13.01.2023

The results of the 5th BRICS STI Framework Programme Call 2021 have been announced. 333 Applications were submitted. As a result of the competition, 33 projects were selected for support, including the project led by Alexey Volkov “Monitoring and removal of antibiotics from wastewater by membrane separation”. The international scientific consortium for the project included Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), TIPS RAS (Russia), Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (India), Zhejiang University (China) and University of South Africa (South Africa). Congratulations to the winners!

http://brics-sti.org/?p=new/33

04.07.2022

Meeting of the BRICS STI Funding Working Group
“Discussion on BRICS STI Flagship Projects”

On 27-28 June 2022 in line with development of activities of the BRICS STI Framework Programme the BRICS STI Funding Working Group held workshop “Discussion on BRICS STI Flagship Projects” aimed at discussion of BRICS STI Flagship Projects concept. The meeting gathered more than 60 participants, representing BRICS research funding agencies and policy makers, participants of the selected BRICS research thematic Working Groups and BRICS STI projects as well as other interested actors. The goal of the meeting was to exchange views on the concept of BRICS Flagship Projects, including discussion on global challenges of BRICS strategic importance that Flagship Projects could address, prospective areas of BRICS Flagship projects call for proposals, definition and requirements on potential Flagship project impact and other relevant issues.

The “Development of membrane-based methods to improve the recovery of pure water and valuable products from the waste (BRICS4Water)” project was among the reference projects that were supported as result of the first 3 BRICS STI FP calls and implemented by research consortia comprised of teams from 5 BRICS states. Alexey Volkov (A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian Academy of Sciences) as coordinator of “BRICS4Water” project shared results of the project and experience in implementing large BRICS research project that may be important not only to further improve the BRICS STI FP mechanisms, but also to be used for  performing BRICS STI Flagship Projects.

27.12.2021

The winners of the 5th coordinated call for BRICS multilateral projects 2021 were announced on the BRICS website http://brics-sti.org/?p=new/31. The project, led by our international team led by Alexei Volkov, has passed to the next stage. Congratulations to our colleagues on winning the first stage!