In March 2025, a total of 15 researcher from 9 different countries joined on the seventh R&IS of the Highlands.3 project in Vietnam. The Session was organized in cooperation with the National Institute of Animal Sciences (NIAS) in Vietnam.
For that, two researchers from NIAS conducted individual Secondments for about 2 months in Austria in Autumn 2024, to plan the Session with the Coordinators of the H.3 project. This gave us the possibility to plan the R&IS intensely and work on a schedule, that would fit everybody and would cover multiple areas in Vietnam.
We started on the 3rd of March, after everybody arrived in Hanoi with the opening ceremony at NIAS, where the participants learned about the principles of the Highlands project and got an introduction about the country, the region and what to expect in the following weeks.
Two days later, we flew from Hanoi to Dien Bien, the region where the first Initiatives would be visited. In Dien Bien, we also met with the Department of Agriculture and Environment, to learn more about the agricultural sector and share our experiences of the H.3 project.
In the following 2 weeks, multiple Initiatives of the Dien Bien region were visited. In this Session we collected data from a total of 19 Initiatives, which will soon be added to the ISDH Platform (access here)!
The group returened to Hanoi on the 20th of March by bus, where it was ended with discussions and the Closing Meeting on the 26th of March.
We thank everybody who helped organizing the Session in this beautiful country and are motivated for the last R&IS of the project, which will be conducted in June-July 2025 in Spain/Portugal!
