2020 Contribution of the Chair to events

SARIMA Virtual Conference.

From Support to Strategy to Impact: Broadening the Scope of Research and Innovation Management. 4- 6 August 2020

Medición de la Innovación – in Spanish

Organised by Red Gobernanza y Gestión de Conocimiento y CTI, Colombia.

We Robot 2020 Conference, Canada

WeRobot is the premiere international conference on law and policy relating to Robotics. This was one hosted by the University of Ottawa.

The South Africa – Netherlands Education and Research Dialogue

Resilient Cities

Organised by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Dutch organisation for internationalisation in education (Nuffic)

Trilateral Research Chair Launch

Having had to cancel the Chair’s planned launch in South Africa in April 2020 because of the COVID-19 lockdowns, the Chair instead used the opportunity of the Transformative Innovation Policy 2020 Forum event in October to launch the project. Erika Kraemer-Mbula presented a brief outline of the project’s intentions and activities. Following this, several of the project’s PhD students presented brief outlines of their research. And the session finished with a panel discussion involving the three PIs of the project partner organisations.

http://www.tipconsortium.net/news/academics-and-policy-makers-mobilise-to-transform-innovation-in-south-africa/

Discussion on Living Catchments Experimental Policy Engagement

This was a session held during the Transformative Innovation Policy 2020 Forum to reflect on an Experimental Policy Engagement involving a live project in South Africa called ‘Living Catchments’ and members of the Chair project along with members of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC). The Living Catchments project was in the process of trying to bring together practitioners and local stakeholders around strategic water source areas (SWSAs) in South Africa who are working in silos, namely those who are focussed on ecological infrastructure and those focussed on the built infrastructure, to improve the sustainability of SWSAs as part of efforts to improve South Africa’s water security. The Chair’s involvement was to help the Living Catchments project team to reflect on their theory of change such that the activities would become more transformative. The purpose of the session was to discuss immediate reflections on the experience, drawing from across the participants in the engagement.

http://www.tipconsortium.net/news/academics-and-policy-makers-mobilise-to-transform-innovation-in-south-africa/

2020 Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC), New Decade, New Realities: Hindsight, Insight, Foresight.

CSPC is Canada’s largest science policy conference. 90 panel sessions, open mics, virtual functions, 450+ panelists from five continents

1700+ delegates.

The Africa Research and Impact Network International Conference on Africa in the Post Covid-19 World: Lessons for Research and Policy

Dates: 18th – 20th November 2020

Global Research Council (GRC)

Virtual Conference on

Responsible Research Assessment

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in collaboration with the UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa, delivered a GRC Virtual

Conference on RRA during 23-27

November 2020. 

Barcelona Innovation Day – London – 26^th November 2020

Organised by SciTech DiploHub (Barcelona Science and Technology Diplomacy Hub), the public-private organization in charge of deploying Barcelona’s science and technology diplomacy strategy and representing its innovation and higher education ecosystem worldwide.

Africa Knows Conference – 2-4 December 2020

Organised by the Leiden African Studies Assembly (Leiden ASA)