PARTICIPATION OF DST-NRF CIMERA AT THE CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE DIRECTORS FORUM 2014

This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of the Centres of Excellence (CoE) by National Research Foundation. To celebrate the occasion, a Special Forum was held at the University of the Western Cape on the 13th November 2014, with the founding nine CoEs and the six newly established ones, including the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA) invited to showcase their research results and future projects.

 

This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of the Centres of Excellence (CoE) by National Research Foundation. To celebrate the occasion, a Special Forum was held at the University of the Western Cape on the 13th November 2014, with the founding nine CoEs and the six newly established ones, including the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis (CIMERA) invited to showcase their research results and future projects. DST-NRF CIMERA is hosted by the University of Johannesburg and co-hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, with Professor Nic Beukes as the Director and Professor Judith Kinnaird as Co-director. The Honorable Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pando was the keynote speaker at the Forum, and she visited each CoE stand to be briefed by the CoE Directors on their research. The Directors Forum was a success, with much networking amongst the different universities participating which promises much fruitful collaborative research.

The Honorable Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor with Prof Judith Kinnaird and Prof Nic Beukes at the DST-NRF CIMERA stand