The Project Management Unit (PMU) organized the meetings of 14 Technical Committees on September 13^th and 14^th, 2017 to evaluate 14 first batch research proposals under the CTU Improvement Project. These proposals have been called and processed since May 4^th, 2017. Organization of these Technical Committees’ meetings follows the selection process in the Guidelines for Research Management of the CTU Improvement Project established based on the official Project documents, i.e., the Feasibility Study document and the Minutes of Discussion of different meetings among JICA, delegations of Japanese Professors, Project consultants and CTU, as well as the Guidelines for Management of Research Projects in the Circular 11/2016/TT-BGDĐT dated 11 April 2016 of the Ministry of Education and Training.

A Technical Committee was composed of:

The 14 proposals have been thoroughly reviewed by the Japanese Technical Committees from 9 Japanese Universities then revised accordingly by the research teams; therefore, they were qualified and selected by the Committees here to be granted by the Project in 2018. Each research team presented its proposal and responded to every comment of the Committee members which helped make the proposal even better. All 14 proposals would be revised according to the Committee’s conclusions then sent again to the Japanese Technical Committees for the second review. Those proposals are:

1. Collection, evaluation and development of native animal breeds - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Đỗ Võ Anh Khoa
2. Developing integrated crop management (ICM) for improvement of product quality and adaptation to climate changes - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Lê Vĩnh Thúc
3. Studies on sustainable soil uses - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Châu Minh Khôi
4. Molecular studies for detection and identification of animal diseases in MDR - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Nguyễn Trọng Ngữ
5. Studies and development of post-harvest technologies for rice, plant and crop based-food products in MDR - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Lý Nguyễn Bình
6. Development of value added food products from agricultural products and by-products in MDR - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Nguyễn Công Hà
7. Studies on food pathogens and antibiotics resistant bacteria - Leader: Dr. Tống Thị Ánh Ngọc
8. Green technology innovation for aquaculture - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Trần Ngọc Hải
9. Quality improvement of fisheries/aquaculture products - Leader: Dr. Lê Thị Minh Thủy
10. Biochemistry and pharmaceutical science in aquaculture and fisheries - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Trần Thị Tuyết Hoa
11. Water and land resources monitoring - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Võ Quang Minh
12. Analyzing and modeling water and land resources - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Văn Phạm Đăng Trí
13. Evaluating the agro-ecological changes under great threats of the in-situ development and climate change - Leader: Dr. Trần Sỹ Nam

Analysis of economic efficiency of natural resource uses and problems in natural resource uses and management - Leader: Assoc. Prof. Trương Hoàng Đan

One of the Technical Committee’s meetings on September 13^th 2017 in the Meeting Room 2 of the Administration Building of Can Tho University.

One of the Technical Committee’s meetings on September 14^th 2017 in the Meeting Room 2 of the Administration Building of Can Tho University.

The core members of the 14 Technical Committees (Assoc. Prof. Trần Trung Tính (middle): Chairman, Assoc. Prof. Lê Việt Dũng (right): Vice Chairman and Dr. Nguyễn Đắc Khoa (left): Member).

Other 4 members (left) of a Technical Committee to evaluate a research proposal in Agriculture.

The research teams presented their proposals and responded to comments of the Committee members.

(ODA Project Management Unit)