@thandi25M

Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Innovation & Internationalization at Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
mandela.ac.za
Joined January 2016
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World IP Day is an opportunity to highlight the role that IP rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright), play in encouraging innovation and creativity #WIPD2023 #WomenAndIP #WorldIPDay #MakingSureItsPossible Livestream the event on youtube.com/watch?v=7x4AdFgh…
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World Intellectual Property Day celebration is underway @MandelaUni in Gqeberha. The focus for this year is on women innovators & women creators because women are not given the accolades they deserve, says Mojalefa Khoza of @theCIPC
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The world's largest exhibition in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry has officially begun at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan. @dsigovza is leading SA's participation in the Expo, scheduled from 15-17 March 2023.
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On 9 January 2023, WED Hackathon will see hundreds of engineering students from across the globe form teams, select a sustainable challenge, spend two weeks hacking their solution and battle it out for 1st place🥇@engineering_day Register here ➡️ worldengineeringday.net/hack…
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Congratulations to ISC Vice President Dr Salim S. Abdool Karim and Dr Quarraisha Abdool Karim for being awarded the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize by the government of Japan. @ProfAbdoolKarim 🏆Read about it here 👇cao.go.jp/noguchisho/english…

The Fourth Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize (Medical Research) - PRESS RELEASE - - Cabinet Office Home...

The Cabinet Office, government of Japan assists the general strategic functions of the Cabinet by drafting plans. This website explains about our important policies such as Economic and Fiscal...

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#DSIBV2022 #BudgetVote2022 Research Development and Support receives an allocation of R5,1 billion
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SAVE THE DATE: Do you work in #scienceadvice? Are you interested in #science4policy? Are you a science advisor, policy maker, researcher? Mark your agenda! The EU Science Advice Mechanism is organising a major conference in #Brussels on 27 & 28 April. scientificadvice.eu
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Invitation 💬First consultative forum on the mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub #vaccine #itspossible 📅09 December 2021 🕑 14:00 - 16:00 🖥️ Zoom : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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Thandi Mgwebi retweeted
Taslima@Dsttviljoen3 Dec 2021
#SFSA2021 Saving the best for last. We closing our 2021 event with a Plenary under the theme, Integrating the Humanities and Social Sciences into the COVID-19 response. The social impact of #COVID19 has been massive. Join us online as we unpack this topic.
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"Universities can participate in SDGs via research governance, implementing principles within institutions, and leadership within the sector and communities," says deputy vice chancellor @thandi25M of @MandelaUni. #THEglobalimpact .@UPTuks
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I do hope it is time to take a global approach for a global pandemic and stop the nationalism and hatred. It is not the scientists or nations fault if viruses move from animals to humans or if they evolve. Global solidarity for a global problem. – at Hillcrest, South Africa
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Interesting opinion piece from our very own Dr Thandi Mgwebi ( @thandi25M ) The value of lifelong learning #Education #STEM #Future #MondayMotivation Read More: womeninscience.africa/the-va…
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Nelson Mandela University and AZAPO invite you to the 11th Steve Bantu Biko Memorial Lecture on Sunday, 12 September 2021 at 13:00 SAST. Theme: 'Black Invisibility: Reframing Power Discourse in Global Politics'. Link to join: bit.ly/38GSHXO #SteveBiko
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Thandi Mgwebi retweeted
Sven E. Hug@hug_sven24 Jul 2021
"There is vast (historical) evidence that science is enormously productive, and has been also in times when quantitative performance evaluation was not practiced as a tool in science policy and university governance; that is, for most of modernity." journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Stop evaluating science: A historical-sociological argument - Olof Hallonsten, 2021

Although science has been a formidably successful force of social and technological development in the modern era, and a main reason for the wealth and well-bei...

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Fuuding for grrss roots innovation from #IDC_SA linkedin.com/posts/idc-sa_id… – at Johannesburg, South Africa
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Thandi Mgwebi retweeted
Africademics@africademics9 May 2021
Replying to @FulbrightPrgrm
@FulbrightPrgrm Foreign #Student Programme for #SouthAfrican graduate students (fully funded) 🇿🇦🎓
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@OpportunityDesk8 May 2021
Fulbright Foreign Student Program 2022-2023 for South African Graduate Students (Fully-funded) The Program provides grants for South African university graduates to pursue post-graduate studies at a US university in any subject. Details: bit.ly/3b8adpu @USEmbassySA
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Albert van Jaarsveld @IIASAVienna we need to use the experience of Covid to move to an alternative future that is more sustainable and better equipped to deal with global challenges #SciDipNet2021
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Check out: Digital and Green: Instruments for Driving Socio-Economic Recovery @ 2021 Annual Meeting aaas.confex.com/aaas/2021/me…

2021 Annual Meeting

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The Minister @DrZweliMkhize is engaging very comfortably with the science of Covid-19. He's showing a much deeper understanding of the nuances in his articulation. He's even brought together 'competing' scientific groups to the same table. Say what you will, but this is progress.
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