varanasi in the brics countries the banaras hindu university bhu would be one of the two universities at the international level that would coordinate and lead the activities in the areas of energy economics energy markets energy policy and security along with higher school of economics moscow ussr the bhu vicechancellor prof gc tripathi took part in the threeday brics conference held at ekaterinburg russia from april 6 to 9 according to bhu spokesperson rajesh singh the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa have arrived at an agreement at the government level to cooperate in the field of education in a big way during the conference it was decided to create project teams in some fields for multipartner cooperation by june 1 2016 the identified themes included energy economics energy markets energy policy and security renewable autonomous energetics technology equipment systems nanomaterials and metamaterials for energetics electrical and heat power engineering nuclear power engineering and nuclear safety smart grids distributed generation and global energy interconnections energy efficiency power saving green technologies petroleum engineering clean coal and gas to liquid fuel technologies and neutronsynchrotron infrastructurethe brics network university has come into existence in this forum association of bhu with this network university is a landmark achievement in the universitys centennial year academic collaboration among the identified universities of the member countries would be possible through the bricsnu which would operate through teaching research student and faculty exchange and research collaborationshe said that all the areas in which bhu submitted proposals have been accepted after detailed discussions and are included in the list the event is historic because by signing of agreement by the vicechancellor the brics network university has now become functional of which bhu is a part since its inception