University of Tehran's Hosna Salimi Wins BRICS' Young Researcher of the Year Title

By: GWL Team | Monday, 17 February 2025

Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran’s Student named as ‘Young Researcher of the Year’ in BRICS
Along with the title, She wins Shanghai Cooperation Organization Young Leaders Award 2025

Held on January 24-26, 2025, a student of the Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran, Hosna Salimi has been named as the ‘Young Researcher of the Year’ in BRICS along with Shanghai Cooperation Organization Young Leaders Award 2025. The award took place in Kazan, Russia.

As IRNA reported, from 13 countries that includes Iran, India, China, the UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, and Russia, more than 400 participants competed against each other. During the competition, the jury selected a total of 10 winners in five nominations that involved ‘Media Influencer of the Year’, ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’, ‘Public Diplomacy Project of the Year’, ‘Researcher of the Year’, ‘Eco-initiative of the Year’. The “Young Researcher of the Year” nomination’s candidates are scientific research authors in the fields of history, education, art, information technology (IT), law, philosophy, and finance.

Additionally, this award focuses on identifying talented young people while recognizing contribution of young leaders of the BRICS and SCO countries with an intent to socially significant areas. It also aims at attracting young people to cooperate, providing opportunities to them for self-realization in the BRICS and SCO countries.

Amongst the BRICS Women’s Startups Contest 2024 winners, four Iranian women that includes Azam Karami, Mahvash Abyari, Marzieh Ebrahimi, and Seyedeh Fateme Hosseini were selected during the event that aims at spotlighting as well as assisting female-led startups BRICS nations and beyond. This was launched in June and extended until October 5, 2024. The international panel of judges of this contest made consideration of over 1000 applications that came from 30 countries.