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
Language and mathematics converge to provide insight
In the March 2008 edition of the CSIR Science Scope, Dr Etienne Barnard, co-leader of the Digital@SERA Human Language Technologies research group, contributes to the publication's theme of "the art and science of modeling and simulation".
International sensory science experts bring new insights to food science
The European Sensory Network (ESN) - an international association of leading academic and research institutions in the field of sensory and consumer sciences - met for four days at the University of Pretoria's Main Campus in mid-April.
Environmental research giant celebrates 10 years of excellence
The Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrated its tenth year with a colloquium and gala dinner on 14 May 2008.
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