Dr. Nguyen Dang Minh, Head of Office of Research and Partnership Development, leaders of five UEB’s faculties and lecturers attended the program.
 The Sumitomo Foundation is a non-profit organization which was founded on September 25^th 1991 by 20 companies in Sumitomo Corporation to celebrate 300 years of Besshi Copper Mine in Shikoku, Japan. The objective of the Fund is to contribute to improve society by calling for the support of the community. Currently the fund's grants will be delivered to the project which objectives are set out to resolve the problems that people are facing, such as culture, environment as well as supporting scientific research and the international exchange.
In Vietnam, the fund was active in bridging between Vietnam - Japan, especially in the field of human resources training, linking the scholars of two countries. In recent years, many professors and archaeologists in Vietnam have received grants from the fund to implement the project, research work. According to statistics of the fund, since 1992, more than 100 Vietnamese scientists received the grant of the fund.
Currently, the Sumitomo Foundation is receiving proposals which are related to Japan issues from the Asian countries.
In his presentation, Mr. Koichi expressed his desire to have more projects from the researchers of Vietnam in general and UEB in particular to compete with universities, research institutes around the world on receiving of funding. Then, this grant will probably contribute to the development of human resources in Vietnam in the future.
After the presentation of Mr. Koichi, lecturers interested in the program have discussed and asked many questions around the themes, priorities, time frame to make a research topic... from which lecturers could prepare for their research proposals to apply for Sumitomo Foundation’s grant program.