Annual Meeting of the Belt and Road International Science Education Consortium (BRISEC) was held on June 12, 2025 in Chengdu, China. The meeting was chaired by Prof. WU Xiangping President of BRISEC, and then moderated by Prof. Manzoor Soomro, the BRISEC Vice-president and Ex-President/Advisor of ECOSF. Prof. WU Xiangping delivered the welcome address to the all members attending offline as well as online.

Later, Ms. Xin Bing, Director General of Children and Youth Science Center of CAST (CYSCC) delivered the highlights of BRISEC’s annual work (July 2024 to June 2025). She said that in the reporting period, BRISEC members have adhered to the Silk Road spirit of “peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit” and followed the Belt and Road Partnership Plan for Teenager Science and Technology Innovation, to proactively align our initiatives with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Prioritizing peer-to-peer exchanges, resource sharing, and network building, BRISEC combined collective synergy with targeted collaboration, openness with shared development, and deepened exchanges and cooperation with Belt and Road partner countries in youth science education, science popularization, and capability improvement for science teachers. Efforts have also been made to effectively promote the implementation of the tasks set at the previous annual meeting. Institutional mechanisms matured, friendly ties among members grew stronger, and BRISEC’s influence and appeal expanded. The highlights of BRISEC’s annual work are summarized below.

• Multi-tiered youth activities flourished, expanding horizons for peer-to-peer exchange.
• Diversified resource platforms expanded, and online and onsite teacher workshops thrived.
• The BRISEC family expanded, and the youth sci-tech innovation partnership network has gradually grown.
• Implementation of previous year’s proposals:

Building on the success of last year’s “Traditional Toys and STEM Education” workshop, this year’s Maker Camp specifically arranged for the self-developed teaching aids R&D team of the College of Physics and Electronic Engineering of Sichuan Normal University to engage in exchanges with BRISEC members.
Key priorities for next steps.

During the meeting, the member organizations made presentations and shared their activities based on 2025 annual report of BRISEC by the Secretariat.

President ECOSF, Professor Tayebi, delivered a presentation report highlighting one-year (July 2024-June 2025) activities of ECOSF under BRISEC framework as follows:

1. Teenager Science Education Sindh STEAM Festival 2025 held in Karachi on February 27, 2025
2. Teenager Science Education International Online Seminar on Capacity Building for Youth and Science Teacher held on November 3, 2024
3. Teenager Science Education Workshops during NST Fair Thailand from August 16-25, 2025
4. Teenager Science Education ASPAC Masterclass for Emerging Leaders (AMEL) 2024
5. Teenager Science Education: 8th Young Scientists Festival (YSF) held on December 17, 2024 in Iran.

Prof. Tayebi also presented the future proposals of ECOSF to be held from July 2025 to June 2026 under the BRISEC framework as follows:

1. Summer STEM Camp & Teachers’ Workshop
2. International Forum on Science Education & Capacity Building Workshop on IBSE in Uzbekistan
3. Science Education and Capacity Building Workshop on Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) for Iran under the Framework of BRISEC,
4. ECO Youth Forum: Enhancing the Role of Youth for Building a Sustainable and Climate-Resilience Future
5. ECO Women Forum: Enhancing the Rule of Women for Building a Sustainable and Climate-Resilience Future

The meeting was ended with vote of thanks.