Professor Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, was honoured with the title of an honorary doctor by Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh. Professor Madryas is the first rector from Poland to receive such a distinction from a Vietnamese university

The award ceremony was the last highlight of his visit to Vietnam, which started on 1 April. The authorities of Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh appreciated, among other things, our rector's important contribution to the development of the educational cooperation between Wrocław University of Science and Technology and TDTU, as well as between Vietnam and Poland. The Polish Ambassador to Vietnam took part in Friday’s ceremony.

Ton Duc Thang University was founded in September 1997 and is now considered to be one of the two most important universities in Vietnam. Its 17 faculties and 1.3 thousand academics provide education to over 23 thousand students.

IProfessor Madryas’s visit to Vietnam started in Hanoi, where he signed three agreements with the National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE), a Vietnamese university leading in the fields of architecture and civil engineering. The document provides for the establishment of bilateral cooperation between our universities, exchange of students, and employees under the Erasmus+ programme.

Professor Madryas also met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Vietnam, Wojciech Gerwel. The next part of the visit was a meeting with the representatives of Viet-Pol International Cooperation and Overseas Education Consulting Centre, an organisation for Vietnamese graduates of Polish universities. During the meeting, a cooperation agreement was signed between WUST and Viet-Pol, under which the organisation will promote our university in Vietnam and help recruit young people who would like to study at Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

During the second part of his stay in Vietnam, Professor Madryas visited Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU) in Ho Chi Minh. On Thursday, the Rector signed a multilateral agreement on the establishment of a consortium of universities cooperating with TDTU. Apart from Wrocław University of Science and Technology (as the only Polish tertiary institute), the consortium includes 11 universities from the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, and Taiwan. On Friday, at the end of his visit to Vietnam, received an honorary doctorate from the authorities of Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh.