VNU has made efforts to create a high-quality educational and scientific research environment through the issuance of a number of policies to support lecturers, researchers and attract scientists, especially highly qualified young scientists in the fields of basic science and core technology development, to work for VNU. The issued policies aimed to create a legal corridor to support VNU’s units, lecturers, staff and learners, as well as promote internal resources and nurture young scientists. This is the motivation for lecturers and scientists to enthusiastically innovate and improve the quality of teaching and scientific research, contributing to enhancing the position and academic reputation of VNU in the international arena.

Implementing the National strategy on attracting and utilizing talents to 2030, with a vision to 2050 approved by the Prime Minister, VNU issued document No. 3481/TB-DHQGHN dated September 20, 2023 on excellent scientists attracting policy. Accordingly, VNU is attracting scientists, including overseas Vietnamese and foreigners, with excellent research achievements to participate in scientific research and take on the position of strong research group leaders in VNU’s priority science and technology fields. VNU also prioritizes the use of shared facilities, equipment and funds for carrying out science and technology tasks to ensure the best environment for scientists to conduct scientific research.

In 2023, VNU also issued a number of other policies to enhance science and technology potential and promote the establishment of S&T enterprises, such as Regulations on management of VNU-level experimental production projects; Temporary guidance on establishing and developing businesses in VNU; increasing resources to serve science and technology activities; developing a VNU-level science and technology investment fund; forming an enterprise's brand fund; and promoting the use of unit funds according to the Government’s Decree 109/2022/NDCP dated December 30, 2022, among others.

The incentive policies for key research units and strong research groups, including Planning key laboratories, Guidelines on development and incentive regimes for strong research groups; Regulations on recognition, management and development of key laboratories/research centres at VNU level; Priorities for annual science and technology investment projects; Priorities for proposals of national and international tasks, cooperation tasks with businesses, etc. were also issued. Currently, VNU is effectively implementing these policies, whereby scientists are given priority development investment fund to promote laboratory development research capacity for strong research groups to implement VNU’s line of priority science and technology products and access science and technology information and databases.

In addition, VNU was implementing a number of supportive policies for scientists and learners, namely the project “Incubating young scientists at VNU up to 2025”; The scholarship support for doctoral students and post-doctoral trainees at VNU, up to 100 million VND/year for a doctoral student and 120 million VND/year for a young doctor with excellent research and international publication capability; Financial support policy for young scientists with doctoral degrees; Scholarships for students of basic sciences, among others.

Along with that, VNU continued to implement a number of breakthrough solutions to improve the quality of scientists, such as Effectively applying the solutions of the Project to develop a team of highly qualified and leading scientists; Applying the official employing mechanism, special recruitment or inviting excellent domestic and international scientists to work, take on management positions or important professional positions at VNU’s units. In addition to speeding up the processing of recruitment documents, VNU is directly attracting excellent scientists, while strongly empowering the unit heads to employ officials.

In 2022, VNU launched a healthcare project for professors working at VNU based on its medical resources and assigned VNU Hospital to be a liaison for the project implementation. After more than a year of the Project’s implementation, VNU expanded the scope of the healthcare policy to include outstanding scientists. This is one of the policies to attract, utilize, remunerate and develop highly-qualified scientists as well as to create a favourable environment for them to carry out professional activities.

The above policies have improved the working environment and contributed to reducing the risk of brain drain as well as promoting the attraction of scientific staff to work at VNU.