Monday:
Welcome and official opening by Prof Brian O’Connell, rector UWC, Cape Town, South-Africa
Video message from Prof. Dr Ton Dietz, the initiator of the ‘Development Policy Research Network’
Final "Collaborate to Innovate" seminar programme
Monday 8 November :
13.30 Welcome and official opening by Prof Brian O’Connell, rector UWC, Cape Town, South-Africa
13.45 Video message from Prof. Dr Ton Dietz, the initiator of the ‘Development Policy Research Network’
14.00 Introduction: Dr Karen Vandevelde, Ghent University, Belgium: ‘Collaborate to innovate… how the workshop idea came to life’
Workshop venue and hotel information
Workshop venue:
The workshop will take place at the “School of Public Health” Building, Venue 1a and 1b at the University of the Western Cape, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
See here for campus map.
The school of Puclic health is building nr 89 on this map.
The submission for the call for paper and application for the travel grant is closed
The call for papers is now closed. Selected papers for the workshop in Cape Town will be disclosed on 30 September 2010.
The application for the travel grants for the workshop is also no longer possible.
Call for papers - CLOSED!
The call for papers is now open (closed) with a view to inviting participants to attend this workshop. The focus is on sharing best practices and inspiring each other with experiences of successful initiatives. We aim to present approx. 25 papers during this workshop, with each lasting 20-25 minutes. If we receive far more proposals than we can accommodate during the workshop, we may ask for a number of these proposals to be modified into conference posters, with a short presentation time of 5 minutes being set aside during a special poster presentation session.
Workshop, 8-10 November 2010
The University of the Western Cape from South Africa, together with Ghent University, Belgium (UGent) and Wageningen University Research (WUR) Centre for Development Innovation, the Netherlands , NUFFIC (the Netherlands) and VLIR-UOS (Belgium) are organising an international workshop on the role of university collaboration in innovation strategies, to be hosted by the University of Western Cape.
The knowledge triangle in developing countries: a missed opportunity in university development cooperation?
One-year process building on the consensus that science and technology are crucial for development and that the knowledge triangle - education, research and innovation - is important for a knowledge-based society. By taking cooperation between Dutch, Flemish and Southern African Universities as a case in point, a workshop will be organised to discuss to what extent the (potential) role of African universities in relation to the knowledge triangle is sufficiently acknowledged and supported.
