New Delhi, Apr 09: India and France have decided to establish a "Cyber University" to exchange information in the fields of education, training, transfer of technology and research. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed last night by Ravi Mathur, joint secretary in the Human Resource Development ministry and Daniel Vitry, Director of International Relations, ministry for youth, national education and research, France, an official release said. The idea of establishing this university was first mooted by the French ministry of education during the visit of French delegation to India in 1999. For the first phase, some disciplines have been identified for development of content and delivery of instruction to students through cyber mode. These are applied mathematics, information technology, computer engineering, design engineering, aeronautical engineering, control engineering, management, environment, teaching of French and Hindi languages.

The learning resource material would be developed jointly by Indian and French institutions.