| 27.02.13 |
The Research Council of Norway will be the Norwegian partner in a new programme aiming to advance research cooperation with South Africa. This is clear from the newly signed framework agreement between the two countries’ authorities.
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| 07.09.12 |
IIASA SA YSSP Call for Applications The National Research Foundation (NRF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) in South Africa have developed a novel and innovative initiative with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to establish the Southern African Young
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| 02.07.12 |
The new agreement has still not been signed. However, we understand that the text of the agreement is now under final scrutiny by legal experts.
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| 16.01.12 |
The preparation and signing of a new cooperation agreement has been taking longer than expected, but work is under progress. The signing of the new agreement is now (tentatively) scheduled for February.
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| 06.01.12 |
A simple video is now available which explains the Research Council of Norway’s grant application system and how applications are processed.
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| 08.11.11 |
A paint-maker in South Africa left behind his or her grindstone, stirring stick, tiny mixing bowl and other tools in a cave – for 100,000 years. These groundbreaking findings are a result of a project partly funded by the South Africa - Norway Programme for Research Co-operation.
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| 02.09.11 |
The Republic of South Africa's Minister for Higher Education and Training, Mr. “Blade” Nzimande, recently visited the Research Council of Norway, as part of President Jacob Zuma’s state visit to this country.
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| 15.06.11 |
Bjørn Tore Kjellemo took up his post as the new Director of the Department for Cooperation and Development Research this week.
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| 07.06.11 |
On June 2nd, the 9th Annual Meeting in the Programme for Research Cooperation between South Africa and Norway was held in Pretoria. This was the last formal event in a programme that was initiated in November 2001 and officially ended 31 March 2011.
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| 21.02.11 |
Although the programme has not formally come to an end, a concluding conference was held in Kameeldrift outside Pretoria 19 -21 September. 24 out of 27 projects were represented, most by both the South African and Norwegian partners. More than 70 participants attended.
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| 06.12.10 |
It survives in a suffocating, toxic environment where no other vertebrate can. Researchers from Norway and southern Africa have discovered together how this unique fish species withstands the harshest of conditions.
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| 14.06.10 |
Professor Steven Chown of Stellenbosch University was awarded the first Martha T. Muse award art the YPI Oslo Science Conference. Together with professor Hans Petter Leinås, Chown leads one of the cooperation projects supported by the South Africa – Norway programme.
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| 07.06.10 |
What can minuscule soil-dwellers teach us about nature's adaptation to climate change? Researchers in Norway and South Africa are using springtails as model systems in order to study how different species respond when the climate changes.
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| 11.12.09 |
The Queen of Norway and science ministers addressed the joint opening of two seminars, before the Royal couple proceeded to visit a TB-clinic where South African and Norwegian medical researchers collaborate.
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| 11.12.09 |
The Queen of Norway and science ministers addressed the joint opening of two seminars, before the Royal couple proceeded to visit a TB-clinic where South African and Norwegian medical researchers collaborate.
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| 11.12.09 |
Children in a suburb of Cape Town could barely contain their excitement when Their Majesties King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway visited a local tuberculosis research clinic.
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| 03.12.09 |
Seminars on research and higher education were held in connection with the King and Queen of Norway's State Visit to South Africa at the end of November. Her Majesty Queen Sonja presided over the joint opening of the seminars.
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| 15.10.09 |
The Joint Committee (JC), which is the steering committee of the Programme of research Co-operation between South-Africa and Norway, met 8 March in Oslo to decide on the allocation of research grants to proposals received by September 2nd this year.
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| 23.06.09 |
Players in the Norwegian research community have been sent a clear message: Norway has a major task ahead of it in helping to solve the challenges presented by globalisation. Internationalisation of research is highlighted as a main priority of Norwegian research policy.
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| 19.06.09 |
The need for more interdisciplinary research was a key topic at the Research Council's large-scale globalisation conference at the beginning of June. The conference marked the end of the start of a debate about how globalisation challenges will affect the Norwegian research agenda.
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| 28.05.09 |
Health professionals in more than 20 African and Asian countries are registering information using computer software and a database coordinated by the University of Oslo. This may lead to improved health services for millions of people.
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| 23.01.09 |
The workshop, organised by the Department of Science and Technology in South Africa (DST), was held in Pretoria 17th September 2008.
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| 19.01.09 |
H.E. Ismail Coovadia's came to the end of his term of duty in December after having served as South Africa's ambassador to Norway (and Iceland) since May 2004.
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| 11.09.08 |
In connection with the annual Joint Committee Meeting, the Department of Science & Technology (DST) will host an Innovation workshop on September 17th in Pretoria.
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| 25.10.07 |
Please note that Friday, 26 October is the deadline for registration to the conference. We must also warn you that all the hotel rooms we have booked are now occupied, so if you have not registered yet and need a hotel, you will have to arrange for it on your own.
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| 15.10.07 |
The conference will be opened by the South African Minister of Science & Technology, Hon. Mosibudi Mangena, and the Norwegian Minister for Education and Research, Hon. Øystein Djupedal.
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| 05.09.07 |
The Research Council of Norway, together with the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF), will organize an international, academic conference based on the Norway-South Africa research programme, on October 31st - November 2nd. The University of Oslo (UiO) will be hosting the conference at Harald Schjelderup's House (the Psychology Building), Forskningsveien 3, UiO.
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| 21.03.07 |
The Joint Committee (JC), which is the steering committee of the Programme of research Co-operation between South-Africa and Norway, met 14 to 15 March 2007 in Oslo to decide on the allocation of research grants to proposals received by October 12th last year. It was assisted by four scientific experts from each country.
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| 06.01.06 |
The University of Oslo will celebrate ten years of academic partnership between South Africa and Norway later this year. A series of ?happenings?, known as the Oslo Celebrations, will take place in Oslo over three months as of August this year. The principal academic event is a scientific conference planned for 1 ? 2 November 2007. In addition to a few identified key-note speakers, all researchers who received grants during the first phase of the research co-operation programme will be invited to present their principal results from their respective projects. Other interested academics, including the applicants to the latest call for proposals, will also be welcome to attend. More details on the conference and the Oslo Celebratons as a whole will be posted on these pages as time goes by.
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| 06.01.06 |
The Secretariat had hoped to make a call for proposals in mid-March with application deadline set at June 8th this year. Unfortunately, it is now clear that this will not be possible, as the Business Plan (agreement) between South African and Norwegian authorities, and which is the basis for the whole co-operation programme, has yet to be signed.
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