BRICS Project Lab

What is a participant supposed to cover in the interview essay?

Everything is simple: you need to tell about yourself and why you want to participate in the track you like.

What is the form of the essay which is to be prepared?

The participants record the interview in the form of a video of no more than 2 minutes, filmed horizontally, with clear sound (it’s important!).

What is included in the forum program?

The activities of the BRICS Youth Projects Laboratory are organized within 5 tracks; the work of everyone is supervised by an expert who guides the discussion of the participants, gives comments on the track’s topics and helps with the formation of the project. After all the discussions are over, the participants from each track come up with a project and defend it in front of the experts. The best projects are sent to relevant Russian departments (the Gorchakov Foundation, Rossotrudnichestvo, Rosmolodezh, the Russia-BRICS Project Youth Office and the BRICS NKI).

⚡BRICS PROJECT LAB is officially extending the registration period ❗UNTILL MARCH 15❗

Everyone is welcome to participate in one of the five tracks of the Lab ('Science, Technology, Innovation', 'Education', 'Economics', 'Healthcare', 'Cyber security in BRICS countries') in face-to-face or online format.

📎 The event will be held on April 6-8 in Russian and English, so everyone can join in, listen to the experts during the roundtable and their speeches, as well as create their own project, which after a successful defense before the experts will be sent to the department.

📢 Please remember that when selecting the country the participant would like to represent, any BRICS country may be entered, except the one of which the participant is a citizen.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Today we are going to tell you about the X — XII BRICS summits.

The X 10th BRICS Summit - held from 25-27 July 2018 in the South African city of Johannesburg. The tenth anniversary summit focused on economic cooperation with Africa, so several African heads of state were invited. At the end of the summit, the countries adopted a final declaration where they summarised their joint activities over the past decade and also reflected on their united approaches to the development of the association.

The XI BRICS summit was held on 13-14 November 2019 in Brazil under the slogan ⏪BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future⏩. The event discussed the development of the institutional framework of the Commonwealth, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation, and the development of business contacts.

The XII BRICS summit was held on 17 November 2020. During the meeting, which was held in video format due to the epidemiological situation, the leaders discussed the fight against coronavirus, the situation with international terrorism and drug trafficking, cybercrime and the terms of trade in the pandemic.

Today we want to tell you about the VI-IX BRICS summits.
The 6th BRICS summit was held on July 15-16, 2014 in Fortaleza (Brazil). At this summit, the establishment of the New development bank and the BRICS Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) was announced, the latter being designed to substitute the IMF. The CRA aimes at stabilising sharp exchange rate fluctuations and ensuring dollar liquidity.
The 7th BRICS summit took place on July 8-10, 2015 in Ufa (Russia). The BRICS New Development Bank and global economic problems were the focus of the discussion. Iran joined BRICS at the 7th summit as an observer.
The 8th BRICS Summit was held on October 15-16, 2016 in Goa (India). This time, the issue of strengthening the strategic partnership between the BRICS countries topped the agenda. The talks also touched upon the Syrian peace process.
The 9th BRICS Summit took place on September 4-5, 2017 in Xiamen (China). At this meeting the BRICS leaders made ot clear they were disposed to extend cooperation. The heads of Egypt, Tajikistan, Mexico and Thailand were also invited to the summit. Thus, more developing countries with shared interests were involved in the dialogue.

📍 Introducing the 'Information Security in BRICS Countries' track 📍

🌏 We all know that globalisation, through which innovative technologies spread across national borders, can be described as an essential milestone of the 21st century. Undoubtedly, information technology has an impact on all spheres of society, including the political sphere.

⏭ The BRICS Member States have recognised the crucial and positive role of the Internet in promoting economic, social and cultural development. In doing so, they pledged to continue to work together through existing mechanisms to ensure the safe, open, peaceful and shared use of ICTs on the basis of equitable participation of all states in the development and functioning of the Internet. The BRICS countries have been coordinating their views on the legal framework for information security for many years.

🖥 As a part of the 'Information Security' track, a form of case study championship is planned, where participants, with the help of experts in international information security, will be able to understand in a practical way such issues as:
🔻 implementing effective cybercrime response coordination and intensifying dialogue;
🔻 sharing approaches to security policy issues in the use of ICTs

Science, Technology, Innovation

In this track, participants are invited to analyse the BRICS countries' activities in the development of biotechnology.

Biotechnology is the process of applying living systems and organisms to practical human needs. Today, due to the technical process, biotechnology is used in various fields - industry, agriculture, medicine and others. The process of their application is very complex and is based on the achievements of modern biological science. However, the countries are actively involved in the development of the global biotechnology market.

The BRICS countries are now full-fledged participants of the global biotechnology race - they are actively developing and promoting new technical solutions in this field. They already account for a quarter of global patent applications for biotechnological inventions - fantastic progress, considering that 20 years ago this indicator did not even reach 4%.

Participants' tasks are to identify the role of biotechnology in global policy, the BRICS market place in biotechnology, create the BRICS Biotechnology Roadmap, and the Strategy for Personal Security in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.