On February 8, 2022, VNU issued the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for the 2021 – 2030 period. This important legal document helps boost VNU’s science and technology to a higher level and is a strategic breakthrough to develop VNU into a smart and innovative university.

On September 20, 2022, VNU issued Decision No. 3149/QD-DHQGHN regulating the management of VNU’s science and technology tasks. Accordingly, the document specifies the criteria and process for determining, selecting, approving, and assigning scientific and technological tasks; organizing the implementation, evaluation, acceptance, and product management of scientific and technological tasks, etc.

In the past year, VNU organized many conferences and seminars to recommend measures to implement the VNU’s Science, Technology and Innovation: Science, Technology and Innovation Conference 2022; VNU cooperated with the Steering Committee for summarizing Resolution 54-NQ/TW to organize a seminar on "Developing culture, society, science and technology and protecting the environment in the Red River Delta up to 2030, vision to 2045”; VNU coordinated with the Ministry of Science and Technology to organize the seminar on "Supportive policies for searching, technology connection and innovation"; VNU in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and VNU-HCMC organized the 2nd Annual conference on the development of science, technology, innovation, and human resources in 2022.

These activities allowed VNU scientific community and managers to exchange, share experiences and propose solutions to promote scientific, technological, and innovation activities; connect and cooperate with businesses and research units to solve major national problems and increase the contribution of science and technology to socio-economic development.

In 2022, VNU further prioritized resources to conduct key national science and technology programs; strengthened cooperation with partners to implement S&T tasks to serve local development needs, and transferred research results to businesses.

In 2022, VNU continued coordinating with several units inside and outside VNU to organize the contest "VNU Startup Ideas – Innovation 2022” to create an environment for VNU’s undergraduates, graduates and lecturers flexibly apply their learned knowledge, research and teaching results to practice.