On July 17th, 2017, the Network of Southern Think Tanks (NeST) and the United Nations Development Program Seoul Policy Centre (UNDP Seoul Policy Centre) hosted the debate “Data for SDG 17: How to measure contributions towards...
The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) has the pleasure to inform you that the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fudan University, China. The partnership is of...
The Global Southern Media Unit (GSUM / PUC-Rio), the swisspeace (associate institute of the University of Basel) and the Center for Mediation in Africa (CMA / University of Pretoria) organized...
From June 21st to 23rd, 2017, The University of Manchester and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) hosted the conference "From Rising Powers to Interdependent Futures" in Manchester, England. The BRICS Policy Center was...
During the Civic BRICS Forum, attended by representatives of civil society of the BRICS countries, it has been discussed issues and alternatives to take the block forward with its agenda in...
On June 22nd and 23rd, 2017, the seminar organized in São Paulo gathered more than 60 social organizations representatives, scholars and researchers from Brazil and all over Latin America in order to debate...
Between the 19th and 23rd of June, 2017, the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM), through the International Relations Institute (IRI/PUC-Rio), offered a course on “Conflict Resolution and International Mediation” at the Rio...
On June 26th, 2017, the BRICS Policy Center hosted the release event of the Social Panorama of Latin America 2016, organized in a partnership with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and...
On June 20th and 21th, 2017, BPC's General Supervisor, Prof. Paulo Esteves, visited the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) of the University of Sussex. The University of Sussex was ranked the best university in the world...
Between June 10th and 13th, the Chinese government organized the 9th BRICS Academic Forum in Fuzhou, China. The Forum was a part of the series of official events preceding the BRICS Summit and focused on...