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FPT University (FPTU) regularly hosts public lectures and community educational events on its campuses and on online platforms operated by the University. These events are open to the general public, including teachers, students, parents and other members of the community, and are offered entirely free of charge.<\/p>\n
1. Free Public Lectures and Training Sessions on Artificial Intelligence and STEM Hosted by FPTU, Open to Teachers, Students and the Wider Community<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Free STEM and artificial intelligence training for upper secondary teachers on FPTU campuses<\/strong><\/h4>\n
A single teacher equipped with new knowledge can change how generations of students learn. With this in mind, FPTU launched the “STEM Education in the AI Era” programme in June 2024 to bring STEM and artificial intelligence education to upper secondary schools, so that students in cities and provinces alike can learn technology in a modern way.<\/p>\n
On 29-30 March 2025, FPTU held two training sessions on its campuses in Ho Chi Minh City and Quy Nhon for more than 500 teachers from over 80 schools in six provinces. Working alongside FPTU lecturers, teachers assembled and programmed devices themselves, covering artificial intelligence in teaching, Teachable Machine, Micro:bit, data visualisation with Python, Raspberry Pi cars and MIT App Inventor. Teachers took part free of charge, and nearly 100 STEM kits were donated to their schools. By April 2025, the programme had trained more than 5,000 teachers free of charge.<\/p>\n
This is a community educational event in the full sense: hosted by the University, open for registration to every teacher in the area and free of charge. FPTU shared not only knowledge but also equipment, so that teachers could continue hands-on teaching after returning to their schools. As a result, the impact of the two days did not stop with 500 teachers; it reached students in more than 80 schools and helped narrow the gap in access to technology between localities.<\/p>\nHigh school teachers assemble and programme STEM devices at FPTU\u2019s free training event in 2025<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Free online public lecture series “Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning – Creating Images and Videos”<\/b><\/h4>\n
In the age of artificial intelligence, teachers\u2019 digital skills directly shape how their students learn. The public lecture series “Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning – Creating Images and Videos”, part of the “FPT University for the Community” project, aims to help teachers and students across Vietnam master generative artificial intelligence tools and use them creatively and responsibly in teaching and learning.<\/p>\n
The first run took place from 6 to 14 October 2025, with three evening sessions on Zoom taught by FPTU lecturers and offered completely free of charge. Each session led to a concrete product: writing prompts and creating illustrations, editing images, and producing videos with virtual presenters using tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Canva. More than 3,000 teachers and students joined the first session. In response to demand, FPTU continued to open new cohorts, reaching the fifth and sixth cohorts by April 2026.<\/p>\n
These are public lectures in the truest sense: open to anyone, with no entry requirements and no tuition fees, and delivered by FPTU lecturers on the University\u2019s online platform. Evening, online delivery removes the barriers of distance and time, so teachers in remote areas can also benefit from university expertise. What participants learn can be applied immediately; one chemistry teacher, for example, used the tools to simulate laboratory equipment. By continuing to open new cohorts, FPTU has turned the series into a lasting source of lifelong learning for teachers.<\/p>\nTeachers and students across Vietnam join the free online lecture series “AI in Teaching and Learning – Creating Images and Videos with AI” in October 2025<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Free Digital Skills Sessions in Local Communities: FPTU Students Train Residents and Local Officials in Online Public Services, Internet Safety and AI<\/strong><\/h4>\n
FPTU also brings its free training on artificial intelligence and digital skills to wards and communes, for people who rarely attend university events: residents, neighbourhood heads and local officials. In 2025-2026, 211 FPTU students hosted such sessions with local authorities in five localities.<\/p>\nFPTU students and lecturers provide free digital skills training for local residents and public officials<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Son Tay Ward, Hanoi (spring 2026, 50 students). <\/strong>As part of the ward\u2019s digital transformation programme, FPTU held 120 community sessions, free of charge and open to every resident, with more than 6,500 participations. More than 5,800 residents learned about internet safety and the use of AI in daily life, and students helped residents install digital applications more than 6,500 times, complete 2,192 public service applications and submit 5,822 administrative procedures online, reaching more than 15,600 households. Held in residents\u2019 own neighbourhoods, the sessions worked as public lectures that anyone in the ward could join, turning a digital transformation target into practical skills for everyday life.<\/p>\n
