Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement between Vietnam and the FP 7 countries
| Starting date | Comments | |
| Austria | 2005 (MoU) | MoU between research ministries + ASEA-UNINET |
| France | 1977 | |
| Germany | 1997 | Actively pursued by BMBF, but not a real S&T agreement, rather a Memorandum of Understanding |
| Hungary | 20 July 2005 | |
| Poland | 12 Sept 1999 |
*This data is based on the information given by the partner countries
In Vietnam there are many reasons for starting intergovernmental bilateral S&T co-operation with EU countries. The most important rationales are the access to new S&T knowledge, international exchange of students, increase in the research capacities, access to research infrastructures of partners, enlargement of collaboration network, increase of knowledge of bilateral and multilateral cooperation instrument.