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Common Good First - digital storytelling for Social Innovation

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

...igh usage of mobile phone technology in South Africa, we will ensure that these platforms are at the heart of our content and application development. •We will actively promote and support University/Enterprise cooperation, based on deep knowledge of the digital landscape in SA, so as to promote take-up of web and mobile technologies in the region, in line with government objectives •We will crea ...
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Caring Society: Building Communities, Social Inclusion and Health Development

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Faced with a so-called ‘quadruple burden of disease’, the South Africans’ health situation is challenged in various aspects. For this reason, SA President Jacob Zuma announced in his state of the Nation that health, and more specifically building a high quality caring capacity and promoting a healthy lifestyle, is one of the principal priorities of the government to work on in the coming 5 years. ...
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Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Managing language and social diversity in classrooms

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...e issues across the educational continuum and through international collaboration. The project involves HEIs and linking schools (primary and secondary) as partners from four countries: Limerick University and Mary Immaculate College in Ireland, Professionshøjskolen UCC in Denmark, the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in No ...
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A people-centred approach through Self-Management and Reciprocal learning for the prevention and management of Type-2-Diabetes (SMART2D)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Background:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and pre-diabetes contribute increasingly to the global burden of disease with the health systems struggling to effectively manage prevention and control. This necessitates contextually appropriate, policy relevant solutions with high scale-up potential. The study is built on a consortium experienced in implementation and cross-cultural translation of dise ...
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Enhancing Postgraduate Environments

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

...its vision and mission and available resources. At institutional level, the extended tailor-made programme designed by the participants will be presented to their research office, faculty and university leadership, anticipating approval and implementation of (essential elements of) the proposed programme to enhance their postgraduate environment.
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Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research across Europe and Africa (B3Africa)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

B3Africa - Bridging Biobanking and Biomedical Research across Europe and Africa will dramatically improve and facilitate the development of better predictive, preventive and personalized healthcare worldwide. The rapidly evolving African biobanks are an invaluable resource: The African population has the greatest genomic diversity on the planet and represents an incredible resource of information ...
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Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP)

Start date: Dec 19, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Understanding the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time is one of the great challenges of astrophysics. At the present day, galaxies found in different environments are very different from each other. To understand how this came to be we need to map a wide range of environments in the early Universe using telescopes that probe the different physical processes. Many astronomical facilities have ...
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Co-creating Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Solutions (MareFrame)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"MareFrame seeks to remove barriers preventing a more widespread use of an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM). It will develop assessment methods and a Decision Support Framework (DSF) for management of marine resources and thereby enhance the capacity to provide integrated assessment, advice and decision support for an EAFM. Enabling comparisons between relevant ""what-if"" s ...
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Entrepreneurship, Modernization and Innovation in SoutH Africa

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2017,

...ized there was a need for a capacity building project in the region. As previous projects had focused on mobility of students and staff, we wanted to create a project that would train and support the university staff in developing innovation in their universities.We put together a set of models which would affect employment of graduates, operation of innovation centers as well as structured meetin ...
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Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline (PHARMASEA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The PharmaSea project focuses on obstacles in marine biodiscovery research, development and commercialization and brings together a broad interdisciplinary team of academic and industry researchers and specialists to address and overcome these. The partners are ideally placed to demonstrate how to widen the bottlenecks and increase the flow of ideas and products derived from the marine microbiome ...
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Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet (CONFINE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE infrastructure by establishing a new facility built on the federation of existing community IP networks constituted by more than 20,000 nodes and 20,000 Km of links. These community networks incorporate a large and wide variety of commodity ...
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Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GREEN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"GREEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at an understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them.Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century risin ...
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Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

In sub-Saharan Africa health improvement remains a major development challenge. A growing evidence base demonstrates that health systems must be strengthened to secure progress in addressing mortality and tackling disease burdens. Yet there is a dearth of African research to support such action. African Ministers of Health and international agencies have, therefore, called for accelerated developm ...
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Multi-disciplinary University Traditional Health Initiative (MUTHI): Building Sustainable Research Capacity on Plants for Better Public Health in Africa (MUTHI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