Quang Ninh Province (6 January – 5 April 2026, 74 students). <\/strong>Working at 32 agencies and localities across nearly 30 communes, wards and special zones, students showed officials, civil servants and residents how to use online public services such as VNeID and digital signatures. On Co To Island, they helped the local Farmers\u2019 Association host a “B\u00ecnh d\u00e2n h\u1ecdc v\u1ee5 s\u1ed1” (digital literacy for all) event on VNeID, eTax Mobile, digital banking and everyday AI tools. Reaching as far as an island special zone, the programme shows that FPTU\u2019s public training is not limited to places near its campuses.<\/p>\n
Van Dinh Commune, Hanoi (from May 2026, 43 students). <\/strong>Under a memorandum of understanding between the commune and FPTU, students were assigned to help residents use online public services, VNeID, iHanoi and digital payments, and to teach safe internet use in local schools. The memorandum gives this support a formal, longer-term basis, extending the model that FPTU first applied in Son Tay and Quang Ninh.<\/p>\n
Da Nang (18\u201325 August 2025, 38 students). <\/strong>As part of a group of 105 IT student volunteers sent to 44 wards and communes after the reorganisation of local government, FPTU Da Nang students guided officials in using administrative software and digital signatures, and helped residents at public service centres submit procedures online and install VNeID and Danang Smart City. Coming just as the new local government model began operating, the support helped officials and residents adapt to new digital procedures where they needed them most.<\/p>\n
FPTU Ho Chi Minh City campus.<\/strong> Over the past three years, supporting digital transformation in local government agencies has become a regular activity at FPTU\u2019s Ho Chi Minh City campus, involving hundreds of student participations from Software Engineering, Information Technology and Information Security programmes. These activities help local authorities improve digital services and administrative processes.<\/p>\n
Together, these sessions show FPTU hosting free community educational events beyond its campuses, in partnership with local authorities, so that the knowledge of the University reaches people who may never visit it.<\/p>\n
2. Free Learning and Experience Events on FPTU Campuses for the Community<\/b><\/h3>\n
FPTU GenAI Day 2025: a community festival on artificial intelligence in Da Nang<\/b><\/h4>\n
For artificial intelligence to truly serve people, communities need to understand it and use it well. FPTU GenAI Day 2025 was organised to build public understanding of artificial intelligence among students and residents of Central Vietnam, helping them engage with the technology actively and responsibly.<\/p>\n
On 22\u201323 February 2025, FPTU opened its Da Nang campus free of charge to students, teachers, businesses and technology enthusiasts, welcoming around 4,000 visits, including 1,800 upper secondary students. At the GenAI technology exhibition, visitors tried solutions from technology companies and FPTU research teams, from Drone Soccer and facial recognition to applications of artificial intelligence in education, healthcare and finance. Specialist seminars explored artificial intelligence in Youth Union work at upper secondary schools and in start-ups, while training classes taught students from Hue, Da Nang and Quang Nam to use artificial intelligence effectively and responsibly.<\/p>\n
For two days, FPTU turned its campus into an open learning space: anyone interested could come, take part free of charge and learn directly from experts. Each group found content suited to its needs. Students learned to use the tools, teachers and Youth Union officers explored ways to bring artificial intelligence into schools, and young people looked for start-up ideas. By bringing new technology to Central Vietnam, the event allowed local residents to access it without travelling to the major cities.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nUpper secondary students try artificial intelligence applications at FPTU GenAI Day 2025 on FPTU\u2019s Da Nang campus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
On-campus orientation and technology experience events for upper secondary students and parents<\/b><\/h4>\n
The right choice of study can shape an entire career. FPTU\u2019s summer events aim to ensure that every student, whatever their family background, has enough information to make study decisions that match their abilities and aspirations.<\/p>\n
In summer 2025, FPTU held a series of free events on its campuses: the “Understand Correctly \u2013 Decide Correctly” workshops in Ho Chi Minh City on 13 July, including a session dedicated to parents, and in Quy Nhon on 19\u201320 July, followed by FPTU Fest 2025 on 3 August on the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City campuses. Students and parents toured the campuses, experienced FPTU\u2019s learning model, received guidance on choosing fields of study, talked with lecturers and alumni, and tried virtual reality, augmented reality and Internet of Things technologies.<\/p>\n
