Tuks Young Research Leader Programme
The TYRLP programme aims to grow early career academics at UP in the areas of thought leadership, team development, engagement and collaboration, with the intention of enabling them to solve the complex issues that face society.
Africa WILL
This initiative will explore the existing knowledge about women in science and examine societies perception of women in science.
Afro-Science Snippets
This project aims to develop a mobile application that will assist scientists to communicate in sound-bites.This application will alert users and package messages as sound-bites with links to research summaries.
Bio Medical Africa Innovation
Biomedical R&D is a key to African Development but a major barrier to success is access to research materials. Cost, delivery time, source, procurement methods and government restriction/allowances will be explored.
Capacity Development in Africa
The ultimate goal is to maintain a sustainable mentor-mentee cycle for purpose of capacity building and networking.
Coming to Africa – ALSP 2015
This project aims to probe the values of our culture for effective leadership and cultivating an inclusive mindset by bringing together willing scientists and community elders.
Integrating Community participation into appropriate technology development and implementation
Appropriate technology implementation should foster community empowerment and sustainability by community participation.
Gender & Science in Africa – ASLP 2015
Gender & Science in Africa is a project that aims at promoting and fostering Female African Leadership in Science by setting forth an ongoing research agenda that will tackle cross regional and trans-disciplinary issues related to the question of Gender and Science across Africa.
Leaders without Borders – ASLP 2016
This Projects aims to Africanise Science leadership, develop a critical-mass of qualified science leaders in Africa and create a stronger and sustainable network for Africa scientific leaders reflected in the quality of science.
Science Capacity Building in Africa
This initiative will stimulate training programmes that will focus on producing researchers with the capacity to conduct, publish and lead locally relevant and high-quality research that will have socio-economic impact in Africa.