(VOVworld) – More than 1600 Vietnamese students received the Odon Vallet scholarships at a ceremony in Hanoi on Saturday. The scholarships are worth nearly 400 USD per student and 600 USD per researcher, totaling 600,000 USD in value.

The scholarships have been awarded biannually for the past 13 years with the aim of encouraging young Vietnamese students to overcome any challenges and achieve scholastic success. Odon Vallet, who inherited 100 million Euros from his late father, is a lecturer at France’s famous Sorbonne University. He is also a renowned philosophical writer, commenting on religious conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia for prestigious Paris newspapers and appearing as an expert on French Television.