The events were held on campus, open to every student and parent, free of charge and with no requirement to enrol at FPTU. For families with few sources of information about higher education, the chance to ask lecturers and alumni directly helps close the information gap. With parents taking part, the whole family receives the same information, and the choice of a field of study becomes an informed decision rather than a guess.<\/p>\nStudents and families from across the region gather on FPTU\u2019s campus for a free summer experience event, 2025<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
3. Free Nationwide Academic Competitions Hosted by FPTU, Widening Lifelong Learning Opportunities for Students across the Country<\/b><\/h3>\n
FPTU AI & Robotics Challenge 2025: free artificial intelligence and robotics training and competition for upper secondary students<\/b><\/h4>\n
FPTU AI & Robotics Challenge 2025 aims to prepare young people to master technology and to use it to address the country\u2019s challenges. The competition follows a simple principle, training first and competition second, so that even students who have never programmed can take part.<\/p>\n
Launched in early April 2025, the programme received nearly 800 team registrations in just over three weeks. Students first attended online training from 5 to 14 May, and nearly 3,600 students then competed in the artificial intelligence round on 31 May\u20131 June on FPTU\u2019s five campuses. The 220 strongest teams joined five robotics workshops before the regional rounds from 16 June to 10 July, which were based on sustainable agriculture and played in an alliance format, requiring teams to cooperate as well as compete. Fifty teams reached the national final on 2\u20133 August 2025. Entry was free of charge, and FPTU covered meals and accommodation for the finalist teams.<\/p>\n
Although framed as a competition, FARC 2025 was in effect a free public learning programme hosted by FPTU: any upper secondary student could register, receive training before competing and practise on the University\u2019s campuses. By covering meals and accommodation, FPTU ensured that students from distant provinces did not have to withdraw for financial reasons. The sustainable agriculture theme showed students how technology can help solve practical problems facing the country.<\/p>\nHigh school students take part in FPTU AI & Robotics Challenge 2025<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
AI Young Guru: a free nationwide artificial intelligence competition for upper secondary and vocational students<\/b><\/h4>\n
AI Young Guru, launched by FPTU on 8 January 2026 under the patronage of the Ministry of Education and Training and with professional endorsement from the Ministry of Science and Technology, is a nationwide competition for upper secondary and vocational students. Entry is free, and the competition aims at more than finding winners. It sets out to teach students to use artificial intelligence effectively, responsibly and with integrity, and to apply it to real problems in study, work and daily life.<\/p>\n
Learning is built into every stage. Before submitting their first ideas, all contestants had to complete at least three free online courses developed by FPTU, so every participant gained a foundation in artificial intelligence whether or not they advanced. In Round 1 (January-February 2026), teams proposed solutions using freely available tools. The 150 strongest teams then solved practical challenges in a three-hour in-person round, held simultaneously on FPTU\u2019s five campuses in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho.<\/p>\n
The competition attracted 26,037 students from 1,687 schools in 34 provinces and cities. Two decisions explain this reach. Opening the competition to vocational students brought them into a national artificial intelligence competition alongside upper secondary students. Holding the in-person round on five campuses across the North, Centre and South allowed students to compete close to home rather than travel to a single venue. In this way, FPTU\u2019s campuses served as regional learning hubs where students from many localities practised artificial intelligence on real problems.<\/p>\nFPTU AI Young Guru: Free AI learning and competition for upper secondary and vocational students<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
All the events presented above were hosted by FPTU on its campuses or its own online platforms, were open to the general public and were free of charge. Because cost was not a barrier, teachers, students, parents and other members of the community from many localities could access new knowledge in artificial intelligence and technology. Through these events, FPTU expands lifelong learning opportunities for the community and supports quality and equitable education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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