BRICS countries universities will prepare professionals together

     In April 2015, Russia for the second time entered the rights of the BRICS chairman, an informal association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS summit in Ufa will become the central event of the Russian presidency. The event will be held on the 8-9 July, where the partner-countries representatives will discuss the economic partnership and the roadmap for investment cooperation.

    Work on the joint development of science and education has already begun: in March, the governments of the group countries signed a memorandum of cooperation in this area and decided to create the Universities League and the Network BRICS University. According to the current concept, the cooperation will be based not on the state level but on the level f higher education institutions: they themselves will initiate the creation of international ducational and research projects, conduct student exchange and seek assistance from foreign counterparts.   

    A consortium of the BRICS countries universities will help to maintain a balanced joint personnel training in priority fields. However, the current collaboration with Chinese universities is not limited to academic students’ exchange. In the Nanjing University and ITMO University the mirror laboratories are created, where the scientific staff conduct their research in collaboration; the joint research projects are run as well as educational programs for information technologies and optical design.

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