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.