A hybrid event themed “Imprint of Memory: Vietnamese Intellect in France”, where influential Vietnamese intellectuals in France – both past and present, residing, studying, and working in France – gather together, was organized by the Vietnam Innovation Network in Europe (VINEU) on May 18.

The speakers were all experienced experts, professors, and scholars living, studying, and working in France to influential researchers and entrepreneurs in Western Europe country.

The event is a special occasion to bring together Vietnamese intellectuals with significant influence in France and around the world to exchange and support the next generations.

Delegates pose for a group photo. Photo: VINEU

The talkshow session focused on sharing the meaningful journeys of individuals from Vietnam to France. At this event, participants heard about the educational journey, life experiences, and meaningful discoveries of these exceptional individuals. Moreover, the event was also a place to seek and preserve memories, and historical legacies from those who came before, along with concerns and perspectives for Vietnam’s future.

Sharing with VNA reporters in France, Tran Ha My, representative of the VINEU's French branch, said that the golden generations of Vietnamese intellectuals came to France.

With the desire to find the past to understand history, and learn from the successes of previous masters to grasp the future, VINEU organized this event to create an opportunity for older generations to share with each other. Young people have the opportunity to connect, discuss, and ask questions to the invited guests, as well as gain further insights into the past and history of the Vietnamese community in France, as well as their contributions to the host country, to their homeland of Vietnam and to French-Vietnamese relations.

Sharing a message with young Vietnamese people currently studying, working, and living in France, Professor Vu Ngoc Can of Compiègne University of Technology wants they to "be confident, dare to do, dare to experience" to achieve success, and not only contribute to the development of the host country but also to Vietnam homeland.

The presence of prominent figures in the Vietnamese intellectual community in France is a special highlight of this event. Photo: VINEU

Meanwhile, Nguyen Dang Mao, Associate Professor at the University of Lorraine, highly appreciated the initiative to organize the event to create conditions for connecting generations of Vietnamese researchers in France.

He expressed his impression of the striving example of his predecessors, who inspired him to seek opportunities to study abroad in France.

Wishing to continue this tradition and desire to contribute to his homeland, Vietnam, he hopes to be able to do something to help young people living in France, have the same opportunity to succeed as him, creating cooperative relations between domestic researchers and Vietnamese researchers in France, contributing to promoting the comprehensive development of both sides, especially in new fields.

Introduced in November 2021, VINEU is one of the eight global networks supported by the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s National Innovation Centre (NIC). It has a mission to gather Vietnamese knowledge in Europe and collaboratively provide sustainable solutions to challenges faced by Vietnam.

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