BRICS Young Innovators Prize Competition 2025 for young Entrepreneurs and researchers. (USD 50,000 Prize) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: 07 August 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 BRICS Young Innovators Prize Competition. The eighth BRICS Young Innovator Prize might be a part of the tenth BRICS Young Scientist Forum (Forum) that can happen on September fifteenth – seventeenth, 2025 in Brasilia, Brazil, below the Brazilian presidency within the BRICS group.

The deliberate thematic space of the competition is: Artificial Intelligence utilized to Public Service Solutions. How can rising applied sciences enhance the lives of residents in BRICS nations? Projects on different subjects won’t be thought of.

Project Requirements

The submitted initiatives have to be progressive.

• Projects have to be within the pre-market stage, that means they don’t seem to be out there for widespread client acquisition and should not provided to the general public, even in native markets. We settle for initiatives which can be within the phases of restricted product testing, non-serial manufacturing, certification, or preparation for market launch.
• The BRICS Young Innovator Prize focuses on initiatives that ought to/could possibly be used to enhance their respective sectors/ industries. The initiatives ought to handle important social, financial, developmental or environmental challenges and supply progressive options designed to enhance the standard of life in modern BRICS societies.
• Corporate improvements should not accepted (e.g. initiatives developed by the workers of a know-how Company). Also, the challenge shouldn’t be merged with some other know-how firm and not be within the means of being merged on the time of participation within the Prize

Participant Requirements

• Candidates have to be below the age of forty (40) by Dec thirty first, 2025.
• Candidates have to be the preliminary authors of the submitted challenge.
• Affiliation Candidates must be affiliated with BRICS countries by nationality (born or naturalized) or residency (permanent residency visa).
• Only one project may be submitted per candidate.

Prize:

Successful participants will receive the following prizes after applicable verification and subject to compliance with the rules and conditions of the BRICS Young Innovator Prize:

• First Prize: twenty-five thousand dollars (USD 25,000).
• Second Prize: fifteen thousand dollars (USD 15,000).
• Third Prize: ten thousand dollars (USD 10,000)

Submission Requirements

Application form (completed, signed and dated).

• Nominee’s Curriculum Vitae/Biography.
• Photo of the nominee (image must be larger than 250*300 pixels).
• Information and research data pertaining to the submitted innovative project (may be provided in various formats, including
  Microsoft Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations, as well as photo and video materials).

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the BRICS Young Innovators Prize Competition