This information was announced by Nguyen Trung Kien, SCOVA chairman, at a press conference in Ha Noi, on July 3.
Running from July 13 - 26, the 2025 camp’s itinerary includes visits to historic and cultural sites like Cu Chi Tunnels, Kon Tum Prison Relic Site, and Quang Tri Martyrs’ Monument.
Through this year’s theme “Together, let's write the Next Chapter of Peace”, we hope to inspire young people to carry forward Viet Nam’s legacy of peace while contributing to the country’s future development, Kien said.
The annual event aims to offer a meaningful platform for young overseas Vietnamese to explore their homeland, deepen cultural connection, and strengthen ties with domestic peers.
A new highlight of the Viet Nam Summer Camp 2025 is that, for the first time, the event will be inaugurated in Buon Ma Thuot City — a region in the Central Highlands renowned for its distinctive culture and the diverse lifestyles of ethnic communities. The delegates will witness the region’s robust development and gain insights into the economic potential of both the local area and the country as a whole.
Moreover, this is also the first time that the Viet Nam Summer Camp delegation will engage in exchanges with officers and soldiers of the Viet Nam Department of Peacekeeping Operations under the Ministry of National Defence.
At the event, SCOVA Chairman Nguyen Trung Kien highlighted the National Assembly’s recent adoption of the Law on amendments and supplements to several articles of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality, and the Law on Science – Technology and Innovation which create favourable conditions for OV to invest, do business, and contribute their expertise to national development.
A key highlight of the revised nationality law is that it relaxes requirements for OV and their descendants with significant contributions to the Fatherland building and safeguarding to obtain the Vietnamese citizenship without proving residency, language proficiency, and financial guarantees. They could submit applications directly through Vietnamese diplomatic missions abroad.
The official stated that the law demonstrates a breakthrough in the Party and State’s policies, removing bottlenecks and opening up opportunities for the community of six million OV to be back to their roots and contribute to their homeland.
Meanwhile, the Law on Science – Technology and Innovation, Kien said, one of the most significant reforms promotes the commercialisation of research results and protection of technology transfer modes. The law grants research institutions ownership or usage rights to their innovations without requiring approval from superior agencies.
Kien stressed that the committee will continue working with relevant ministries to concretise these reforms and ensure they are aligned with other legal regulations. He underscored that contributions from abroad are not limited to physically returning to Viet Nam but remote ones, including experience exchange, networking, and technology transfer, are valuable.
Viet Nam Summer Camp is an annual programme organised by the SCOVA, dedicated to young overseas Vietnamese youth and students.
It serves as a platform for young overseas Vietnamese delegates to learn more about their homeland, connect and interact, and strengthen solidarity among themselves and with young people in Viet Nam. Through its meaningful activities, the summer camp helps ignite a love for the homeland and fosters a sense of pride and responsibility in continuing the nation’s heroic traditions within the overseas Vietnamese community, especially among the younger generations.
Nguyen Trung Kien,
Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
