South Africa Day in the UK
South Africa and the UK have a long period of strong relations in many fields of cooperation. Recent highlights of strategic interaction in S&T with the UK are elaborated on below.
Both Sir David King (the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Prime Minister) and Professor Gordon Conway (the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for International Development) visited South Africa in September 2007, for the purpose of strengthening the government-to-government relationship of the two nations.
As a result of the SA Day engagement between South Africa and the United Kingdom in 2006, DST supported four research proposals that were received through a call for proposals directly linked to this event. Currently DST considering appropriate funding instruments for the joint funding of specific research areas identified by the two countries.
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