Panasonic awarded 15 scholarships to talented students nationwide in 2020

Hanoi, Vietnam 25 September 2020 - Panasonic Vietnam organized the Panasonic Scholarship 2020 award ceremony at Panasonic Risupia Vietnam. This year, the program grants 15 scholarships worth 30,000,000 VND to excellent students studying full time at all universities across the country. After 16 years of implementation, the total value of the scholarships awarded in Vietnam is more than 52 billion VND.

New Panasonic scholars 2020

Panasonic Scholarship is an annual program of Panasonic, accompanying Vietnamese students since 2004, with various forms of support and development activities. The scholarship is aimed to support talented students who are constantly striving to improve themselves and contributing to the development of society. In the journey of 16 years, the program has awarded nearly 100 scholarships with a total value of more than 52 billion VND, among whom, 25 students are still receiving scholarships.

This year, the Panasonic 2020 Scholarship Program officially started in April 2020 with the expansion to students of all majors and universities across the country. Besides financial support, Panasonic scholarship students will also be given opportunity to develop soft skills through various training sessions or gain access to cutting-edge technology and professional working environments through internship at Panasonic Vietnam Group companies.

The program received high attention from students nationwide. The Office of Panasonic Scholarship in Vietnam has received a new record of up to 400 applicants from nearly 30 Universities nationwide.

Panasonic Scholarship 2020 award ceremony was held in a polite but friendly atmosphere with the participation of representatives from schools and all awarded students. In the framework of the program, a variety of interactive team-building activities also created a useful playground for elite students to exchange with each other.

Students are delighted to receive the Panasonic Scholarship 2020

Giving a speech at the Ceremony, the representative of University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University highly appreciated Panasonic’s support to students in difficult circumstances who got profoundly affected by COVID-19 pandemic and strongly welcome Panasonic to nurture young talents, encouraging them to never stop "Challenging and Changing" for “Live Your Best”.

Besides annual Panasonic scholarship program, Panasonic Vietnam has been implementing various activities for social contribution in the field of education and human resources development such as: soft-skill training sessions for awarded students, collaboration with universities to provide soft-skills training for students, cooperation in training and recruitment with universities of science and technology majors.

Exciting team-building activities under program framework

In line with the Founder Konosuke Matsushita’s "People Before Product" philosophy over the past 100 years, Panasonic Vietnam is constantly innovating with the vision to actively contribute to improving the quality of human resources, realizing sustainable development goals and promoting social contribution activities for “Live Your Best ".