Two college students from the College of Rwanda have been recognised amongst winners of the 2026 Atoms Empowering Africa Video Contest, a contest organised by Russian vitality firm Rosatom in partnership with the BRICS Nuclear Platform.
The scholars, Ange Fanny Uwera and Kelia Raissa Akaliza, have been chosen amongst contributors within the competitors that promotes youth engagement in nuclear science and expertise.
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Uwera is an Utilized Physics pupil on the College of Rwanda and President of NiCE (Nuclear is Clear Vitality) Membership Rwanda, whereas Akaliza is a Physics main and Outreach Chief on the identical membership.
.@Uni_Rwanda college students Uwera Ange Fanny and Akaliza Kelia Raissa have been acknowledged amongst winners of the Atoms Empowering Africa Video Contest 2026, a global competitors organized by @RosatomGlobal in partnership with BRICS Nuclear Platform, to advertise youth engagement… pic.twitter.com/O2ZmroAFnl
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The competition invitations younger Africans to submit quick movies exploring how nuclear applied sciences can contribute to sustainable growth throughout the continent.
Members have been required to handle one among 5 themes, together with the position of nuclear vitality in the way forward for BRICS international locations, how nuclear applied sciences enhance folks’s lives, youth involvement in nuclear growth, the position of cities and areas in nuclear cooperation, and the imaginative and prescient of the BRICS Nuclear Platform in direction of 2030.
The competitors is open to residents of African international locations aged between 18 and 35 years, together with college students, younger professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs and different innovators eager about science, expertise and sustainable growth.
Entries are evaluated primarily based on standards comparable to originality of concepts, readability of presentation and the relevance of proposed options to contributors’ areas.
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The competition has been held since 2017, with the intention of partaking younger professionals throughout Africa in conversations concerning the peaceable purposes of nuclear applied sciences.
Within the 2025 version, the competitors obtained 50 purposes, with 13 winners chosen from six African international locations, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, DR Congo, Burundi and Namibia.
The winners travelled to Russia, the place they visited nuclear science and expertise establishments, together with the Rosatom Technical Academy in Obninsk and the Obninsk Nuclear Energy Plant, in addition to collaborating in cultural actions.
This comes as Rwanda has accelerated efforts to construct capability in nuclear science and expertise in preparations for a nuclear vitality programme, with plans to have its first small modular reactor (SMR) operational within the early 2030s.
The nation has additionally been investing in growing a pipeline of nuclear vitality consultants. By way of the Rwanda Atomic Vitality Board (RAEB) and UR, coaching programmes in nuclear science and expertise have been launched to equip college students with abilities wanted for numerous nuclear purposes.
Rwanda has signed a number of agreements with governments and nongovernmental businesses with expertise in nuclear vitality applied sciences. These embrace the USA and France in addition to corporations like Rosatom.
