment & Entrepreneurship, itself the culmination of eight Employment & Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Forum in 8 different provinces. These 9 networking events brought together universities, labour market & policy makers, with discussions resulting in useful recommendations for the Vietnamese HE system which were gathered in a White Paper presented to MOET for consideration for their next 5-year strategy for employment & entrepreneurship support by universities* Finally, for continued collaboration and extending the impact to other universities, VEES-Net was created, the Vietnam Employability & Entrepreneurship Support Network. It was formally launched in a public event in Hanoi (Oct. 2020), and held its first Annual Meeting in Nha Trang in March 2021, together with the V2WORK final conference. All these events were live streamed on the Facebook page @veesnetV2WORK’s main results, including a model for career centres in Vietnamese universities, information on partner career centres, good practices developed and policy recommendations, were published in a report “Fostering Student and Graduate Employability & Entrepreneurship in Vietnamese Universities”, presented at the Final Conference and available – with all V2WORK publications – on the project website www.v2work.eu. V2WORK has significantly raised the visibility of university-level support for employment & entrepreneurship in Vietnam and leaves behind 8 strong Career Centres with new services for their students & graduates and a closer relationship with the labour market, as well as a solid national network to support partners’ further development and other HEI career centres in Vietnam. MOET’s support of VEES-Net, and members’ dedication, will ensure its impact & sustainability.

The irruption of Human Resource Management (HRM) as a strategic element for quality development of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is relatively recent. Few decades back and until our days, HR approaches just focused on staff recruitment, employment contracts and payment of salaries. This scenario is deeply changing with the international growth and increasing complexity of Higher Education. HRM aspects such as staff motivation, continuous development, evaluation, and strategic planning are gathering momentum under HEIs’ strategic plans worldwide.The evolution of HRM is, however, slow and certainly challenging in developing countries. In Southeast Asia, HEIs are facing significant difficulties derived from disparities in their countries’ political and social structures as well as the backgrounds of their Higher Education systems. Well-structured HRM strategies could very much contribute to HE development and HEIs’ autonomy, thus supporting the processes of reform towards regional growth. Against this background, HR4Asia aims at contributing to Higher Education organisational reform in Southeast Asia by improving HRM at the target HEIs from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and Thailand.This global objective will be pursued by means of three specific objectives, namely: • Building capacity in HRM at Southeast Asian HEIs to enhance organizational performance;• Improving HRM Strategic plans for more staffing autonomy; • Setting up of the ASEAN University HR Network as a regional forum for the exchange of knowledge and best practices.With these, HR4Asia will introduce in Southeast Asian HEIs a scheme to developing and implementing innovative HRM approaches, paying attention to transversal and additional skills, such as communication and self-learning, as well. Tailor-made dissemination activities addressing non-partner HEIs, Ministries of Higher Education and other stakeholders will promote the project objectives, paving the way for its sustainability .