2026 AUN-VNUHCM Summer Camp
In Viet Nam for the 2026 AUN-VNUHCM Summer Camp
Ms. Kheng Kanika, a second-year student of the Department of Automation & Supply Chain Systems Engineering, is one of four RUPPers taking part in the 2026 AUN-VNUHCM Summer Camp, a two-week programme hosted by Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) from 19 July to 1 August 2026, under the theme Towards Sustainable Development.
An SCA student among the four RUPPers in Ho Chi Minh City
We are proud to share that Ms. Kheng Kanika, a second-year student of the Department of Automation & Supply Chain Systems Engineering (SCA), has successfully secured her participation in the 2026 AUN-VNUHCM Summer Camp, and is now in Viet Nam taking part in it.
The camp is hosted by Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) under the ASEAN University Network (AUN), and runs for two weeks — 19 July to 1 August 2026 — across Ho Chi Minh City and An Giang Province. Its theme this year is Towards Sustainable Development, framed around the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Kheng Kanika travelled with three fellow RUPPers — Mr. Eng Soeunphirak of the Department of Data Science and Engineering, Ms. Sun Sokanich of the Department of Tourism, and Mr. Try Sochetra of the Department of International Business Management.
Our sincere appreciation and warmest regards to all four RUPP participants. We wish them an inspiring and empowering experience — one that fills their hearts with joy and hope, and that they carry back to Phnom Penh.
What two weeks at VNUHCM look like
The AUN-VNUHCM Summer Camp is a short residential programme in the AUN Summer Camps series — the ASEAN University Network’s way of putting undergraduates from its member universities on one campus for a concentrated stretch of study and shared work. The 2026 edition is hosted by Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City under the theme Towards Sustainable Development, and splits its two weeks between the city campus and field visits in An Giang Province.
Sustainable development is a supply chain problem long before it is a policy one — and Viet Nam, Cambodia’s neighbour and one of its largest trading partners, is the nearest place to see that at full scale. Two weeks inside it is worth a semester of describing it.
Ms. Kheng Kanika, second-year SCA
Kheng Kanika is the Department of Automation & Supply Chain Systems Engineering’s representative in cohort 4, and she reaches the camp at the mid-point of the degree — second year, with the core engineering and supply chain subjects behind her and the specialisation years still ahead. That is the useful moment to travel: far enough in to recognise what is being shown, early enough for it to change what comes next.
A camp on sustainable development sits squarely on her subject. Sustainability in a supply chain is not a slogan but a set of measurable things — how far goods move, how much of a shipment is empty space, what happens to what is left over, and who carries the cost of each. Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta province of An Giang put all of it within a day’s travel of one another.
She also spends the fortnight in cross-university teams with students from across the region. For an engineer, that is the part of the programme no classroom substitutes for: the same problem, argued through by people whose countries have already solved it differently.
Four students, four departments
Key details
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Programme | 2026 AUN-VNUHCM Summer Camp |
| Theme | Towards Sustainable Development |
| Part of | AUN Summer Camps — ASEAN University Network |
| ASCSE participant | Ms. Kheng Kanika |
| Year & department | Second year · Department of Automation & Supply Chain Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering |
| Host institution | Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) |
| Location | Ho Chi Minh City and An Giang Province, Viet Nam |
| Dates | 19 July – 1 August 2026 · two weeks — under way at the time of publication |
| Fellow RUPP participants | Mr. Eng Soeunphirak (Data Science and Engineering) · Ms. Sun Sokanich (Tourism) · Mr. Try Sochetra (International Business Management) |
| Announcement | t.me/iroffice_rupp — RUPP International Relations Office |
“Our sincere appreciation and warmest regards to our students taking part in these two weeks in Viet Nam. We wish them an inspiring and empowering experience that fills their hearts with joy and hope.”