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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation, invites applications from students wishing to pursue a career in research, technology development and innovation as well as corporate/support areas. Read more...
Closing date for applications is 15 July 2022
On Wednesday, 1 June 2022, the CSIR team joined the Full-Value chain Optimised Climate User-centric Services for Southern Africa (FOCUS-Africa) workshop on climate services for food and water security. The main objective of the three-day workshop, which took place in Pretoria, was to get a better understanding of the local needs and requirements for related case studies in food and water security.
On Wednesday, 25 and Thursday, 26 May 2022, the National Cleaner Production Centre South Africa (NCPC-SA) hosted its Fifth Biennial Industrial Efficiency Conference at the CSIR International Convention Center (ICC) where the CSIR’s Energy and Water Centres exhibited their technologies.
“This appointment came about as a result of the collaborative work that we, at the CSIR, have been doing in the past years with the UJ, supervising students pursuing their Master’s and PhDs in metallurgy, as well as publishing a number of outputs with these students. It is a recognition of the value that we here at the CSIR and colleagues at UJ’s Department of Metallurgy can generate through collaboration,” says Prof. Machio.
More than 30 000 scientific publications have cited Professor Suprakas Sinha Ray’s nanotech inventions and discoveries over the last 15 years.
Media advisory: 11 May 2022
The level of illiteracy remains a critical educational issue in South Africa. Many school learners face barriers to reading and learning because of factors such as visual impairment and dyslexia, among other many barriers to education.
The Aeronautical Society of South Africa (a division of the Royal Aeronautical Society) has elected CSIR’s Marié Botha, president for this term.
The Aeronautical Society of South Africa (AeSSA) is a fully-fledged Division of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). Its membership comprises aerospace professionals, corporate company members, and enthusiastic aviation amateurs.
In the latest edition of ScienceScope, learn more about R&D to build competitive industries, such as a novel packaging solutions for the food and beverage sector, and work that contributes to a capable state, such as the development of a novel smartphone-based system for point-of-care diagnostics.