Tehran – Hosna Salimi, a student at the Faculty of World Studies at Tehran University, was selected as the “Young Researcher” for the 2025 Young Leader Award for BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Agency, held in Kazan, Russia from January 24-26. It’s been done. .
More than 400 participants from 13 countries, including Iran, India, China, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, Tajikistan and Russia, competed against each other.
There were 10 judges with five nominations, including “Media Influencer of the Year,” “Social Entertainer of the Year,” “Diplomacy Project of the Year,” “Researchers of the Year,” and “Eco Innity of the Year.” We selected the winners.
The candidate for the “Young Researcher of the Year” nomination is the author of scientific research in the fields of history, education, arts, information technology (IT), law, philosophy and finance.
The award identifies talented young people, and provides opportunities for young leaders from BRICS and SCO countries to contribute to socially important regions, attract young people to cooperation, and self-realization in BRICS and SCO countries It is intended to do so.
Iranian female scholars shine at the BRICS startup contest
Four Iranian women, namely Azam Karami, Mahavash Abhiyari, Marji Ebrahimi and Seyede Fatem Hoseini, were selected among the winners of the 2024 BRICS Women’s Startup Contest.
The event aims to provide a spotlight and support for women-led startups from BRICS countries onwards, and was launched in June and extended until October 5th.
The contest’s international jury has considered over 1,000 applications from 30 countries.
The contest winners included 26 projects, including innovation in energy and infrastructure facilities. Artificial intelligence technology in the medicine, education, agriculture and aviation industries. The battle between cancer and infertility. and robotics.
Iranian women rank second in the number of winners in the startup contest after Russia.
Karami won the award for the project entitled “Automatic Fault Detection on Power Lines” for its nomination “Artificial Intelligence.”
The nominated “Health and Medicine” awards will be sent to Abyali and Ebrahimi for projects named “Insightful Glucose Monitoring” and “Immune Cell Bank for the Treatment of Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases”, respectively. It was done.
Hosseini won the nomination “Innovation and Infrastructure” award and received a project called “Tremor Reaviation’s Intelligent Spoon.”
Promoting women’s entrepreneurship, unleashing leadership and ensuring the expansion of women’s business networks in BRICS countries is one of the main goals of the contest.
It also aims to deepen B2B cooperation among female entrepreneurs, increase women’s participation in the economies of BRICS countries, and create multilateral projects.
Including women’s businesses in the global value chain is another goal of the contest.
The general partner of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance series events is Sberbank PJSC, Russia’s largest bank and a global financial institution.
The strategic partner of the contest is another leader in the Russian banking industry GazPrombank (Kyoko Corporation).
Startups from 14 countries will receive communication support from the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance.
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