On October 3, 2022, the Standing Board of VNU Party Committee had a meeting to discuss a policy on financial support for young scientists.
Accordingly, the Standing Board of VNU Party Committee discussed and agreed on the implementing of the financial support policy for young scientists. This is one of the breakthrough policies to increase income for young scientists so that they can concentrate on their work, teaching and scientific research to increase the quantity and quality of scientific research products, and contribute to improving the innovation index of VNU; thereby creating an attractive force to attract scientists, especially highly qualified young staff, to work at VNU.
The development and implementation of financial support policies for young scientists needs to satisfy the following requirements:
- Beneficiaries of the policy are young scientists (under 40 years old) with a doctorate degree or higher, capable of doing research, and commit to fulfilling the assigned scientific and technological targets. The implementation of the policy must ensure the principle of supporting the right subjects based on their scientific research outputs; no flat scale; focus on discovering and fostering outstanding young scientists.
- Within their first 3 years of working at VNU, young staff are entitled to 1 research project at VNU level or 2 research projects at unit level with a total funding equal to that for 1 VNU level research project.
- Supporting non-funded high-quality international publications; specifically, non-funded scientific articles published in Q1 or Q2 journals according to Scimago Ranking with the minimum support levels as follows: 100 million VND/article in top 5% industry/field journals; 70 million VND/article in Q1 journals; 50 million VND/article in Q2 journals. The actual level of support for an article depends on the number and role of that article’s authors as VNU staff.
- For basic sciences, financial support is implemented through assigning tasks to young scientists with under five years of work to ensure an average income of at least 15 million VND/month. Responding to the proposal by VNU University of Science, VNU agreed to pilot supporting 100 young scientists to improve VNU's international publication index.