International funding
Indirect costs your Vietnamese partner cannot invoice
Most grant negotiations settle salaries and travel. The line that quietly breaks a partner's budget is the one covering everything not attached to an activity.
#collaboration
International funding
Co-writing and publishing
Revisions on a multi-author paper: who drives, and by when
Papers with partners rarely die from bad reviews. They die because nobody owned the revision and the resubmission window closed.
Conferences and networks
Meeting Vietnamese researchers at conferences: making it lead somewhere
Most conference contacts go nowhere for a predictable reason: nobody left with a specific next step.
Visas and logistics
Hosting a Vietnamese colleague: invitation letters and logistics
A late invitation letter is, in practice, a declined invitation. The paperwork takes longer than most hosts assume.