Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 18: India will host five events in 2022, as approved by the BRICS Science Technology Innovation (STI) Steering Committee during its 15th meeting on January 17, the Union Science and Technology Ministry said on Tuesday.
The meeting was held virtually, and the agenda of BRICS STI activities and planned deliverables were addressed, according to the official release. According to the BRICS calendar, a series of sectoral events and meetings, including Ministerial level and the BRICS Summit, will be held throughout the year.
Representatives from BRICS scientific ministries and foreign missions attended the BRICS STI Steering Committee meeting. During the meeting, India was represented by Sanjeev Kumar Varshney, Advisor and Head International Cooperation, Department of Science and Technology.
A total of 25 events are planned, with India hosting five of them. DPIIT is the lead agency for the BRICS Startup Forum and the construction of an innovation Knowledge Hub.
The BRICS Young Scientist Conclave will be held in a virtual format in September 2022, with a possible focus on carbon peak neutralisation, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, material science, and modern agriculture.
During the BRICS Science Technology Innovation (STI) Steering Committee meeting in September 2022, China also proposed hosting the 10th BRICS S&T Ministerial Conference and Senior Official Meeting.
Open, Inclusive, and Shared Science, Technology, and Innovation would be the meeting’s theme. An exhibition highlighting the outcomes of successful projects financed under the BRICS Framework Programme will be held on the sidelines of the Ministerial conference ( 2015-2022).
During the conference, it was agreed that all countries would announce the particular dates, venue, and format of the meeting by the end of this month. India has informally agreed to host the STIEP working group meeting on March 23–24, 2022, as well as the BRICS Startups Forum meeting in May/June 2022.
