Young Indian entrepreneurs and professionals take part in the BRICS International Youth Forum, Moscow, 22-24 July 2014
6 young entrepreneurs and professionals from India viz. Rohit Saroha (Founder of Wild Rendezvous), Pranav Ashar (Founder of Matterden), Paramjeet Nagpal (Intel Corporation), Sachidanand Swami (Founder and CEO of Invoxel Technologies, Delhi), Vivan Sehgal (Advisor to CEO of Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited) and Jyoti Vashishtha (CEO Toyam Integrated Power Solution Pvt Ltd) participated in the BRICS International Youth Forum organized by the Russian Union of Youth in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation from 22 – 24 July 2014 at the Moscow State University. The Forum focused on opportunities and challenges of BRICS countries, youth participation in further developing cooperation amongst BRICS countries, potential for cooperation and project execution and greater interaction amongst students from BRICS countries with a view to developing scientific contacts of leading higher educational institutions.
BRICS International Youth Forum came out with an outcome document “Dialogues for Resolution”. Among other things, the outcome document calls for “establishing a working group for creating BRICS Youth Councils' communicative platforms for executing plans with respect to business, innovation, leadership development, humanitarian, political and scientific fields; creation of a division of the Development Bank of the BRICS aimed at supporting youth initiatives in entrepreneurship and innovation projects; and creating a system of youth internships and exchange programs, mentoring and enterprise development.”
