On March 8-10, 2025, a TVSEP team (Trung Thanh Nguyen, Javier Revilla Diez, Anna Gasten, Nguyet Tran, Tri Anh Nguyen, Gokul Paudel, Ole Lück and Christiane Joerk (German Research Foundation)) travelled to the Dak Lak Province where the TVSEP survey has been implemented since 2007. On March 9, the team, together with Prof. Dr. Le Duc Niem, Vice President, Dr. Nguyen Trinh Thanh Nguyen, International Department, and MSc. Xuan Thanh Do, Lecturer, Tay Nguyen University, visited several rural households in the project’s study areas. The direct exchange with the households provides important insights on their livelihoods.
On March 10, the TVSEP team visited Tay Nguyen University. They presented the project, its objectives, timeline and detailed content of the panel surveys. The opportunities of doing research with the long-term dataset were outlined. It was agreed to intensify the research cooperation in the context of the TVSEP project with the objective of promoting the use of TVSEP data in Vietnam.
