BRICS Competition of
Skills Development and Technology Innovation 2025
ASEAN International Competition
According to the Notice on the Organization of the 9th BRICS Competition of Skills Development and Technological Innovation International Event in 2025 (BRICS Competition Organizing Committee Letter [2025] No.014), to implement the spirit of the ‘Kazan Declaration’ from the 16th BRICS Summit, which calls for ‘continuing to promote exchanges in education, training, skills development, science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship,’ and to further expand exchanges and cooperation in education, training, and science and technology, thereby promoting the high-quality development of vocational education, the BRICS Business Council, the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning(Bappenas), The Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Malaysian Ministry of Education, the Malaysian Industry and Government High-Tech Alliance plan to jointly organize the 2025 BRICS Competition of Skills Development and Technology Innovation–ASEAN International Competition (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN International Competition,” which includes the [Technological Innovation Competition] and the [Future Skills Challenge]). The specific details are as follows:
I. Organizational structure
(1) Hosts
BRICS Business Council
Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia
Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Malaysia
(2) Organizers
National Agency for Research and Innovation, Indonesia
BRICS Business Council Working Group on Skills Development, Applied Technology and Innovation in Indonesia
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia
(3) Co-organizers
Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
ASEAN Institute of Engineering and Technology (AAET)
The Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM)
Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT)
Malaysian Invention and Design Society (MINDS)
Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology (TAR UMT)
(4) Chinese organizers
China Chapter of BRICS Business Council Skills Development, Applied Technology and Innovation Working Group
International Alliance of Skills Development for Belt & Road and BRICS（IASDBR）
Belt & Road And BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Training Center
BRICS + Alliance for Science and Technology Innovation
(5) Chinese co-organizers
China Association of Inventions
China Center for Humanities Exchange, Ministry of Education
(6) Chinese executive organizers
BRICS Academy of Skills Development and Technology Innovation (Xiamen)
BRICS Future (Xiamen) Technology Co., LTD
