Research Scholarship 2009
20/08/2009
“Hosting High-Level Researchers” of the French National Research Agency
24/04/2015
SANORD is proud to announce that 7 theme group projects were awarded for 2014. SCO fulfilled its role and successfully paid out the budgeted funds to all the project leaders.
The SANORD board takes this opportunity to wish all the project team players well with their projects into the New Year. We hope to publish some updates of the outcomes of the projects once we get feedback from our project leaders.
The following is a summary of the institutions who received funding.
Institutions Project Leader Title
1. UKZN

UNAM

Gothenburg

Henry Mwambi, UKZN “First sub-Saharan Africa conference on Spatial Statistics,” 17-24 November, 2014
2. NMMU

CPUT

Uppsala

Thoko Mayekiso, NMMU “Improving University-Industry Collaboration”, AIMDay at NMMU
3. UCT

Aarhus

Gothenburg

Nick Shepherd, UCT “The role of heritage in nation building processes” Workshop at Aarhus University, Aug/December 2015.
4. Turku

Rhodes

UCT

Juha Kaskinen, Turku The “Get A LIFE” simulation tool and the ACG game, Meetings in RSA and a visit to TURKU University.
5. Lund

US

UFS

UKZN

Klaus Birkhofer, Lund

 

“Knowledge transfer between South Africa and Sweden to investigate threats to soil health and biological control in agricultural production, Meeting Stellenbosch, Spring 2015.
6. NAI

JYV

UWC

Annika Teppo, NAI

(Nordic Africa Institute)

“Africa at the crossroads of traditional and clinical medicine”, Workshop , Sweden, Autumn 2015

7. US

LUND,

Gothenburg,

Rhodes

 Liezel Frick, US “The role of doctoral education in early career academic development, Meeting, Stellenbosch, March, 2015