Vietnam and France on September 16 agreed to cooperate in
establishing an international alliance laboratory - a France-Vietnam
Particle Physics Laboratory.
The agreement was
the outcome of a working visit to France by a delegation of the
Ministry of Science and Technology led by Deputy Minister Le Dinh Tien.
It was also the follow-up of the agreement of
cooperation signed by the Vietnamese and French governments on November
12, 2009 aimed at developing and using nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes.
The Vietnamese head delegate said the
agreement would make an important contribution to building Vietnam’s
applied nuclear physics and particle accelerator capacity.
The cooperation would focus on graduate, master degree and doctorate
training for young Vietnamese physicists, in both France and Vietnam,
and help Vietnamese researchers being trained in France to work in
related areas, Tien said.
The agreement will also
provide opportunities for Vietnamese partners to participate in research
and training programmes in a network of international labs jointly
founded by the Vietnam National Centre for Scientific Research, the
French National Centre for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research
(IN2P3), the French Committee of Atomic Energy and research institutes
of several countries./.
