08/07/2026
Arriane Mae Juliane 👏👏👏
LOOK | BETU-CTU partnership delivers first major onsite academic collaboration with 11 student presenters in Vietnam
Barely eight months after formalizing the partnership, Cebu Technological University (CTU) and Binh Duong Economics and Technology University (BETU), Vietnam, are showing the first mileage, as the alliance sends 11 student researchers to the bespoke platform.
Their papers span education, digital communication, artificial intelligence, tourism, hospitality, environmental science, agriculture, public health, and other interdisciplinary fields, reflecting CTU's robust undergraduate research ecosystem.
Headlining CTU's participation is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Collin Garrido who has been fully funded by BETU for his speakership at the event, as well as a lectureship on the 10th.
Alongside Dr. Garrido are Assoc. Prof. Dr. Angen Mae Charcos and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adelliosa Menchavez, who are both attending the conference and lecturing at the same time.
The delegation from Argao, Barili, Carmen, Danao, Daanbantayan and Tuburan departed Cebu at 1:00 a.m. today for Ho Chi Minh. The 2-day schedule is tight for a series of lectures and a conference on the 10th and 11th, respectively, before the group heads home on the 12th.
CTU is underwriting the students’ airfare, while BETU is providing host support through accommodation, meals, local transportation, and other in-country arrangements.
The shared funding model reflects the institutions' collective resolve to move beyond signed agreements toward enduring collaboration in research, mobility, and academic exchange.
Daanbantayan students’ presence at the event speaks to the campus administrators’ commitment to global identitarianism through research, as Christel John Retiza, Arianne Mae Juliane and Charish Coyoca constitute the second batch of outbound academic mobility participants next to the faculty members sent to Turkey in November of last year.
