Upon the conference “GRUTTEE 2020” (Rennes, France), the leader of BRICS project Alexey Volkov visited Université de Rennes 1 and had a meeting with President of European Membrane Society Prof. Anthony Szymcyk to share the latest results of the project and to further actions to strength scientific cooperation between BRICS partners and European membranologists in the area of wastewater treatment and recovery of valuable components.