The School of Geography, ranked in the QS Top 100 Geography Departments globally, is a centre of excellence for geographic research and education.
UCD School of Geography has one of the largest undergraduate programmes in UCD, a vibrant graduate community and is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence in geography-specific and interdisciplinary research. Academic staff occupy major leadership positions in national and international organisations and deliver internationally recognised, academically rigorous undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in key areas of the discipline.
The School of Geography, UCD plays an important role in the project as the Lead Irish Partner in implementing of co-designed and co-taught joint-educational activities which will be embedded as core modules within current masters and undergraduate programmes at HANU and UCD.
Vietnam Ireland Bilateral Education Exchange (VIBE) is a meaningful project to support and enhancing collaborations in Teaching and Research on Development and the Environment from a Social Sciences Perspective; build Learning and Knowledge exchanges between Vietnam and Ireland. The program will enhance and continue to grow collaborative educational and research activities between the Faculty of International Studies, Hanoi University (HANU) and the School of Geography, University College Dublin (UCD). These activities will centre on a suite of innovative co-produced and co-taught joint educational initiatives and exchanges of instructors and students between our institutions. These activities foreground the study area of development and the environment through a social science and policy-oriented lens, in which our institutions have mutual expertise. The focus will be on developing students’ skillsets in key areas: field-based research project skills; applied geospatial skills, and the technological proficiencies required to examine and address challenges present by development and sustainability research. 
Ambassador Cait Moran, Embassy of Ireland and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Trao, President of Hanoi University
Minister Richard Bruton and Minister Phung Xuan Nha witnessed the launching of new collaboration project between Hanoi University and University College Dublin on teaching and research for 2017-2019, under the Vietnam Ireland Bilateral Education (VIBE) Exchange Programme, with funding from IrishAid.
