Set up in 2007 by the ABB Group to honor our former chairman and CEO Jürgen Dormann, the JDF (Jürgen Dormann Foundation) aims at sponsoring brilliant students of academic institutions across the globe who come from disadvantaged background, facilitating their study and helping them to achieve their dream in pursuing technical innovation.
This is the third year this program is implemented in Vietnam with scholarship offered to the HUST. Two students, Nguyen The Anh and Luu Van Tac, both 3rd year students from HUST's Electrical School of Engineering have been selected among a big number of applicants.
The scholarship values at VND 18,000,000 for a student in his first year of selection. It will also cover a fee of VND 6,000,000 for each of them for computer equipment. Students will continue receiving the scholarship every year until their graduation subject on their good study scores. During the learning process, they will also be provided with help and vocational guidance by ABB mentors in Vietnam. In addition to this, they will have the opportunity to participate in international networking events sponsored by the ABB Group.
Speaking at the ceremony, the newly-awarded scholars expressed their happiness and promised to achieve the highest results in their study. With the hope to become excellent engineers in electrical and automation field, they also nuture a dream that they will be able to contribute to the development of Vietnam's industry in the future.
On behalf of Electrical School of Engineering as well as HUST, Professor Nguyen Xuan Hoang Viet thanked ABB for continuous cooperation and support extended to HUST for the past years and wished the cooperation and friendship will further develop in the future.
The next scholarship program for the year 2013 - 2014 has already commenced this March and ABB encourages large number of students, especially female students to apply to this program.
