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The 10th OCEAN DIALOGUE
Offshore Renewable Energy - Opportunities and Challenges to Green Transition
Ocean Dialogue is one of the flagship cooperation programs between Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Vietnam and Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). Each Ocean Dialogue goes into a carefully set out topic. Since 2017, nine dialogues have been organized with a wide range of topics such as Ocean Governance in the South China Sea, fisheries cooperation, plastic waste management, environment sustainability etc…and received many positive responses from international and national scholars, researchers in relevant fields. The series of Ocean Dialogue intends to raise the importance of the maritime/sea/ocean by building up the knowledge and looking at it from different angles. Maritime issues are of great importance to the countries around the South China Sea, which affect their economic, political, environmental and security context. Not only regionally is this topic of relevance, it is of equal importance to the global community.
Workshop
Course building project - Politics of Globalization
Workshop on Curriculum Development
This week the first component of 2-year-course building project will be kicked off. It is also the first cooperation project between Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Vietnam and co-partner University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh city. The main instructors of this course building are international relation professors from President University, Indonesia. Besides, there will be group of lecturers collaborating with international experts on building the course; they are lecturers of the universities which have a department and teaching portfolio on multilateral diplomacy.
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Course building workshop
Foreign Policy Analysis
Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) appears in the curriculum of almost every university which offers undergraduate and/or graduate programs in Internatinal Relations (IR). In Vietnam, IR teaching has begun to follow international standards since late 1990s by introducing core courses such as IR History, IR Theories, Vietnam Foreign Policy, Global Governance… which is, surprisingly, not the case for FPA. To overcome this shortcoming, the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Vietnam co-organize the Course-Building Workshop on Foreign Policy Analysis. This is the phase 2 of a 3-years project supported by KAS Vietnam with the aim of incorporating FPA in the IR curriculum at DAV. The workshop will serve as a forum for exchanging ideas among Vietnamese scholars and researchers, and with their foreign colleagues about the syllabus of the FPA course. The participants are generally professors, scholars and researchers from almost all institutions and universities in Vietnam which have a department and/or teaching portfolio on IR.
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Workshop: Improving the Verification of the Settlement of State and local budgets
Enhancing the quality of verifying and approving final accounts of State and local budget
Enhancing the quality of verifying and approving final accounts of State and local budget is always an important task of the elected bodies and deputies in the attempt to make public spending transparent and efficient. NA deputies and delegates of people’s councils are elected every five year, therefore, it is crucial for the NA’s Finance and Budget Committee to regularly organize workshop to disseminate and sharing experiences among the newly elected deputies who are in charge of verifying and supervising state and local budget settlement. KAS Vietnam will cooperate with the National Assembly’s Finance and Budget Committee to organize a workshop on “Improving the verification of the State and local budget settlement”.
Expert conference
14th South China Sea International Conference, 16 - 17 November 2022
PEACEFUL SEA - SOLID RECOVERY
The most flagship event of the year has been reaching. South China Sea International Conference is a premium regional security forum focusing on SCS issues and ocean governance. This year, the event will be paneled by around 38 high-profile speakers and prominent experts who will be joined by an audience of hundreds of on-site and online participants. They are senior officials, members of diplomatic corps, leading scholars and academics and informed public throughout the world. The conference will provide participants with a unique opportunity to comprehensively discuss about (i)Toward a Maritime Rule Based Order, (ii) South China Sea in an Evolving Geopolitical Landscape (iii) Forging Best Practices in the South China Sea
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NCIF Research Launching Workshop
How the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) shapes supply chains in Vietnam?
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of ASEAN and five regional economies (Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and Korea) which was signed on November 15th 2020 and officially took effect from January 1st 2022. Many assessments believe that the impact of the Agreement due to tariff reduction is not much, while the impact on shaping supply chains in the RCEP and Vietnam is significant. For a more in-depth discussion of the above, the National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF), with the support of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), will launch the workshop on November 10th 2022 which will disseminate the research results.
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ISL Launching Workshop
Legal Framework Promoting Circular Economy for Sustainable Development – International Experiences and Implications for Vietnam
In this launching workshop, research on Legal Framework on Promoting Circular Economy for Sustainable Development – International Experience and Implications for Vietnam will be introduced, aiming to understand the policies and legal framework on CE development in some countries with the hope that practices in such countries will help Vietnam to gain lessons and has a good perspective in the policy making in CE development.
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VEPR Research Launching Workshop
EU's FDI to Vietnam in the context of EVFTA and EVIPA
Up to now, Vietnam has 15 signed agreements, two other agreements are under negotiation. Among them, the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is considered the most ambitious agreement that Vietnam has ever signed; at the same time, it is also the most ambitious FTA that the EU has ever signed with a developing country. Therefore, the EVFTA is expected to bring significant economic benefits to both sides, especially in trade and investment, thereby helping the two sides overcome the challenges of the current volatile world context
Expert talk
THE 9th OCEAN DIALOGUE
Marine scientific research: Confidence building and Environment sustainability
The South China Sea (SCS) is home to high marine biodiversity that merits marine scientific research (MSR). For a long period, MSR has been advocated as an area of common interest to restore ocean sustainability and build confidence among coastal states. In addition, rapid changes in climate and human activity demands MSR to identify shared solutions to environmental challenges such as the diminishment of fish stocks and coral reef ecosystems, marine plastic pollution, or climate change. Given its significance, the 9th Ocean Dialogue would explore possibilities to enhance MSR in the SCS. Experts will dwell on three specific topics, including: (i) the applicability of legal framework under UNCLOS for MSR; (ii) good practices in regional and international scope to offer some new ideas of what could be applied in the SCS, (iii) challenges coastal states could face in promoting science diplomacy in disputed areas, and policy recommendations accordingly.
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THE MEKONG FORUM 2
ASEAN Centrality in addressing the challenges in the Mekong sub-region
The Mekong issue plays an imperative role not only for the sub-regional countries through which the river flows but also for the whole Southeast Asian region. The ASEAN – Mekong Basin Development Cooperation (AMBDC) was established as early as 1996 to enhance eco-nomic integration among member countries. However, the AMBDC has made no significant progress compared to other dynamic mechanisms in the sub-region. The reason and ra-tionale behind the vital need for ASEAN to put the Mekong sub-region on the agenda has been discussed by prominent scholars in and outside the region. In particular, ASEAN and ASEAN-led mechanisms can create strategic space for member countries to cooperate on is-sues related to the Mekong sub-region. As the ASEAN chair for 2020, Vietnam has put the sub-regional cooperation issues on the agenda of the Association.
