The main objective of the Forum is to facilitate youth participation in generation of impactful and innovative ideas that can help achieve the UN SDGs by 2030. The Forum will feature plenary sessions and expert panel discussions, interactive workshops and foresight sessions, unleashing the Campaign #FromBRICSwithSDG and the BRICS Sustainable Ideas Bank.
The event will gather high-profile decision-makers, experts and youth practitioners to empower active youth participation and facilitate their creative potential through cross-cultural team work and project development. The geographic scope of the event will cover the BRICS countries and other partner regional organizations, including the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and ASEAN.
As part of the BRICS Youth SDG Forum you will participate in our flagship initiatives that are not limited by BRICS countries only.
Grand opening of the Forum with great panel discussions and leading experts.
Today our world is home to the largest youth population ever in history. Young people are already at the forefront of transforming the world and advancing sustainable development.
Representatives of youth-led and youth-oriented NGOs, SDG activists from BRICS+ countries will exchange experiences on the implementation of projects in the field of SDG.
BRICS as developing nations have a potential to make a significant contribution to achieving of UN SDGs. Young people could facilitate this.
Young people will co-produce the leading topic for the 2021 campaign #FromBRICSwithSDG to be upheld by BRICS Youth Energy Agency.
Young people will get a unique opportunity to become the first contributors to the BRICS Sustainable Ideas Bank and decide which new proposals should be added.
We note that BRICS are open to cooperation with the whole world, including the UN SDGs agenda. So does the Youth.
Participants will develop regional roadmaps to involve young people in the process of transition to sustainable development of their economic sectors, including energy, taking into account that the pursuit of SDG 7 presents unique opportunities for the development of the region.
BRICS YEA, UN Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY) and representatives of the youth wings of major regional groups will introduce the most significant practices of SDGs implementation in their regional groups (international organizations), as well as outline their own vision of what forms of cooperation at the macro-regional level will allow to achieve the sustainable development for BRICS Plus countries.
Within the framework of the closing session the United Nations representative will deliver a keynote address. The youth participants of the Forum will present the outcomes of their work during the Forum.
The Forum is co-organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, National Youth Council of Russia, BRICS Youth Energy Agency and MIREA – Russian Technological University.
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