It is recognised that research must be a basis for better health throughout Africa (e.g. Global Ministerium Forum on Research for Health, Bamako 2008, Beijing declaration 2008). As a consequence It is a priority to build research capacities in the African continent that will set good standards for development of improved health security and systems in the future. In several African countries west ...
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Accessing Medicines in Africa and South Asia (AMASA)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"The main aim of the proposed research is to investigate how the interplay of patent regimes, pharmaceutical regulation, availability of drug production facilities, health care infrastructure and service provision, and engagement by foreign donors influence appropriate, affordable access to medicines in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We aim to map patterns of production, distribution, supply a ...
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Genotype-To-Phenotype Databases: A Holistic Solution (GEN2PHEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genetic variation databases towards increasingly holistic views into Genotype-To-Phenotype (G2P) data, and to link this system into other biomedical knowledge sources via genome browser functionality. The project will establish the technological building-blocks needed for the evolution of today’s diverse G2P databases into a future seaml ...
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Systematic functional analysis of intracellular parasitism as a model of genomes conflict (SYSCO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

The research program is a multidisciplinary functional genomics approach to study fundamental biological processes relevant to human health and to develop bioinformatics tools in systems biology. It will decipher the complex regulatory networks that control basic cellular processes in the context of intracellular pathogen infection as a paradigm of host/pathogen genomes conflict.This project will ...
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Free/Libre and Open Source Software: International Cooperation development roadmap (Flossinclude)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Description With partners around the globe, the FLOSSInclude project is developing a roadmap for international co-operation to realise the potential of FLOSS as a tool for social and economic development.The Southern FLOSS ChallengeFree/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) holds great potential for developing countries. There are no licence ...
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EUSA_ID - Capacity Building in Higher Education for an improved co-operation between the EU and SA in the field of Development Studies

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

EUSA_ID offers study, training and research periods in Europe for South African Master and PhD candidates and staff and provides European PhD candidates the opportunity to spend a research period in South Africa. 84 mobilities (18 European, 66 South African) cover Master students (40,5%), PhD candidates (38,1%) and staff (21,4%) of TG I (76%) and II (24%). The partnership consists of 6 South Afric ...
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EUROSA+: Europe & South Africa Partnership for Human Development

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

EUROSA+ (Europe & South Africa Partnership for Human Development) is a structured and institutionally embedded mobility project involving 9 European, 10 South African and 6 associated partners, aiming to promote mobility activities for South African and European individuals at master, PhD and staff level. The diverse, but complementary EUROSA+ partnership is dedicated to implement a well-functioni ...
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AESOP - A European and South African Partnership on Heritage and Past

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

The AESOP multidisciplinary and intersectorial Erasmus Mundus consortium co-coordinated by the University Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3 (France) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) is composed of 11 European and 9 South African university partners, as well as six additional associate members. AESOP involves 8 thematic fields and encourages the collaboration between different sectors a ...
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Europe and South Africa Partnership for Human Development

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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European-South African programme in tuning for regional needs in higher education

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Africa

Start date: Jul 15, 2012,

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S1-L14 Europe & South Africa Partnership for Human Development II

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The EUROSA II partnership aims to contribute to redressing past inequities and imbalances and to improve the participation rate of historically disadvantaged individuals in higher education. Capacity building and human development, with specific attention to South African’s designated groups, through master, PhD and staff mobility from South Africa to Europe are at the core of the project. The pri ...
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S1-L14 Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Africa II

Start date: Jul 15, 2011,

The Erasmus Mundus Partnership programme aims at mutual enrichment and better understanding between the European Union and Third-Countries. It is designed to foster institutional cooperation in the field of higher education between the European Union and Third-Countries through a mobility scheme addressing student and staff exchanges for the purpose of studying, teaching, training and research. Se ...
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S1-L14-EUROSA-Europe & South Africa Partnership for Human Development

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

A diverse and complementary partnership of 9 European, 8 South African and 4 associated partners are dedicated to implement a well functioning mobility scheme taking into account the capacity and expertise of the European partners and the needs of the South African partners. The carefully selected associated partners will contribute a great deal in promoting the project within the wider higher edu ...
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S1-L14-EMA2SA-Erasmus Mundus Action 2 South Africa

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

The "EMA2SA" consortium (Erasmus Mundus Action 2 for South Africa) aims at building strong multilateral and multidisciplinary relationships between universities in South Africa and Europe. Its EMA2 project connects higher education in Europe and South Africa with guarantees for collaboration and exchange leading to a broad mutual understanding. By exchanging master and doctoral students, as well a ...
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