Dissemination Event and Project Meeting-Bologna May 22-26 2017

The Meeting opened up with a Dissemination event that took place at Unioncamere Emilia Romagna and was addressed to the presentation of the Voyage Project and to the discussion of the issue of University-Enterprise cooperation in Europe and Vietnam. Italian companies investing in Vietnam, the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Italy, the Office for enterprises internationalization of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also took part to the event. The AlmaLaurea study on the Vietnamese graduates' in Italy was delivered to participants while in the round table the relevance of counselling and guidance tools to university choice in Vietnam and  the need to improve language skills and of soft skills of the young people to improve employment opportunities of the young was addressed. Autonomy of the universities, provide open information on the job market, scholarships for students mobility are key elements in enhancing university enterprise cooperation and employability in Vietnam.  The   press release of May 22 meeting together with the presentation released is available at:

http://www.ucer.camcom.it/comunicazione/notizie/notizie-ed-eventi-2017/cooperazione-tra-universita-europee-e-vietnamite

Project Meeting was addressed to the Intensive training, delivered by the AlmaLaurea IT experts to the IT staff of the 3 beneficiaries universities of HANU, PTIT and NUAE plus HIZA-CES and aimed at transfer all the technical tools on how to manage the platform locally.  

In the Steering Committee the issue of Project sustainability was widely discussed with the coordinator AlmaLaurea presented in details how AlmaLaurea guarantees its sustainability with the growing number of universities joining the consortium and new services provided to companies. The issue of pushing new comers in the platform and enhance the N of registered students and companies as baseline for future project sustainability was highlighted calling for the implementation of ad hoc dissemination strategies.

May 26 was addressed to Meeting at the University of Bologna  where the Vietnamese delegation met the Delegation for International Relations with Asia. UNIBO, PTIT and HANU presented the state of art of cooperation between Italy and Vietnam. The idea to foster cooperation between UNIBO, AlmaLaurea  and the Vietnamese Universities with the planning of future cooperation programs was discussed and welcomed.