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Africa–Europe CoRE on the Politics of Sustainable Development meets at Future Africa to Strengthen Research Collaboration and Joint PhD Programme

Africa–Europe CoRE on the Politics of Sustainable Development meets at Future Africa to Strengthen Research Collaboration and Joint PhD Programme

Members of the Africa–Europe Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) on the Politics of Sustainable Development met at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, to strengthen research collaboration and the joint PhD Programme. The meeting confirmed new joint research initiatives and reinforced commitment to doctoral training and long-term sustainability.
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Call for Applications: PhD scholarship grants 2026 (UKUDLA)

Call for Applications: PhD scholarship grants 2026 (UKUDLA)

The African German Centre for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science, which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH) in Germany offers scholarships to German and African applicants to support a PhD-thesis research projects in Southern Africa in cooperation with one of our partner institutions.
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Professor Wanda Markotter reappointed as Future Africa One Health Research Chair

Professor Wanda Markotter has been reappointed as Future Africa’s One Health Research Chair for a second five-year term, strengthening transdisciplinary research, African collaboration and leadership in One Health across the continent.

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Onchocerciasis

Blackfly Biting and the Transmission of Onchocerciasis

World Brain Day 2022 is dedicated to “Brain Health for all”. Research Fellow Dr Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo is a medical doctor and research officer at the Brain Research Africa Initiative (BRAIN) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Currently, he is participating in the Future Africa Leader Fellowship Programme (FAR-LeaF) at the University of Pretoria.
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Education in Youth Through Robotics

World Youth Skills Day Revisited

The challenges facing young people worldwide regarding employment and entrepreneurship are especially severe – traditionally even more so in Africa. The number of youth that are Not in Employment, Education and Training (NEET) has been climbing steadily since 2017. Globally, one in five young people is NEET. Three out of four young NEETs are women.
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Education in Youth Through Robotics

Nurturing STEM Education in Youth Through Robotics

Future Africa recently hosted a group of vibrant and enthusiastic young budding scientists to pilot a Robotics and Coding Course on the 30th of July, 2022.
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Dr Heide Hackmann

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

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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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.
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SRI Inkundla

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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SRI2022

SRI2022 programme 20-24 June 2022

The 2022 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress Programme is now available.
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SRI2022

Future Africa to host upcoming Global Sustainability Conference

The congress will gather global leaders, experts, industry practitioners, and innovators in the field of sustainability.
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ECRLF

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.
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Dr Heide Hackmann

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 t...
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