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SRI2021 Funding Opportunity

SRI2021 Funding Opportunity

The new joint initiative of Future Earth and the Belmont Forum, the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI) will be the leading annual meeting for sustainability scholarship and innovation, trans-disciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration, and knowledge to action. Please join us and bring your team!
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Roundtable What does transformation(s) to sustainability mean today

Roundtable What does transformation(s) to sustainability mean today

Thursday, 4 March at 15h–16h CET The Transformations to Sustainability programme (a joint initiative of the International Science Council, the Belmont Forum and the NORFACE network) invites you to an in-depth discussion of some of the critical questions for research on transformations to sustainability in early 2021.
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Future Africa presents at the Galien Forum

Future Africa presents at the Galien Forum

On 10 December 2020, University of Pretoria researchers – collaborating on the Youth Empowerment and Health/Economic Responses to COVID-19 (YEaH), funded by UNICEF – presented to the 3rd edition of the Galien Forum.
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Future Africa – 1HOPE Webinar Series

Future Africa – 1HOPE Webinar Series

We are delighted to invite you to participate in a groundbreaking "Future Africa -1 HOPE " webinar series. The aim of the series is to build collaborative transdisciplinary research capacity of early career and doctoral students through a One Health & Well-Being lens - using the Zoom-digital platform.
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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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Desertification and drought: Herding and farming communities

World Day to Combat Desertification and Droughts is an attempt to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification. The day offers opportunity to address land degradation through cooperation at all levels. Driven by factors such as population growth, which increases demand for energy, food, and other goods and services, climate change in Africa has posed numerous environ...
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World Youth Skills Day: Empowering School Learners through STEM Education

Future Africa's Research Chair on Health, People, and Places has launched a STEM skills programme for school learners. The programme offers practical and theoretical science activities, and career exposure opportunities, aimed at investing in the next generation of African scientists.
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Prestigious Banda-Africa fellowship awarded to FAR-LeaF fellow Dr Amankwaa

The University of Ghana has awarded Dr Ebenezer Amankwaa a Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa project (BANGA-AFRICA). He is an urban geographer and lecturer at the university's Department of Geography and Resource Development.
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Open Science and its Relevance

Open Science and its Relevance in the African Context

In a recent interview on Business Talk, Dr Heide Hackmann, Director of Future Africa, shed light on the significance of open science and its potential to catalyse transformative innovation and collaboration in Africa.
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plateforme-collaborativeThe UP and University of Montpellier team at the launch of the Global Collaborative PhD Platform during Africa Week 2023

FAR-LeaF presents session at Sri Panama

Four representatives from the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship Programme (FAR-LeaF) will present a session at the Sustainability Research & Innovation (SRI) Congress conference hosted in Panama.
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Ensuring mental well-being through transdisciplinary research

Health is more than the absence of illness or disease; it encompasses a holistic state of physical, mental, and social well-being. One must achieve complete well-being, not just a lack of sickness, to be healthy. Similarly, mental health is defined as a state of wellness in which individuals can utilise their abilities effectively, manage everyday stressors, perform well at work, contribute to soc...
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Professor Dire Tladi nominated to serve as a judge at the International Court of Justice

The Future Africa Institute at the University of Pretoria is pleased to announce and extend its congratulations to Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law and Future Africa's Research Chair of Global Equity in Africa, on his nomination as South Africa's candidate to serve as a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), commonly known as the World Court.
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WEB_SRIFAR-LeaF’s team who physically attended the SRI2023 Africa satellite event in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). From left are FAR-LeaF program director Prof Stephanie Burton, Drs Vincent Pagiwa, Brighton Chunga, Ebenezer Amankwaa and Samson Mhiza

FAR-LeaF health cluster impress at Sri 2023 Africa satellite event

Eight fellows of the Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship programme (FAR-LeaF) of the University of Pretoria presented their research at this week's prestigious SRI2023 Africa satellite event.
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FAR-LeaF fellow presents at ACSUS-UP virtual conference

FAR-LeaF fellow Dr Hauwa Mohammed Sani of the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria participated in a panel discussion and presented a paper at a virtual conference presented by the African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP) in June.
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The rights of the child in the digital environment

Children must use the digital environment to afford crucial opportunities for their voices to be heard in matters that affect them. Digital technologies can help them realise the child’s participation locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Child labour in Africa

Child labour in Africa: Call to action

World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization-sanctioned holiday launched in 2002, aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. Celebrating this day helps create awareness about child labour's educational, mental, economic, socio-emotional, and physical hazards.
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plateforme-collaborativeThe UP and University of Montpellier team at the launch of the Global Collaborative PhD Platform during Africa Week 2023

UP and Montpellier University launch collaborative PhD platform to establish global community of sustainability scientists

In support of efforts to feed, care, and protect people and the planet, the University of Pretoria (UP) has joined forces with France’s University of Montpellier (UM) to lead the establishment of the Feed, Protect, Care Global Collaborative PhD Platform. The platform, which was launched at UP’s Future Africa Institute as part of Africa Week celebrations, will be implemented in partnership with...
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