Vietnam-German scientific collaboration on marine investigation since 1996 has been achieved very good results and it can be served as a good example in international cooperation for Eastern Vietnam Sea research. The collaboration was supported by high ranking agreements between Viet Nam and Germany. These agreements have played an important legal role to accelerate efforts of scientists of two countries to carry out their joint projects on Eastern Vietnam Sea researches. In the framework of Vietnam MOST (Ministry of Science and technology) and German BMBF (Ministry of Education and Research) agreement, a joint project "Holocene Coastal Evolution, Sea-Level Fluctuations, Terrigenous Sedimentation and Sediment Dynamics on the Continental Shelf between the Mekong Delta and Nha Trang, SE- Vietnam". The counterparts are Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (IMGG) from Viet Nam and Kiel University (CAU) from Germany. The joint project had been implemented in two phases: the phase I (2003-2006) and phase II (2006-2009). - Investigations in the field of coastal and marine geology within the joint German-Vietnamese project aim to (i) reconstruct the spatial-temporal history of the hitherto, only sparsely known as coastal evolution in SE.Vietnam during the Holocene period
(ii) to analyses modern coastal and shelf dynamics
and (iii) to compare the Holocene coastal evolution with the present coastal processes in order to (iv) evidence and estimate actual changes in the coastal depositional system.