MICA Institute
MICA: Multimedia, Information, Communication & Applications is an international research institute affiliated to the Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam. Aims. Its purpose is to contribute to the development of information technology in Vietnam. Affiliations. MICA is affiliated to the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, to the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and to the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP). History. MICA was officially created in 2002. The project of founding a high-level research centre in communication technology in Hanoi dates back to several years earlier. This project was realized through the  implication of Vietnamese and French government institutions, and of the two universities to which MICA is affiliated. In 2006, MICA was granted the status of Unité Mixte Internationale (UMI) by CNRS. In 2011, MICA acquired the status of Institute within the Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Since then, its full name has been "International Research Institute MICA, HUST – CNRS/UMI-2954 – Grenoble INP, Hanoi University of Science and Technology." Organization. The MICA Institute consists of