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The 14th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Ministerial Meeting, held in Chennai under India's BRICS chairship, unanimously adopted the Chennai Declaration, also called the Chennai Consensus.
The adoption was announced at the closing session by Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, who chaired the meeting.
The Declaration puts a 'people-centred and humanity-first' approach at the core of BRICS science cooperation, linking it to sustainable development, social inclusiveness and quality of life.
It advances the BRICS Global Research Advanced Infrastructure Network (BRICS GRAIN) for shared access to large research facilities, and welcomes a BRICS Science and Research Repository as a digital public good.
It backs the Young Scientist Forum, the Young Innovator Prize and the BRICS Youth Startup Platform, and flags a possible BRICS Startup Innovation Fund for early- and growth-stage ventures.
Give researchers across BRICS countries access to each other's large-scale research facilities
Key: The Declaration records progress on operationalising it and welcomes the Action Plan and Terms of Reference of the Task Force on research infrastructures and mega-science projects
Map institutions, researchers, datasets, research outputs and infrastructure across the grouping
Key: Conceived as a digital public good, operating subject to national regulations and data-governance requirements
Build a pipeline of early-career researchers and innovators within BRICS
Key: Eleven editions of the Forum and nine of the Prize had been held by the time of the Chennai meeting
Convert BRICS research collaboration into enterprises and jobs
Key: The Platform was welcomed in the Declaration; a Startup Innovation Fund to finance early- and growth-stage startups was flagged for consideration
Grouping of major emerging economies; the acronym began as BRIC and became BRICS when South Africa joined in 2010, and it has since expanded further
India's nodal department for the BRICS STI track and for the Chennai Ministerial
The BRICS-established multilateral development bank, the grouping's principal institutional creation and a potential financing channel for cooperation projects
GS Paper II > International relations - bilateral and regional groupings involving India; GS Paper III > Science and technology, indigenisation and international collaboration
General Awareness > Summits, declarations and international organisations
Consider the following statements regarding BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) cooperation: It is based on mutual benefit and public-good-driven innovation. It is governed only through annual Heads of State Summits. Which of the statements is/are correct?
Answer: Only 1 is correct
The alternative name for the Chennai Declaration, the outcome document of the 14th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting held under India's 2026 chairship.
BRICS Global Research Advanced Infrastructure Network - a mechanism for shared access to large research facilities across member countries.
An open, shared digital resource - software, data or a platform - designed for common use and public benefit, the model proposed for the BRICS Science and Research Repository.