Located in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, with a superficie of 6025 km2, Binh Dinh has 1 provincial city (Quy Nhon), which is also its capital, and 10 districts. Quy Nhon city is situated in the south-east of the province with a total area of 284,28 km2 and a population of about 284 000 people (data in 2014). The topography of Quy Nhon is diversified with mountains, hills, lagoons, shorelines, peninsulas, islands, rivers, lakes, forest and lowlands. The city borders the East Sea along its 72 km coastline.

Since some decades, the economic activities of the city, based on the agriculture and the fishing, has been extended to furniture manufacturing, granite and wood processing as well as tourism and service industries. In the other hand, for the stable development policies and objectives of the province, Science and Education has always been a priority to Binh Dinh’s authorities, who aim at making Quy Nhon, a reference destination of Science and Education not only at national level but also at international one. It is against this background that Prof. Tran Thanh Van created ICISE in 2013. Besides, an Explora Science Center composed of a planetarium (the first one in Vietnam) and an exploratorium is also expected to welcome the public in a very near future. Located within a few minutes walk from ICISE, the Explora Science Center is part of a project funded by the Vietnamese government and realized under the scientific advise of the Rencontres du Vietnam.

As regard to education system, Quy Nhon has one public university, many colleges, secondary and primary schools. For the academic year 2015-2016, Quy Nhon University has trained 15000 students in a large array of disciplines: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, informatics, medicine, technology and industry as well as history and geography.

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