Prof. Park Sang-woo also shared the story concerning to how South Korea overcame the remnants from Korean War to achieve an amazingly rapid economic growth rate. South Korea is building a global smart city network to open up a steady smart city future with countries around the world by solving various urban matters through services based on spatial data, combined with advanced technologies of Industry 4.0. The professor believed that research data, academic exchange and cooperation in the field of smart cities would play an important role in building a sustainable smart city in Vietnam and contribute to the deployment of the sustainable development strategy at UEH.

Prof. Park put his trust in UEH student generations: “We are living in an era of innovation and I always rely that the young generation is the most paramount subject and the future of every family, every community and every country. Over the past decades, lots of student generations have begun their journey at UEH - just like what you are doing now, and many of them have traveled out into the world and become leaders in their specializations. I usually hope all of you will have exciting journeys ahead. Wish you always live with your passions and strive to learn to develop in a wonderful learning environment at UEH.”

UEH accompanying new students on their journey to becoming global citizens

Over the past 45 years, UEH has successfully and comprehensively performed the tasks of training highly qualified human resources: serving and dedicating to the national economic development. Along with that, impressively transformational steps have been performed: implementing university autonomy with positive results; building and innovating advanced training programs in accordance with international integration tendency; strengthening international cooperation; boosting supportive resources to scientific research development, international publication, contributing to promoting UEH's academic reputation in the world market; thriving modern facilities and so on. All of UEH's relentless efforts have aimed at ultimately equipping UEH students for their confidence entrance into the highly competitive labor market that meets the demands of the new labor market with a new position - as a global citizen in globalization context.

Prof. Dr. Su Dinh Thanh – UEH President stated: “I would like to send my warm congratulations to Batch 47 Freshmen, the dynamic Gen Z and the future of the nation, who have joined United UEH family. Thank you for always trusting and choosing UEH as a place to accompany and cultivate your knowledge in the next years. We do commit to creating the best learning environment for you to have more space for thinking, to be creative and to achieve the expected learning outcomes as well as to have meaningful student days at UEH Common House.”

On training-and-learning journey, UEH will assist students in raising their confidence and maturity through many activities associated with practice and study, creating conditions for students to discover and to evolve their potentials by academic competitions, scientific research activities with grasping new technologies, exchanging students with advanced universities abroad as UEH-partners or studying to a higher level and more so as to enhance their competitiveness towards being the global citizen generation capable of handling practical global problems.

The first online opening ceremony combining modern LED performance stage technology would await Batch 47 Freshmen in writing a new journey together. That Opening ceremony and modern inspirational ceremony with visual effects incorporated virtual interactive technologies showed generation succession and added a spirit to mark the beginning of a new school year full of hopes of UEH teachers and students.