Satellite Programmes

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.

Nigerian-SLP

Appropriate technology implementation should foster community empowerment and sustainability by community participation.

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.

Science literacy & Transdisciplinary Communication

The project aims to develop science leadership in Africa through science literacy and transdisciplinary communication by simplifying scientific concepts in a manner that can easily be understood and utilised by communities.

FAMS – Forum for African Marine Science

The goal is to connect African scholars and their institutions working in Marine Sciences.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Tshwane

The BEST project aims to investigate landscape design practices for biodiversity enhancement, explore native garden design ecologies in urban spaces, and develop local guidelines for ecological landscape design that are socio-culturally and ecologically relevant.

WE – Africa Lab

WE-Africa is an alliance of likeminded scholars and practitioners who share a common concern about the current socio-economic conditions in which we live and are willing to work together to promote a transition to a wellbeing-based economy for Africa.

UP Big Q

The #UPBigQ aims to grow the University of Pretoria's research culture, get everyone excited about responding to questions with real-life relevance, encourage collaboration across the university and communicate to the general public that we're doing research that matters.

Freedom from Violence

A multidisciplinary international research collaboration aimed at contributing to the realisation of SDG Goal 16 in Africa – promoting peaceful societies, access to justice, and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions.

Flexible Thinkers for Future Africa – ASLP 2015

There is a wealth of educational material on the world wide web, but this is largely inaccessible to the majority of learners in Africa, who do not have a high-speed internet connection.

Bioprospecting and Bioecomony

The aim of the project is to combine, biodiversity, science and traditional knowledge; and make it accessible to the modern market by tapping into the rich pool of diversity for medicinal and cosmeceutical purposes.