On the afternoon of June 17, 2021, at the headquarters of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Academy), No. 1 Lieu Giai, Ba Dinh, Hanoi solemnly held the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the Institute of European Studies (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences) and the Friedrich Naumann organization (Germany) for the period 2021-2024.

On the afternoon of February 25th, 2021, at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, AssocProf. Dr. Bui Nhat Quang, President of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) had a meeting with Mr. Akbar Nazari, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Vietnam.

With the consent of the leaders of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VAST), in the morning of November 12, 2020, at the headquarters No. 1 Lieu Giai, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, the Indian Research Institute and Southwest Asia under the Academy organizes an international seminar with the theme "India-China strategic competition and impacts on countries" to identify the causes, nature, content and methods of India-China strategic competition; impacts of competition for countries, thereby forecasting possible scenarios, thereby giving implications for Vietnam in policy making with related countries.