BRICS Research Forum will take place in Brazil, at the Unicamp University in September

After the success of the first forum in South Africa, the forum will take place in Brazil for two days, inviting post-graduate students from BRICS+ countries in-person and online.

BRICS Research Forum was established by a team of BRICS researchers led by the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa applied for and acquired funding in 2021 from the NIHSS’s hosted and run BRICS Think Tank (SABTT). The grant was intended to research the effects of COVID-19 in the BRICS nations and specifically to enquire about the linkages between entrepreneurship, agriculture and climate change during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

With this NIHSS grant came conditions that, among others, the BRICS research team should host a BRICS academic conference, a postgraduate student forum, fund student/staff capacity development, plan and publish journal articles or book chapters from contributions at these academic forums and exchanges. 

The last edition of the BRICS Research Forum took place on April 2022, in Durban, South Africa, where the Durban University of Technology is located. The event was held online and offline and counted with the participation of post-graduate researchers from all five BRICS countries plus other countries, in which they had the opportunity to share their papers’ proposals and receive invaluable feedback from the audience. 

Given the successful results of the first conference, the BRICS Research took a step further, and now, for the first time, the event will be held in Brazil in the city of Campinas (São Paulo State) for 2 days, from September 26-27th, at Unicamp University in the Institute of Economics (IE). The main purpose of the forum is to allow for capacity development for postgraduate students from BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)  or outside who are researching the BRICS nations. 

This forum is intended to bring together Masters's and PhD students, who have been registering to attend the event in person (Max 50 for in-person) and online. 

The forum's focus is to stimulate and encourage multidisciplinary research in BRICS nations and determine the implications that COVID-19 brings about in the four areas of climate change, entrepreneurship development, local development, and the New Development Bank Funding priorities and outcomes. Therefore, the forum calls on research papers and posters to produce country-scale and cross-national (BRICS) comparative data trends of qualitative and quantitative nature. 

The attendees of the event will have access to several benefits, such as networking with researchers from all BRICS nations, the opportunity to identify research in BRICS nations, get acquainted with the research methodology in BRICS nations, ask questions about BRICS nations' research, and receive a certificate of attendance will be issued to participants

Call for Papers Themes: 

● Entrepreneurship Investment, and trade

● Agriculture

● Climate change

● Finance/The New Development Bank

● Governance

● Air transport and tourism

● Other topics in BRICS

Postgraduates’ students, academics, policymakers, BRICS enthusiasts and journalists are expected and welcome to attend. 

It is possible to register by or before 31 July 2022 and get more information on the BRICS Forum in Brazil.

TV BRICS is a media partner of the event.

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