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The second call for applications for TRECCAfrica is currently open until 10 February 2013. The Transdisciplinary Training for Resource Efficiency and Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (TRECCAfrica) programme is an Intra-ACP academic mobility scheme which awards scholarships to postgraduate students and staff from various African countries to study at one of the consortium partners. In [...]

Postgraduate researchers from six African states recently gathered in Stellenbosch at the first TRECCAfrica** winter school. Set at Spier wine farm and the Sustainability Institute outside Stellenbosch, from 23 July to 3 August 2012, the winter school served as both an intellectual orientation for the intended studies of these researchers and an intensive summit on [...]

“The fact that the bulk of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be built in Africa, will help us reverse the brain drain from the continent,” Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice-Chancellor Prof Russel Botman told delegates to an international academic conference in Australia this morning (Tuesday, 12 June 2012). “South Africa won’t be the only [...]

Stellenbosch University’s Postgraduate and International Office will be hosting a seminar on African Academic Networks in Action on Monday (14 November) in celebration of the annual African University Day. It will take place at the Wallenberg Research Centre at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Study. The theme of the seminar is The promise of thematic [...]