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SA female STEM scientist continues to grow One Health platform
The ground-breaking One Health High-Level Expert Panel's 2021 (OHHLEP) annual report has just gone live. What makes this noteworthy is that Professor Wanda Markotter is one of two global experts on the OHHLEP.
#CLABAfrica Webinar 3 focusing on "People-Animal-Ecosystems-Health and Wellbeing"
Happening today!
#CLABAfrica Webinar 3
Tuesday 24 May 2022
15:00-16:30hrs (SAST)
Zoom Webinar, register here: http://cutt.ly/zHX2rVt
Brought to you by the Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network - FANRPAN , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Agence Française de Développement
SRI Inkundla #4 "Shared Ways Forward for the World We Want"
The future we want to live in is on the horizon. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a target framework to achieve this ideal, but a realisation of many goals requires innovation – institutional, policy, technological, and societal – and a willingness to change. Additionally, the interlinked and interdependent nature of the SDGs makes it important to take a systemic perspective, which is, in itself, not part of the structural/cultural landscapes of many of our governments and institutions.
SRI2022 programme launch news article for the SRI2022 website
The 2022 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress Programme is now available.
Future Africa to host upcoming Global Sustainability Conference
The congress will gather global leaders, experts, industry practitioners, and innovators in the field of sustainability.
The Early Career Research Leader Fellowship (ECRLF)
The ECRLF is an initiative of the Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria (UP) funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). It serves early career research leaders in basic and applied sciences, engineering, social sciences, the humanities and the arts.
From Paris to Pretoria – Dr Heide Hackmann joins Future Africa
UP welcomes international science diplomat, advisor and policy maker, Dr Heide Hackmann (former CEO of The International Science Council) on staff as the Interim Director at the Future Africa Institute. Born in Kwa-Zulu Natal and having travelled abroad acquiring multiple scholarly and career achievements, she returns to South Africa after nearly 30 years with a determined vision to help empower the African science community with her wealth of knowledge, networks, and capacitation expertise.
SRI2022 Calendar
SRI Inkundlas are a series of four interactive and inspirational events organised every month leading up to the 2022 Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress, to be held at the Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria, South Africa from 20-24 June 2022. The SRI pre-Congress Inkundlas aims to emphasise the collaborative, inclusive and engaging nature of the Congress, while honouring the traditions and culture of the 2022 host, South Africa.