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Research, Innovation & Internationalisation
Research
A fundamental aspect of Nelson Mandela University, is producing high quality research that makes an impact.
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Innovation
Innovation is a fundamental part of the education landscape, allowing us to engage in creating new knowledge.
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International Office
Enriching diversity by drawing postgraduate students from SADC, other African countries, and the global community.
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Sustainability
We are committed to working toward making the combined global and continental vision of sustainability a reality.
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Research Chairs
Research Chairs strengthen and improve research and innovation capacity of public universities for producing high quality postgraduate students and research and innovation outputs.
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Research entities
Entities strengthen existing scholarly activities as well as open up new fields of research and scholarship that are consistent with the University’s strategic direction and priorities.
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Research Management
Research Management focuses on the needs of established researchers and manages issues such as grants, publication funding, research entities, internal research incentives and research information management systems.
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Research Development
RD focuses its activities around the development of new and emerging researchers and providing access to funding opportunities for postgraduate students.
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State-of-the-art Science Centre launched at Nelson Mandela University
Minister of Higher Education, Training, Science and Innovation, the Honourable Professor Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande today (Friday, 15 March 2024), launched Nelson Mandela University’s state-of-the-art Science Centre and other infrastructure that his department has funded.
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Bay team explains how renewables can fuel just energy transition
The transition to renewable energy can and must benefit all regardless of their financial status and allow the installation of clean energy systems in homes across SA.
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Mandela University palaeoscience student accepted for anthropology doctorate at New York University #R2bP
Reasons to be Proud #R2bP - Asithandile Ntsondwa’s academic journey, which began in Mthatha, followed by undergraduate and postgraduate science qualifications at Mandela University, will culminate with a PhD study in Anthropology at New York University (NYU).
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Research, learning and teaching to benefit from AI innovation collaboration
Nelson Mandela University’s Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences has been collaborating with Aptagrim, a software company in India, to contribute towards research, learning and teaching. This follows after Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research Professor Azwinndini Muronga signed a Collaborative Agreement with Aptagrim’s CEO, Sreegopal Mandapaka in October 2023.
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Gqeberha coding tool part of international Irish project
Mandela University and Tangible Africa’s landmark international educational research project was recently launched in Ireland for all primary schools in the Republic of Ireland to receive a free offline digital technology kit.
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Research, learning and teaching to benefit from AI innovation collaboration
Nelson Mandela University’s Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences has been collaborating with Aptagrim, a software company in India, to contribute towards research, learning and teaching. This follows after Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research Professor Azwinndini Muronga signed a Collaborative Agreement with Aptagrim’s CEO, Sreegopal Mandapaka in October 2023.
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AI: an educational reality
Higher education should embrace the positives and navigate the pitfalls of generative AI.
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The chatbot revolution
Spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, South African banks are shifting to chatbot-assisted customer service at a rapid rate, in line with global trends. Will clients accept the transition from human interaction to being served by a robot?
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INTERNATIONALISATION NEWS
Summer School 2023 in Technische Universität Braunschweig
Three Nelson Mandela University students have been selected to participate in the Technische Universitat Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig) International Summer School for German Language and Culture.
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Africa Week: Open Science, Open Africa
Nelson Mandela University participated in an Africa Week event organised and hosted by Future Africa at the University of Pretoria.
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Rare honour for computing sciences professor
A Nelson Mandela University professor has been selected as one of two African mentors for an elite global mentorship programme.
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DAAD South Africa Funding Opportunity
DAAD South Africa will be hosting a few Info-Sessions
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