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Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF)

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Industry: Education and Training (NAICS 61)

Address:
Vietnam Field Office, Suite 502, Hanoi Towers
49 Hai Ba Trung Street
Hanoi
Vietnam
Phone: +84 4 3936 3670
Fax: +84 4 3936 3672

Activities:

The VEF educational exchange programs focus on the sciences (natural, physical, and environmental), engineering, mathematics, medicine (including public health and health sciences), and technology (including information technology).

Description:

VEF has three core programs:

(1) Fellowship Program, which sends Vietnamese nationals to the United States for graduate degree programs, funded through cost-sharing agreements between VEF and U.S. universities;

(2) Visiting Scholar Program, which funds Vietnamese nationals, who already hold a doctorate, to further develop their professional skills via studies, research, and/or observational activities at leading U.S. academic institutions;

(3) U.S. Faculty Scholar Program, which provides grants to American professors to teach courses at Vietnamese institutions for one or two semesters by teaching on-site in Vietnam or via interactive, real-time videoconferencing from the United States. VEF capacity-building efforts focus on activities in the same fields that build the relationship between U.S. and Vietnamese institutions and government entities and that strengthen the foundations in Vietnam for the return of VEF Fellows and Visiting Scholars to their home country. The U.S. headquarters office is located at 2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22201, USA (Phone: 1-703-351-5053).