Building South Africa's innovation capacity
The Southern Education and Research Alliance (SERA) embodies an inclusive, strategic alliance that seeks to create the education, research and technology transfer infrastructure and competence needed to significantly contribute to South Africa's global competitiveness.
Founding partners, the CSIR and University of Pretoria - respectively the largest R&D, technology and innovation institution in Africa and one of the largest research universities in the country - share a vision of creating a South African flagship to compete globally in science and technology.
Collaborating locally and abroad, its activities are rapidly and effectively applying knowledge and human resources to the science, engineering and technology value chain to support economic growth and sustainable development, locally and in the region. |
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Newsflashes
SERA Team warns climate change leading to more toxic inland water resources
Researchers from the SERA Water Focus Area Team have recently produced an article showing a strong positive correlation between the increase in surface water temperature and the increased occurrence of toxic blooms in South Africa's inland water resources.
SANReN's national backbone network completed
The DST and CSIR have announced that work on the national backbone network of the South African National Research Network (SANReN) has been completed ahead of schedule.
Wits officially on board as ACGT partner on Generation Challenge Programme
The ACGT has recently recommitted to its participation in the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) by signed a revised Consortium Agreement on behalf its partner institutions.
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