In this session, researchers who were funded under the NRF/STINT bilateral South Africa-Sweden Bilateral Scientific Research Cooperation Programme for 2017 – 2019 joint projects are expected to provide a presentation whereby they:
- share and highlight noteworthy achievements within their projects
- share plans, if any, on future collaboration within their projects
- provide lessons learned
Below is the list of the projects that have been funded during the period:
- High Energy Density and Power: Hybrid Supercapacitors from Renewable Sources | Patrik Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology) and Ncholu Manyala (University of Pretoria)
- Birds as city slickers? Unravelling physiological mechanisms of how birds cope with urban life | Caroline Isaksson (Lund University) and Arjun Amar (University of Cape Town)
- The influence of homogeneous and non-homogeneous I-131 and I-123 SPECT activity distributions on patient-specific three-dimensional dosimetry | Michael Ljungberg (Lund University) and Johan van Staden (University of the Free State)
- STEM Pedagogical Competence in contexts of HE transformation | Thomas Olsson (Lund University) and Christine Winberg (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)
- Structural studies of C-SA HIV Protease and it’s inhibition | Katja Petzold (Karolinska Institutet) and Gert Kruger (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
- Ectopic fat deposition and insulin resistance: understanding the link in black SA women | Tommy Olsson (Umeå University) and Julia Goedecke (South African Medical Research Council)
- Health Policy and Systems Research: Strengthening community-based health systems | Anna-Karin Hurtig (Umeå University) and Helen Schneider (University of Western Cape)
- Improving performance of wide-bandgap materials | Vanya Darakchieva (Linköping University) and Hendrik Swart (University of the Free State)
- Unravelling the multilingual mind | Marianne Gullberg (Lund University) and Emanuel Bylund Spångberg (Stellenbosch University)
- Adaptation of language assessments for Swedish, SeSotho and SeTswana Speaking children | Christina Samuelsson (Linköping University) and Michelle Pascoe (University of Cape Town)
