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
Europe backs African research grants project
An Africa-wide scheme for research grants and scientific awards has been given high priority for financial backing by top African and European officials.
Agricultural developments 'failing to reach farmers'
Agricultural research advances in Africa are not reaching farmers in the field, top African scientists have warned.
SA Research Chairs Initiative suffers funding setback
South Africa's Science and Technology Department (DST) has failed to secure the R180 million in funding needed to boost the number of research positions in the country.
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