Joint programs implemented in BRICS

Network University
27 October 2015 RIA Novosti
The Network University will allow the interaction of universities in bilateral and multilateral
formats.

“Joint masters and postgraduate studies programs will be made possible through the creation
of a BRICS Network University,” this was announced by Deputy Minister of Education and
Science of the Russian Federation Alexander Klimov.

“The Network University has been designed as a broad initiative that will allow the
interaction of universities in bilateral and multilateral formats, primarily for the
implementation of joint masters and postgraduate studies programs,” Mr. Klimov said on
Tuesday at the opening of the BRICS Global University Summit.

Earlier it was reported that currently the BRICS Network University, the idea for which was
first announced two years ago at the meeting of Education Ministers of the BRICS countries,
in the future would become one of the main mechanisms for serious and rich interaction.

BRICS – is an informal interstate association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa. The total population of the BRICS countries – 2.83 billion people (42% of Earth’s
total).

First published in Russian by RIA Novosti.

BRICS to cooperate in introducing 5G

standard
29 October 2015 Lyudmila Alexandrova, TASS
The countries that are unhappy about the United States’ heavy influence on the Internet are
already racing each other in the development of 5G standards.

The BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are going to
cooperate in the introduction of ultrafast mobile Internet. As experts say, the 5G Internet is
not just new. It is ultrafast, capable of fundamentally changing the balance of force in the
field of technologies control. The United States — the 4G leader — is already worrying that
with the development of 5G it may lose its commanding position in the industry.

The BRICS countries clinched a deal on cooperation in the fifth generation communication
standard 5G in Moscow last week, when their communications ministers held their first
meeting. The man behind the idea of wider cooperation in the 5G sphere, microchip design
and equipment and software production is China’s Minister of Industry and Information