want to do, it will be very difficult

Dr. Kawai: According to your explanation, JICA’s training course now contributes in your project very well. In other words, capacity development of one project can contribute to other activities. I hope that our capacity development for ISEM and INEV will contribute to other activities, especially to improve the waste management in Vietnam in the near future. Dr. Harada, you belong to Kyoto University and Kyoto University established satellite office in Hanoi University of Science and Technology. What are main functions and advantages of this office?

Dr. Harada: Before talking about the functions, I would like to introduce briefly about our office.

Our office established in 2008. We have 2 assistance professors and 2 supporting staff in the office. This is for the collaboration researches and education of environmental studies between Japan and Vietnam. The main function is to support education and research activities of these two countries. Based on this collaboration office we conducted several researches, for example anaerobic digestion studies, on-site sanitation studies and waste management studies. We are conducting several studies for environment sanitation in Hanoi and in Vietnam. Because we have office, so this is a very big advantage for us because we can continuously keep our activities. So to do any environment sanitation improvement, we still be lack of basic information. To accumulate the necessary information, this type of continuous activity is very important. Also we are similar to each other, Vietnamese researchers and Japanese researchers are similar to each other. Of course Japanese researchers cannot do anything without Vietnamese researcher's support in Vietnam. And also we'd like to contribute to Vietnamese environment sanitation through Vietnamese researchers. So it's not so concrete but this kind of collaboration is very advantage to make actually effective and useful research conducted in Vietnam.

Dr. Kawai: I also completely agree with your opinion that it’s crucial to have network if we implement research, especially on waste management. In addition to ISEM or INEV we have great support from consultants such as Mr. Hoang. For example Dr. Matsui, you have exchanged students from Vietnam, I suppose Okayama University has a very good relationship with Hue University. What kinds of characteristics are required as a researcher when you look back at researches in Hue?

Dr. Matsui: According to my experience for supervising Vietnam students and Japanese students, I think five factors are important in research activities. It is not only in Vietnam but also in Japan. First, the motivation is important. Some students originally have the high motivation. Such students voluntary well without coach....in research activities. Second, interest for knowledge is also important. Some of my students are very hungry for new methodologies, and when I teach them the new analytical methodologies, they try to try it by themselves and work without caring time. For those students with low interest and motivation, it is not easy to grow up their own interest and motivation. I need to force and carefully wonder them to work seriously. Sometimes we need to work from 4 AM