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Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) was established in 1957 and has been recognized as a centre of excellence among technological universities in Vietnam. Prior to the country re-unification in 1975, the university was the only institution to produce engineers in the Southern Vietnam. Up to the present day, HCMUT still remains as the largest, the most prestigious and the oldest engineering university in the South of Vietnam. The Strategic Objectives of HCMUT from 2016 to 2020 1. Vision: To become an innovative, pioneering and international integrated university . 2. Mission: HCMUT is an autonomous university with the following missions: • To educate the intellectual human resources with leadership competence; • To create new knowledge through scientific research and technological transfer; • To assume and perform social responsibility and community services. 3. Strategies: The specific strategies as follows: 1. Efficiency management and resource development to ensure the transformation into an autonomous university; 2. Development of excellent staff; 3. Educational excellence; 4. Research and Technology transfer excellence; 5. Internationalization, cooperation, community outreach and strong sense of social responsibility. 4. System of core values HCMUT promotes to the following core values: • The devotion and core competence of our management, academic staff, and students; • Creativity and Innovation in education and research; • Dynamic learning environment and international integration; • Strong sense of social responsibility and community services; • Strong linkages between the university, community, and enterprises. 5. Educational philosophy: “Liberal Art Education; Pioneering in quality, creativity and integration”

The Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) is Cambodia’s oldest and one of the largest public universities. It hosts more than 12,000 scholarship and full-fee paying students, across a diverse range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. It is unique in Cambodia for offering specialist degrees in fields including the sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well as professional degrees in fields such as information technology, electronics, psychology, social work, and tourism. RUPP also provides Cambodia’s foremost degree-level language programs through the Institute of Foreign Languages. Due to its many achievements, RUPP has full membership of the ASEAN University Network (AUN).

Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) is a Cambodian Higher Education Institution which was founded in 1964 and supported by cooperation between the Cambodia and the former Soviet Union. More than 10000 executive members have been graduated from ITC. They are currently working intensely on the economic and social infrastructure development of Cambodia. In the current context of globalization and fast transformations of new technologies ITC’s main concerns are to play an efficient role in the Cambodian society and to be at the cutting edge of development to improve our educational system. Our goal is to provide students with a high quality education in the fields of engineering sciences and technologies. Students are provided with technical know-how and skills of analysis which allow integration and evolution in the labor market. To achieve this, the academic and international scientific research requires development. Besides our academic activities, ITC contributes to maintain sustainable development and decrease the inequalities within our society through its internal functioning and opening-up to foreign countries and the way their students get admitted. The current development of ITC owes a lot to the support of the national community and the great efforts made by staffs and students from generation to generation. Nowadays, ITC is at the crossroads in South Eastern Asia region where several partners meet: - French Cooperation, - Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), - La communauté Française de Belgique (CUD), - AUN/SEED-net, - GMSARN - School of Internet network etc… ITC enjoys numerous cooperative agreements with European, Regional, and local Universities. ITC also enjoys privileged relations with a great number of Cambodian companies and multinationals which have branches throughout Cambodia.