Posted on May 28, 2025
PRETORIA – Africa needs to fund its own research and development or risk being left behind by a rapidly shifting global order. That was the hard-hitting message on the second day of Africa Week 2025, currently underway at Future Africa, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) pan-African...
Posted on May 27, 2025
PRETORIA – Africa Week 2025 opened at the University of Pretoria (UP) on Africa Day, 25 May, with a call for bold, cross-sectoral collaboration to reimagine the continent’s future. The biennial summit, hosted at Future Africa, UP’s pan-African platform for collaborative...
Posted on May 26, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) has officially launched a dialogue on future sustainability through the Africa Week 2025 science leadership summit, hosted at UP’s Future Africa institute under the theme “Global Security – Global Africa”.
Posted on February 12, 2025
Future Africa, the University of Pretoria’s collaborative research platform, is at the forefront of fostering scientific leadership across the continent.
Posted on November 05, 2024
African science leaders are increasingly taking center stage in global science and technology discussions, according to Dr. Connie Nshemereirwe, Director of the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP).
Posted on November 01, 2024
Achieving food security is increasingly about getting food systems to function right. The concept, which cuts through all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has evolved in recent years, along with policies and programmes needed to attain it by 2030.
Posted on October 29, 2024
UP has been named a co-lead of the new African-German Centre for Sustainable & Resilient Food Systems & Applied Agricultural & Food Data Science, which is set to focus on research training & knowledge sharing in food systems & data science across Africa.
Posted on October 22, 2024
The University of Pretoria's Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) celebrates its 10th anniversary with a two-day event (Oct 25-26). The program empowers researchers as scientific leaders across Africa.
Posted on October 21, 2024
The University of Pretoria has launched the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence on Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS) to address critical challenges facing Africa's agricultural landscape. With rapid population growth and climate change threatening food production, this initiative aims...
Posted on October 07, 2024
Congratulations to Prof Wanda Markotter on her re-election as co-chair of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP). Her leadership continues to advance critical discussions on zoonotic diseases, global health, and the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and the environment. Prof...
Posted on September 16, 2024
Future Africa Empowers Youth At Bokamoso High School in Hammanskraal, Pretoria.
Posted on August 30, 2024
The University of Pretoria’s Future Africa (FA) has been awarded two Collaborative PhD Programmes by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA). The PhD programmes, funded by the Mastercard Foundation, are designed to significantly strengthen research capacity in the areas of...
Posted on August 16, 2024
The world is plagued with numerous challenges including climate change, diseases, poverty and malnutrition, with the negative impacts most felt in developing economies.
Posted on August 14, 2024
On 28 August 2024, Future Africa hosted the third installment of its Transdisciplinary Dialogue series
Posted on August 13, 2024
In her insightful op-ed, Dr Clarietta Chagwiza highlights the crucial role of science in addressing pervasive inequalities that hinder progress in developing economies. From gender and income disparities to unequal access to technology and education, these challenges prevent us from achieving the...
Posted on July 16, 2024
Future Africa has joined forces with the United Nations Coalition
Posted on June 07, 2024
FIVE YEARS OF FUTURE AFRICA: Since inception it has hosted some 3,000 events and 66,000 delegates from all over the world. Now it's looking ahead to the next five years.
Posted on June 06, 2024
For his menu at his new restaurant in Rosebank, chef Dario de Angeli uses some plants form UP's Future Africa garden.
Posted on May 15, 2024
Prof Belinda Reyers, Professor of Sustainability Science in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, has spent the past five years working with the team behind the UN Human Development Report as a member of their Advisory Group.
Posted on April 18, 2024
Do today’s academics and leaders have the skills to be changemakers? This and other questions were up for discussion when university leaders from 32 countries met at the Times Higher Education Pan-African Universities Summit, hosted by UP.
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