Independent Non-Profit Organization for the Development of
International Cooperation and Digitalization

BRICS & SCO 
Innovative Diplomacy Center 

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Independent Non-Profit Organization for the Development of International Cooperation and Digitalization "BRICS & SCO 
Innovative Diplomacy Center" was created in 2022 in Saint-Petersburg

GOALS

Development of international cooperation and digitalization for the sake of a sustainable and polycentric future of the BRICS and SCO countries.

Promoting the development of natural and humanitarian, social and managerial spheres, promoting innovation and research, focused both on the BRICS and SCO associations as a whole, and on individual countries and regions associated with them.

Creating conditions for the growth of civic responsibility for the country's fate and to increase the level of consolidation of society in order to solve the problems of ensuring national security and sustainable development of the Russian Federation, including in the international space.


Innovative diplomacy at the intersection of disciplines in the "people-to-people" format, involving innovative technologies and practices

GEOGRAPHY

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Iran, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia) and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (China, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran), as well as countries and regions related to them, including the Arctic region

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

Building an innovative, network structure of partnership interactions between BRICS and SCO actors, as well as countries and regions associated with them

Uniting youth around current topics of the present, in the name of a common future

Development of socio-humanitarian and cultural cooperation

Consolidation and development of non-profit organizations in the field of international cooperation

Promoting relations with African countries

Support for media communities of the BRICS and SCO countries

Promotion of digitalization and development of innovation, including the development of digital diplomacy and promoting the creation of digital archives

Promoting cooperation between the BRICS and SCO countries in the Arctic and promoting Arctic initiatives

Cooperation for Sustainable Development Goals

Interaction with foreign graduates of Soviet and Russian universities ​in the BRICS and SCO countries

Supporting entrepreneurship and promoting economic ties

Promotion of safe tourism

OUR TEAM

Elizaveta Petrova

Co-founder

- ​Executive Director.
- Professional BRICSologist and sinologist.
- Expert in the field of scientific and technical cooperation and digitalization of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS countries.

Nina Ladygina-Glazounova

Co-founder

- CEO (General Director).
- Sc.D, Professional BRICSologist and philosopher.
- Expert on integration processes of the Global South, ​foreign policy strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran and extra-regional actors in the Arctic.

Ekaterina Emelianenko

Co-founder

- Chairman of the Expert Council.
- Sc.D, Social anthropologist, Africanist on Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Expert in Strategic Communications, US Public Diplomacy.

Karina Argvliani

-​ Expert on World politics, sustainability and urbanization development.

Alena Fokina

- ​Professional BRICSologist.
- Area of scientific interest: Middle East and Africa.

Alain Saab

- ​International Youth Engagement Specialist.

Concept of foreign policy of the Russian Federation (approved by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin on November 30, 2016)

“Russia attaches great importance to ensuring sustainable manageability of global development, which requires collective leadership of leading states, which must be representative in geographical and civilizational terms and carried out with full respect for the central coordinating role of the UN. For these purposes, Russia is increasing interaction with partners within the G20 ", BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), RIC (Russia, India, China), as well as within other structures and dialogue platforms."