Criteria for strong team leaders and research group members in higher education institutions in Vietnam

Criteria for strong team leaders and research group members in higher education institutions in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. What is a strong research group in a higher education institution?

According to Clause 3, Article 2 of Decree 109/2022/ND-CP, a strong research group in a higher education institution is a collective of scientists led by a reputable, capable and highly qualified scientist at the higher education institution who leads and develop an interdisciplinary, long-term, pioneering and breakthrough research direction;

Have research objectives, plans and contents in each specific period to create products of high scientific and practical value, associated with doctoral training and post-doctoral research.

Criteria for strong team leaders and research group members in higher education institutions.

2. Criteria for strong team leaders and research group members in higher education institutions in Vietnam

Specifically, in Clause 1, Article 9 of Decree 109/2022/ND-CP, the group leader is a permanent lecturer of a higher education institution who simultaneously meets the following criteria:

(1) Having led 01 national science and technology task or 02 science and technology tasks of ministerial or provincial level which have been tested and accepted as passed or higher in the last 5 years;

(2) Being the author of 01 monograph or 02 university books and textbooks;

(3) Having an h-index of 10 or more (according to the Scopus database);

(4) Being the main author of at least 10 works published in scientific journals in the WoS database or the author of at least 02 inventions or 05 utility solutions,

Or 02 plant variety patents or being the author of a scientific and technological work winning the first prize at the ministerial or provincial level or the Ho Chi Minh Prize, the State Prize in science and technology;

(5) Having successfully supervised at least 02 postgraduate students;

(6) Having experience in cooperating with domestic and foreign organizations in implementing scientific and technological activities, trial production or successful commercialization of scientific and technological products in provinces and central-affiliated cities and foreign countries;

(7) Fit for work as prescribed by labor law, still eligible for professional work for at least 5 years before retirement age as prescribed by labor law to complete the research orientations.

In addition, the co-leader is a reputable scientist invited from abroad, responsible for the academic content, has a research orientation in line with the research orientation of the group leader, and also meets the standards in (3), (4), (5) or has won prestigious international awards in the field of research.

 The group leader will be exceptionally recognized if he/she is a leading scientist who is recognized according to regulations on the utilization of individuals in scientific and technological activities or has won prestigious international awards in the field of science and technology research area and meet the requirements at (6).

(Clause 2 and 3, Article 9 of Decree 109/2022/ND-CP)

3. Responsibilities and rights of strong team leaders in higher education institutions in Vietnam

Responsibilities and rights of a group leader include:

- Formulate a research orientation and development plan for 5 years and submit it to the organization leading the strong research group for approval;

- Make an application to request the leading organization to recognize a strong research group in a higher education institution;

- Gather domestic and foreign teams in related fields of expertise to coordinate with members of strong research groups in higher education institutions to interpret research orientations and development plan for 5 years that has been approved; assign specific tasks to each member to carry out research activities associated with doctoral training, maintain stability and increase the quantity and quality of scientific and technological products every year;

- Effectively use the facilities and equipment of the organization leading the strong research group in the higher education institution and those of the organizations and enterprises that cooperate in performing the research tasks; use the funds allocated in accordance with regulations to achieve the products committed in the description of the research orientation and development plan in 5 years; be accountable to the organization leading the strong research group in the higher education institution and relevant regulatory agencies;

- Send annual report on the performance of the strong research group to the leading organization;

- Be autonomous in attracting experts, postgraduate students and interns to participate in performing research tasks of the strong research group in higher education institution; in admitting members to join strong research groups in higher education institution; in using and allocating resources within the strong research group in the higher education institution;

- Propose to the organization leading the strong research group, relevant ministries, branches and agencies in the development of new research orientations and new training programs; to develop scientific and technological products of the strong research group in higher education institution;

- Enjoy incentives and support policies equivalent to those for leading scientists in higher education institutions according to regulations on utilization of individuals in scientific and technological activities.

(Clause 2, Article 11 of Decree 109/2022/ND-CP)

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