From 2016, the USTH set up calls for projects of different sizes (USTH-20 for students, “Type-2” for young researchers, “Type-1” for lecturers-researchers able to set up team projects, and “Targeted” in 2021, aiming for transdisciplinary collaborations in external partnerships. The winners of these projects are then supported by evaluation and defense committees that provide advice to the laureates and thus their progress on the learning curve in raising funding.
As shown by the graph below, USTH researchers were successful in obtaining projects from external funding sources such as Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED), Vingroup Innovation Foundation (VinIF)… and Foreign funding (the French Embassy in Vietnam, International Foundation for Science (IFS),…) with the budget increasing significantly since 2017.