During the Global Digital Forum, the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI) held working meetings with international partners to reinforce cooperation and discuss further interaction: prospects for joint projects in digital technologies, artificial intelligence, cyber-security, telecommunications and AR/VR; expansion of academic mobility, including exchanges of students, lecturers and researchers; and the creation of joint educational programmes and research laboratories.

Within the Forum twelve Memoranda of Understanding were signed with new partners from Ethiopia, Cuba, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Vietnam and Belarus.

The purpose of these agreements is to establish mutually beneficial collaboration in higher education, science and culture and to raise the level of teaching, methodological and research work on both sides. Key goals include:

●      exchanging experience and best practices;

●      developing joint study programmes in various fields, including cyber-security and AI;

●      participating in scientific conferences and joint research;

●      exchanging faculty and students;

●      arranging internships for students in partner countries.

“Nizhny Novgorod has truly become an international capital—an international educational capital, and that is especially gratifying for us as a university. In addition to several agreements with foreign universities, we have partnered with one of the leading universities in Nizhny Novgorod— Dobrolyubov State Linguistic University.  We hope that this alliance between a leading technical university and one of the foremost humanities universities will bear fruit. Our joint efforts will help create a safer and more ethical environment for the use of artificial intelligence and will open new horizons for collaborative research and the development of ethical standards in AI—matters that are particularly relevant amid rapid technological progress,” — Sergey Erokhin, Rector of MTUCI.