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SRI2022 – An African point of view to address wicked challenges

SRI2022 – An African point of view to address wicked challenges

The world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community is currently being held at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Institute and Campus. The Sustainability, Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2022) unites more than 2 000 global research leaders, government and civil society experts, funders, and innovators to inspire action and promote sustainabilit...
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Dr Heide Hackmann discusses transdisciplinarity and global knowledge networks with womanity-women in unity

Dr Heide Hackmann discusses transdisciplinarity and global knowledge networks with womanity-women in unity

This week on Womanity-Women in Unity, as part of our commemoration for #AfricaDay, which is celebrated on 25 May, Dr. Amaleya Goneos-Malka talks to Dr. Heide Hackmann, the Interim Director and Advisor on Transdisciplinarity and Global Knowledge Networks at the Future Africa Institute | University of Pretoria. Prior to this role Dr Hackmann served as CEO of the International Science Council.
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SRI Inkundla Shared ways forward for the world we want

SRI Inkundla 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, ...
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Environmental thought in Africa cannot be separated from power and lived realities, Future Africa webinar hears

Future Africa recently hosted a webinar that explored how environmental thought in Africa is shaped by power, colonial legacies and lived realities.

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Get to know the ECRLF Fellows: Dr. Carene Picot-Allain

Dr. Carene Picot-Allain in simple terms is living her childhood dreams. Her love of nature as a young child was a clear sign that she was destined for a career in natural sciences.
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Future Africa Workshop Day for Early Career Research Fellows

The Early Career Research Fellows attended two thoughtful workshops on 16 October at Future Africa. A 'Future Studies' workshop was held early on Wednesday by expert Dr Robert Bourgeois and a Science Communication session was later facilitated by Ms Anina Mumm of Sciencelink.
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The Tuks Young Research Leader Programme completes a successful fifth round

The Tuks Young Research Leader Programme completes a successful fifth round

The fifth round of the Tuks Young Research Leader Programme successfully completed a fifth round on 14 and 15 October. The workshop took place, for the first time, at the new Future Africa Institute.
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Mushrooms make Africa great again

Imagine this headline in 2037: Mushrooms make Africa great again

Imagine this headline in 2037: "Mushrooms make Africa great again"...Future Africa's Dr Rosemary Kinge Tonjock, from Cameroon, believes the modest #mushroom could help boost #foodsecurity in Africa.
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Microsoft AI for Good workshop at Future Africa

Technology has permeated different aspects of our lives and by all indications this is only going to increase with Artificial Intelligence (AI) set to be at pole position.
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Future Africa welcomes new Director Prof Cheikh Mbow

Future Africa is excited to welcome its new Director, Prof Cheikh Mbow, who joins the team from START-International in Washington DC.
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Could a cure for Alzheimers be growing in this biotechnologist’s backyard

Could a cure for Alzheimer’s be growing in this biotechnologist’s backyard? Over 2 million dementia sufferers in sub-Saharan Africa are waiting for a cure or a treatment that does better than just slowing their deterioration. A treatment they and their families can afford and trust.
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economic policy shift across Africa

Imagine this headline in the future: Nigeria 2035 youth job boom sees an economic policy shift across Africa

It’s the year 2035. Nigeria’s massive jobs surge has prompted other African governments to adopt its youth startup funding model.
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Plant scientist hopes to keep the forestry industry alive

Plant scientist hopes to keep the forestry industry alive

The year is 2033 and the world has finally stopped a tree-killing fungus wreaking havoc on the global forestry industry, all thanks to African scientists.
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Progress 2019 of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Tshwane project

The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Tshwane (BEST) project aims to measure the contribution to ecosystem functions and services by native plants in urban contexts. The native garden at Future Africa is one of two native patches that have been implemented on the project, the other being at the Javett Art Centre on Hatfield campus.
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scientists announce the first HIV vaccine

Imagine a future where an African-led team of scientists announce the first HIV vaccine

Imagine a future where an African-led team of scientists announce the first HIV vaccine.
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ASLP fellows selected to Next Einstein Forum

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) was launched in 2013 by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and aims to make Africa the global hub for science and technology.
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