After more than 10 years of successful cooperation, we are pleased to announce that a double-degree agreement for the Master's programme Computational Engineering was signed between the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) on 15 March 2022.

The Rector of RUB, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Martin Paul, and the President of VGU, Prof. Dr. Tomas Benz, signed the agreement during a small ceremony in the presence of the RUB lecturers and coordinators who are closely involved with the VGU degree programmes.
The CompEng@VGU Master's course has been established at VGU in 2009 and has since graduated over 50 graduates, more than a third of whom have gone on to pursue a doctorate and start an international career. One of the first graduates from 2012, Dr. Lu Trong Khiem Nguyen, was recent-ly appointed Lecturer (with tenure, equivalent to a professorship at a German university) in Multiscale Materials at the University of Glasgow. The teaching of Computational Engineering at VGU was initially carried out exclusively by a flying faculty consisting of German lecturers. In the last years, the number of Vietnamese lecturers increased and since 2018, the degree programme has been successfully transferred to autonomy at VGU. The now finalised double-degree agreement regulates and strengthens the cooperation between the two partners in the future.

We would like to thank all those involved who have intensively lived and promoted the cooperation between VGU and RUB in the recent years and look forward to further expanding the exchange between the two study programmes in the coming years.

K. Hackl, J. Sahlmen (Programme coordinators CompEng)