The Vietnam National University in Hanoi is, with over twenty thousand students, the biggest university of the country. In the near future, a brand new campus featuring a high tech park the size of two thousand football fields will spring up about thirty kilometers from the city.
Aarnink: `It's a very creative process. The circumstances in Vietnam are a lot more difficult than here. Not only is the budget limited, you also have to deal with natural circumstances.'
In November, Aarnink and Van de Wetering will go to the Vietnamese capital for four weeks, to instruct the technicians and to work on process development with Vietnamese PhD students. It is unclear when the actual construction work will start, but Aarnink expects that it will still take a couple of years.
Trans. Jeroen Latour
