2026 BRICS Summit: Scholarship Programs and Early Childhood Education Discussed in New Delhi Declaration

Source: detikcom | Original Published At: 2026-09-13 01:57:35 UTC

Key Points

• Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto attended the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India.
• The summit produced the New Delhi Declaration, adopted by BRICS member states: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.
• The declaration focuses on education cooperation, human resource development, innovation, and people-to-people exchange among BRICS members.
• It promotes collaborative efforts to improve education governance, quality, and access, including undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship and exchange programs, especially in STEM fields.
• The declaration supports the BRICS Network University and cooperation in early childhood care and education, foundational literacy and numeracy, digital literacy, and safe, ethical, human-centered use of AI in education.
• Indian Foreign Ministry official Sudhakar Dalela said the innovation pillar includes cooperation on technology, research, entrepreneurship, digital public infrastructure, and the BRICS Science and Research Repository.
• Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency, BRIN, said it opened advanced research infrastructure and facilities to researchers from BRICS member states to strengthen researcher mobility and concrete research collaboration.