SDGs in action on the Mamelodi Campus

Posted on April 03, 2020

The Department of Business Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences has decided to continue with the vegetable garden that the 2019 first-year students had started at the Mamelodi Campus. After completing their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) lectures, this year’s...

UP MakerSpace Centre producing 3D visor frames for facial shields for healthcare workers

Posted on March 31, 2020

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) MakerSpace Centre is producing 3D-printed visor frames for facial shields for use by healthcare workers in Gauteng. There is a shortage of facial shields for use by healthcare workers, who are testing and treating members of the public for COVID-19. Isak...

ANALYSIS: Sustainable development goals need a final push with just 10 years to go

Posted on March 17, 2020

Since their adoption by 193 countries in 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have been hailed as the “most ambitious” and “transformative” agenda for fixing the world’s biggest challenges to date.

UP partners with Business Day for inaugural conference on impact of 4IR in the workplace

Posted on March 11, 2020

Job creation, collaboration and reskilling employees for the workplace were key themes that emerged from the Business Day Focus 4.0 Conference held recently at the Kyalami International Convention Centre.

South African universities and the SDGs

Posted on February 14, 2020

The South African SDG Hub hosted a seminar attended by participants from academic and research institutions, government and civil society. The purpose of the seminar was to network and to get a sense of the barriers and opportunities of research uptake by policymakers.

South African scholars from the University of Pretoria visit the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin

Posted on February 04, 2020

The Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin at Zeppelin University has been collaborating with the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) at the University of Pretoria since 2017/2018. Numerous mutual visits have marked the excellent academic cooperation between the two...

The Street Store@UP tackles student food insecurity

Posted on December 13, 2019

Food insecurity is a rampant challenge in the South African tertiary education environment and has a huge impact on the health, well-being and academic performance of affected students. BCom (Law) student Paseka Gaola is on a mission to make a difference

UP signs up for City of Tshwane Inter-University Innovation Challenge to boost service delivery

Posted on December 02, 2019

The University of Pretoria is participating in an inter-university innovation challenge with Tshwane University of Technology and UNISA in an attempt to help the City of Tshwane with ideas for innovative and efficient service delivery.