Proposal for BRICS

To establish a specific set of concepts that can be used in Youth Forums, and to prepare a group of standard sentences including these concepts.

With help of the online Dictionaries, the YoGoTe signs corresponding to these ideas can be identified.

Publication of these signs (and the corresponding international gestures, recorded in videos) would allow young people from the BRICS countries to join their colleagues from other countries regardless of their proficiency in English. This measure , however, is not in contradiction with the knowledge of international languages (in fact, these same signs can be useful to learn other languages), because the use of the hands to communicate our ideas does not interfere with the use of the voice to express these same ideas in any oral language.

The concept could be adapted for the specific needs of young students travelling abroad to study at a foreign BRICS University.

Relation with BRICS goals

Declaration of the 9th Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Education, 26 May, 2022

12. Advocate the concepts of sustainable development into TVET, develop courses and improve understanding among teachers/lecturers and students, and promote positive interaction between social and human development.

21. Elaborate an Action Plan to follow the Concept of the BRICS Network University Operation and Development and update the Road Map of the BRICS Network University for the short and medium term to provide its sustainable development for the benefit of young people in BRICS countries and worldwide.

23. Support the activities of the BRICS summer/winter schools, build a youth exchange platform, enhance the trust and friendship between the young generation and enrich future cooperation.

Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations on the margins of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 22 September 2022

11. The Ministers welcomed the Transforming Education Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General from 16-19 September 2022. They reaffirmed that the BRICS countries are committed to implementing the UN Education 2030 Agenda, promoting education accessibility and equity, accelerating the development of quality education and training, encouraging exchanges among the youths, strengthening the cultivation of knowledge on sustainable development, and providing BRICS contributions for global governance.

X BRICS Summit Johannesburg Declaration, 2018

V. People-to-people cooperation 

86. Emphasising the centrality of people in BRICS and its programmes, we commend the steady progress and exchanges in the fields of sports, youth, films, culture, education and tourism.