03/20/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 03/20/2024 12:15
In 2006 the Department of Science and Technology (DST), now the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), and the National Research Foundation (NRF) launched the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI). The University of Cape Town (UCT) is one of 23 public universities and nine science councils to partake in this endeavour. Of the 275 research chairs that have been awarded across the country, 49 have been based at UCT.
To date, 18 of these chairs and two Centres of Excellence (CoEs) have completed their 15 years of funding from the DSI/NRF. UCT also hosted a node of a third CoE. Their work, both innovative and impactful, spanned across a wide variety of fields.
The initiative's goals as determined by the DSI and NRF aimed to:
While the university was committed to providing an enabling environment to ensure the success of each chair and centre, they, in turn, continue to bolster research expertise and leadership at UCT. It is no coincidence that the vast majority of these chairs and centres align with the research strategy and broad research focus areasin which UCT has expertise.
The 5 research focal areas of Vision 2030 are:
Building a healthy Africawith the subthemes:
Resource efficiency and nature-based solutions for sustainable developmentwith the subthemes:
Advancing Africawith the subthemes
Our southern locationwith the subthemes
On being humanwith the subthemes
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