The 15th SHARE Policy Dialogue in Hanoi (Photo: Ministry of Education and Training)

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc said targets and initiatives proposed at the dialogue are in line with Vietnam's top priorities of improving quality, promoting integration and innovation and strengthening international cooperation in higher education. The event aims to share information, exchange views and propose initiatives to establish a common higher education space in Southeast Asia, he noted.

Deputy Minister Phuc expressed the belief that the ASEAN higher education space will help enable greater harmonization and internationalization of the ASEAN higher education, especially in enhancing people to people connectivity and supporting ASEAN community building.

The roadmap is expected to be submitted to the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia in November this year.

The SHARE programme, which was launched in March 2014, is the leading higher education programme of the EU in cooperation with ASEAN, to support the implementation of the ASEAN Work Plan on Education.