The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), a 2.6 m wide field imager built by the Naples Observatory for Cerro Paranal, is now at a few months from its completion. This seminar is meant to briefly review the project, to account for its current status, to anticipates the calendar of the future milestones up to the first light, and to present the scientific programs for the observing time guaranteed to the INAF-OAC by ESO for the procurement of the telescope.