Professor Nguyen Dang Hung to be awarded the Order of the Crown’s Grand Officer

Brussels (VNA) – An overseas Vietnamese living in Belgium , Professor Nguyen
Dang Hung will be awarded the Order of the Crown’s Grand Officer by King Albert II
of Belgium .

Prof. Hung is the only Asian among the 30 people to be honoured this time.

The Order of the Crown is an award to honour individuals who have made
distinguished artistic, literary or scientific achievements, or for commercial or
industrial services in Belgium or Africa .

This is the second time Prof. Hung has received the Belgian royal order. He was
presented the order in 1999 by King Leopold II.

Prof. Hung, now retired, spent many years working as a coordinator of several
cooperation programmes between European and Vietnamese universities, including the
European Master in Mechanics of Constructions (EMMC) at Ho Chi Minh University of
Technology and the Modelisation and Computation in Mechanics of Continuum, (MCMC) at
Hanoi University of Technology.

He was a member of the Steering and Coordinating Committee for the Doctorate
Degree Education in Technical Study in Europe Project funded by the Vietnamese
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