Topic: “Innovative Partnership in Cross-border Higher Education”

Objectives: In the context of world education strongly influenced by the trend of globalization, regional integration, industrial revolution 4.0 and evolving demand on education, innovative partnership of higher education system in response to these trends was emphasised on the agenda of higher education institutions. Upon the success of our first and second annual Forum on Internationalization in Higher Education in 2017 and 2018 respectively, Foreign Trade University was motived to organize the Third Forum on Internationalization of Higher Education with the focus on Innovative Partnership in Cross-border Higher Education. The forum was expected to address various issues including but not limited to social innovation, social enterprises, state-of-the-art partnership platforms, etc. Objectives of the forum were as follows:

• Introduce and share practical models of social innovation, social enterprises, innovative partnership models between higher education institutions with enterprises, organizations in different countries;
• Discuss the opportunities and challenges in initiating innovative partnership models;
• Create a forum for discussion about various topics on international development among universities;
• Create a platform for potential exchange or cooperation among international universities and Vietnamese universities;
• Provide foreign universities an opportunity to meet and attract Foreign Trade University students, and students from other Vietnamese universities

Facts and fingers:

• Numbers of foreign universities: 33
• Numbers of Vietnameses universities: 65
• Numbers of Embassies: 14
• Number of participants: 290