The Science and Technology Agreement was signed between DST and the Slovak Ministry of Education on 15 May 2006. A high-level DST delegation visited Slovak science institutions and established linkages in a large number of focus areas, namely: Renewable Energy, Material Science and Solid-State Physics, Laser Science, Accelerator Science, High-Energy Physics, Theoretical Physics, Quantum Computing and Cryptography, and Biotechnology.
A successful call for proposals was launched, covering not only priority areas of the South African national research and development strategy but also projects addressing the grand challenges in the 10-Year Innovation Plan of DST. It is anticipated that the future level of cooperation will be strengthened through collaboration in the following areas: Nuclear Physics for application in the medical field, Laser Technology and Quantum Physics.
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