Vienna (VNA) – National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Huereceived leaders of IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems (IMCKrems), Weforyou Group, and Christof Systems under Christof Industries Group aswell as representatives of the Vietnamese community in Vienna on September 6 aspart of his trip to Austria to attend the fifth World Conference of Speakers ofParliament (WCSP5).

Receiving representatives of IMC Krems, a private university of Austria withmany cooperation activities with Vietnamese universities, Hue highly valued itscollaboration with Vietnamese education and training establishments.

He expressed his hope that IMC Krems will continue to strengthen cooperationwith Vietnamese universities to train human resources in sectors in whichVietnam has demand such as business, digitalisation and technique, health care,and science-technology.

Meeting with Managing Director of Christof Systems Wolfgang Nestler, theVietnamese leader lauded the company's solutions and products in treatingwaste, especially medical waste, underlining Vietnam’s interest in medicalwaste treatment solutions.

He proposed the firm work with relevant agencies of Vietnam to receiveguidelines on taking part in waste treatment projects at health care facilitiesof the country.

Christof Systems, a waste treatment solution provider with revenue of over 394million USD in 2020, is supplying services to some Vietnamese partners in the2000-2006 period.

On the occasion, Weforyou Group presented 30,000 N95 medical masks and 10,000COVID-19 test kits to Vietnam.

Hue thanked Weforyou for the gifts, expressing his hope that the group willcoordinate with the Vietnamese Embassy in Austria as well as relevant agenciesto implement its projects in Vietnam, including considering the possibility ofinvestment in medical supplies production in Vietnam in the future.

The NA Chairman hoped Austrian enterprises and partners will support Vietnam inmedical equipment serving pandemic prevention and control, while assistingVietnam in speeding up vaccinations against COVID-19.
 
Also on September 6, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) LeMinh Hoan visited BIOMIN Research Center (BRC) in Tulln near Vienna.

The centre, run by DSM Group, is a world leading research facility on animalnutrition. It has made its presence in Vietnam since 1995 and invested inagricultural research centres in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong withtotal capital of over 30 million USD.

In a meeting with Martin Eichtinger, Lower Austrian State Government Memberresponsible for housing, labor and international relations and leaders of thecentre, Hoan said that Vietnam keens on cooperating with world leading firms toshorten the development gap in agriculture with the world, thus switching to anagriculture sector with a high ratio of knowledge, science and technology,especially biotechnology, dealing with problems caused by climate change.

Franz Waxenecker, Managing Director of BIOMIN, said that Vietnamese farmers arefacing many challenges in breeding, including issues in improving the healthand productivity of livestock by using natural and environmentally-friendlyproducts to reduce independence on antibiotics.

Since 1995, BIOMIN has sought solutions for agricultural and animal nutritionto help Vietnamese farmers deal with the issues, he noted./.