Quy Nhon University’s mission is to train and develop high-quality human resources, foster talents, conduct scientific research, spread knowledge and facilitate technology transfer with a view to effectively serving the sustainable development of the country, especially in the South Central Region and the Central Highlands, contributing to the advancement of society.
The work of scientific research of the University has addressed the needs of improving the quality of comprehensive training, meeting the social requirements. It has been carried out in the direction of combining teaching and learning with the application of science into practice. Over the past few years, Quy Nhon University has made great strides in both the quantity and quality of articles and publications published both at home and abroad.
In the period of 2013 - 2018, the University has been successfully presiding over many national, ministerial and provincial-level projects. Basic scientific research is the University’s strong point, and the number of research projects in this field is growing rapidly. A lot of lecturers in natural sciences have carried out National-level projects funded by the National Fund for Science and Technology Development (Nafosted). Notably, Assoc.Prof. Dr. Nguyen Sum from the Department of Mathematics of the University was awarded the Ta Quang Buu Award and is one of Vietnam's two academics on the list of the top 100 2018 Asian Scientists by Asian Scientist Magazine. In addition, the University attaches great importance to cooperation with higher education institutions, research institutes and localities to solve practical problems. During the past 5 years, the University has signed cooperation agreements with KU. Leuven and has led three research projects funded by the Kingdom of Belgium.
Along with the rapid development of scientific research, the students’ scientific research projects are rapidly increasing in quantity and quality. Scientific research projects have been completed on time with many articles published in prestigious journals both at home and abroad. With some outstanding scientific products, every year Quy Nhon University’s students receive many awards for Ministry-level scientific research and scholarships given by organizations, companies and enterprises.
The university has also organized a lot of domestic and international conferences and seminars, attracting a great deal of attention from scientists, researchers from universities, prestigious institutes, national and international ministries and sectors. With a team of lecturers professionally trained in some developed countries, together with existing research facilities, the university has had hundreds of articles and scientific works published in a lot of prestigious international journals of ISI, many textbooks, monographs, reference books in both English and Vietnamese.
As a prestigious, application-oriented and multi-disciplinary university, the university considers science and technology one of the key tasks. Therefore, in the period 2016 - to 2020, vision 2030, the task of science and technology of the University focuses on the following issues:
- Building strong research groups in terms of quantity and quality in order to develop the capacity of research, application and transfer of technology. On that basis, it aims to build excellent institutions and centers for scientific research and application directly under the University.
- Designing and implementing national-level interdisciplinary scientific research projects, promoting the role of scientific and technological centers, basic scientific research and application in the field of new energy, renewable energy and environmental protection; studying the problems of coping with climate change and improving the economic efficiency of the sea, technology, information and communication technology and humanities and social sciences.