The 4th Biennial SANORD International Conference is only a few days away. We are happy to welcome more than a hundred delegates both from the Nordic and the southern African region to Malawi.

‘This is a rare opportunity that most researches do not have outside their interest groups. Therefore, I am convinced that SANORD has a very bright future in promoting both north-south and south-south dialogue and academic linkages that are truly of mutual benefit to partner universities’, says Dr Emmanuel Fabiano, SANORD Chairperson and Vice Chancellor from the University of Malawi. > See the conference programme

New SANORD website was published successfully late October. Some site content is still under construction and all feedback and content proposals will be highly appreciated, please email Maureen Davis (mdavis@uwc.ac.za).

You can also find SANORD now on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Please, follow us in order to get the latest news from SANORD members. We would also encourage all our members to participate in posting content on all our channels.

The autumn 2013 call for applications for the North-South-South Higher Education Institution Network Programme (NSS) is open now, and until December 2, 2013. NSS programme opens up opportunities for cooperation between higher education institutions in Finland and developing countries. > Read more

Dung beetles sporting custom made caps and boots entered the annals of the Ig Nobel Prize when Professor Marcus Byrne from Wits University and his colleagues from Lund University in Sweden were awarded Ig Nobel Prizes in Astronomy and Biology for conducting research that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think. > Read more

The University of the Witwatersrand collaborates with several scientists and institutions from Nordic countries on a range of science and health sciences projects. One of the key partnerships around public health exists between Wits and the Umeå University in Sweden. > Read more

UniPID’s FinCEAL Researcher's Infobank has been launched! The database supports exchange of knowledge, and acts as a contact point to Finnish researchers and expertise focused on Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. > FinCEAL Infobank

For many years it has been a tradition to invite the new Nobel Prize laureates to Uppsala University in connection with the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm. The programme for the visit includes a reception with the Vice-Chancellor and lunch at Uppsala Castle, but also much appreciated and well-attended open lectures by the guest laureates. > Read more

Linköping University has numerous on-going and up-coming R&D activities connected to Africa. Knowledge and information about many activities are, however, not always known to other actors at
LiU that might be interested. The aim of this workshop is hence to provide an informal “meeting ground” where we can find contacts and learn more about LiU’s R&D activities in Africa. > Read more