The year 2022 marked a turning point for Hoa Lac-based VNU town as VNU’s headquarters and some of its members and affiliates officially started work, teach and study here.

The opening ceremony of the 2022 – 2023 academic year, held in Hoa Lac on October 23, 2022, was attended by Politburo member, Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man; leaders of ministries and sectors, and especially a large number of VNU officials, lecturers, former officials, school students, and undergraduates. This event marked the end of the three-hundred-day campaign to create the conditions for welcoming students to study at VNU Hoa Lac campus. This was also a significant event marking the commencement of VNU’s first academic year in Hoa Lac. This event also has historical importance for the goal of moving all VNU's universities and training institutions to Hoa Lac to create a new space - a green, clean, wonderful, smart, and innovative university town.

Early on, VNU's Board of Presidents had moved to work regularly at VNU Hoa Lac headquarters since March 2022.

On May 19, 2022, VNU’s headquarters was relocated to its Hoa Lac campus. It laid an essential ground to readily welcome 2,000 first-year students of VNU University of Education, Vietnam - Japan University, and International School to study and reside, along with almost 6,000 VNU students taking courses in physical education, and national defense and security at Hoa Lac campus.

In the first and second quarters of 2022, VNU completed and put into use lecture halls, classrooms, laboratories, etc.… in Buildings HT1, HT2, Zone 4 Dormitory, Library, and VNU administration compound. VNU's Board of Presidents has started regular work at Hoa Lac headquarters since March 2022. Along with investing in building essential utility structures to serve upcoming students' learning and working activities, VNU and its partners have been actively planting trees to green 165 hectares.

On July 29, 2022, VNU inaugurated the first lecture hall within HT1 - HT2 complexes located at VNU Hoa Lac campus with a total floor area of 35,000m2 and 300 working rooms and lecture halls for 4,000 students, lecturers to study and work.

To best meet the essential needs of lecturers and students when studying and working at Hoa Lac campus, the relevant units mobilized all resources to complete the work on organization, personnel, training, scientific research, finance, facilities, equipment, learning materials, development cooperation, information technology infrastructure, student dormitories, and many other associated components. In 2022, in consultation with VNU President, many of VNU’s affiliated units moved their offices to Hoa Lac.

In 2022, implementing the decision of VNU Party Committee’s Standing Board and VNU’s Board of Presidents, a number of VNU’s affiliated units moved their administrative offices to Hoa Lac.