Within the framework of the UEB Research and Sharing seminar series, the Vietnam Institute for Economic & Policy Research (VEPR) collaborated with the Faculty of Political Economy to organize a seminar with the theme of "Building a common research database in economic policy and management” on June 27, 2022.
For lecturers, students, and particularly students majoring
in economics, data plays an important role in creating a scientific theoretical
basis or an argument to prove a hypothesis in research and experiments.
Meanwhile, there is rarely a program to build a research database close to
lecturers, students to serve research activities. The seminar was an opportunity to
discuss VEPR's data sharing program with Faculties and Institutes under the
VNU-UEB, first of all with the Faculty of Political Economy in order to build a
common research database in the field of policy and economic management. This
is also an opportunity for lecturers, students to exchange their aspirations,
share difficulties and suggest ways to build a more practical data sharing
environment, closer to their wishes and needs regarding research activities.
Specifically, the seminar aimed to review and collect the
available data of VEPR and the Faculty of Political Economy according to
research fields. The review and collection results suggest the following
recommendations:
Firstly, it is necessary to review the
database from 2014 to present, including foreign databases and domestic
databases to serve as inputs for projects, serving the planning of data
exploitation.
Secondly, build a medium-term database to
2025 and long-term to 2030, including:
• Database is built by VEPR, Faculties and Institutes.
• Database needs to be purchased.
• Database is developed in collaboration with domestic and
foreign partners.
Thirdly, the database needs to be regularly
reviewed and shared to serve the research activities of VEPR, faculties,
institutes as well as lecturers, students; serving scientific research
competitions within VNU-UEB.
Fourthly, Faculties and Institutes need to
exchange more mechanisms to cooperate and share joint data in the coming
period.
Fifthly, support and call for data
contributions from lecturers, researchers, and students to diversify and
strengthen the database. This will be a useful resource to serve the study and
research at the VNU-UEB.