2020 Annual Meeting of BRISECC held virtually
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The 2020 Annual Meeting of “Belt and Road International Science Education Coordinating Committee (BRISECC)” was held virtually on 24 Nov 2020. The meeting was moderated by President of BRISECC Prof. WU Yueliang and attended by three Vice Presidents namely; Dato Lee Yee Cheong, Commissioner UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development; Prof. Manzoor H. Soomro, President ECOSF and Mr. LISOVYI, Oksen, Director of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine along with the Members from various countries along the Belt and Road.
The purpose of meeting was to discuss the annual progress of the activities under the framework of BRISECC and chalk out/approve plans for 2021. A presentation was given by Ms. YANG Feng of BRISECC Secretariat which highlighted the major activities done in year 2020 as under:
- The 4th Belt and Road Teenager Maker Camp & Teacher Workshop held in Oct-Nov 2020
- Establishment of Belt and Road Virtual Science Center (BRVSC)
- A 5-days Capacity Building Workshop on Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) in Pakistan by ECOSF under the framework of BRISECC
- The International Festival of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Tunisia (IFEST)
- Developing and sharing science resources themed at COVID-19
New proposals such as Global Virtual Science Museum Network; Resource Sharing, Development and Practice of Belt and Road Virtual Science Center and Belt and Road Environmental Education Training Centre and Belt and Road Science Education Alliance of 100 Schools were presented in the meeting which were unanimously approved by the Committee.
New Members of BRISECC; Sukkur IBA Univeristy-Pakistan, Near East University-Cyprus and Beijing Normal University-China, joined the Committee.