{"id":3420,"date":"2026-08-20T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/pfiev-mission-to-ho-chi-minh-city-training-mobility-and-climate-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:55:23","slug":"pfiev-mission-to-ho-chi-minh-city-training-mobility-and-climate-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/pfiev-mission-to-ho-chi-minh-city-training-mobility-and-climate-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"PFIEV Mission to Ho Chi Minh City: Training, Mobility, and Climate Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <strong>August 19\u201320, 2026<\/strong>, the PFIEV at<strong>the Ho Chi Minh City Polytechnic Institute (IPHCMV)<\/strong>, hosted by the <strong>Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)<\/strong>, welcomed <strong>Thibaut Skrzypek, representative of the French PFIEV consortium and head of international cooperation at the \u00c9cole nationale des ponts et chauss\u00e9es<\/strong>, as part of the <strong>Building and Energy<\/strong> track.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3416\" src=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6381-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6381-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6381-300x225-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6381-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6381-1536x1152-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6381-2048x1536-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3413\" src=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4235-1-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4235-1-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4235-1-300x225-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4235-1-768x576-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4235-1-1536x1152-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4235-1-2048x1536-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3407\" src=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4232-768x1024-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4232-768x1024-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4232-225x300-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4232-1152x1536-1.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4232-1536x2048-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4232-scaled-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3410\" src=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4228-1024x768-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4228-1024x768-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4228-300x225-1.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4228-2048x1536-1.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4228-768x576-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pfiev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4228-1536x1152-1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This mission provided an opportunity to continue academic exchanges between the program\u2019s Vietnamese and French partners. In particular, it included participation in <strong>the joint Franco-Vietnamese jury for final-year projects<\/strong>, interviews with students applying for <strong>dual degrees and internships in France<\/strong>, as well as several opportunities for discussion with the faculty. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A presentation by<strong>the \u00c9cole nationale des ponts et chauss\u00e9es (ENPC)<\/strong> was also offered to the students to introduce them to the institution, its degree programs, its research activities, and the various options for continuing their studies in France after the PFIEV program. The ENPC has been a founding member of the French PFIEV consortium since 1997 and has a long-standing partnership with the Vietnamese institutions participating in the program. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mission also provided an opportunity to organize a seminar titled <strong>\u201cParis and Climate Change: Adapting the City, Buildings, and Infrastructure.\u201d<\/strong> Drawing on Paris\u2019s experience, the discussions focused on several challenges facing major cities: urban heat islands, adapting buildings to high temperatures, cooling networks, stormwater management, flood risks, and infrastructure resilience. Parallels were drawn with the specific challenges facing Ho Chi Minh City, particularly heat, flooding, and land subsidence.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond technical solutions, the seminar highlighted the central role that <strong>future engineers<\/strong> will play in helping cities adapt to climate change, as well as the importance of strengthening Franco-Vietnamese cooperation in the areas of education, research, and academic mobility.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PFIEV would like to extend its warmest thanks to the <strong>Faculty of Civil Engineering at HCMUT<\/strong>, the local program team, and all the students for their hospitality, their participation, and the quality of our discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFIEV Mission to Ho Chi Minh City: Training, Mobility, and Climate Adaptation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pfiev-mission-to-ho-chi-minh-city-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfiev.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}