On July 20^th, 2022, ULIS-VNU held a meeting with Mr. Laurent Sermet, Director of the Association of Francophone Universities in the Asian-Pacific region.

Delivering his speech at the meeting, Vice President Lam Quang Dong wished that AUF would support ULIS in the transfer of knowledge and technology in foreign language teaching and learning. He also expressed his hope that AUF would support the Francophonic Research Center at the Faculty of French Language and Culture to develop into a major research center on Francophone in Vietnam and the region.

Mr. Laurent Sermet emphasized that one of the focus areas of AUF at present is innovation to integrate with the world, thereby increasing job opportunities for students and connecting with businesses, and acknowledged that this was a big similarity between the two institutions.

At the end of the meeting, AUF and ULIS agreed to cooperate in many potential and related fields. Mr. Sermet then visited the French compound.