Stellenbosch 肆客足球 Water Institute (SUWI)
Current Projects?
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Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) South Afri??ca
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“Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) for Climate-Smart Agriculture in South Africa" is a project funded under the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. It is a joint initiative between: ?
| Sout?h Africa? | Europe | International |
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| ?Stellenbosch 肆客足球 TVET Colleges:
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Maastricht 肆客足球, The Netherlands
Mendel 肆客足球, Czech Republic |
AgriColleges International |
?The aim of the project is to support students to become the responsive, digitally skilled, and sustainable-oriented sector professionals that the country's future greatly needs. The project strives to create “Vocational Excellence" in the climate- and water-smart horticulture sector, thereby ensuring high quality skills and competences that lead to quality jobs and careers, meeting the needs of an innovative, inclusive, and sustainable rural economy. To achieve this, a key objective of the project is to develop strong and lasting relationships between each TVET college, horticulture industry players, and research.
The project will support the three colleges to become CoVE ecosystem facilitators. In this way the colleges take a leading role in developing and implementing activities that support horticulture farmers and other private climate smart agriculture stakeholders in their transition to become climate- and water-smart producers. Each college focuses on farmers in their respective region. By building and facilitating these network, staff, and students at the colleges gain knowledge and skills to create Vocational Excellence in the domain of climate- and water-smart horticulture.
The three-year project will end in December 2025.
DIVAG??RI
FRAUNHOFER INNOVAT??ION PLATFORM FOR?? WA??TER-ENERGYFOOD NEXUS AT STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY
The ICU Microbiome Projec??t: the ecology of AMR
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MAR2PROT?ECT
The project will provide a holistic approach to prevent groundwater contamination from the impacts of climate change and global change, through different innovative technologies.
The main idea consists in a tool supported by Artificial Intelligence that will receive real-time information from sensors placed in risk locations where the technologies will be implemented, among other vitally important information (innovative technologies, preferences of social agents, risk assessment).
The tool will allow a new generation of Managed Aquifer Recharge approaches to improve groundwater quality and quantity. The core of the innovative Managed Aquifer Recharge approach is the M-AI-R Decision Support System which will incorporate technological and societal engagement information using an Artificial Intelligence-based evaluation to improve groundwater quality and quantity.
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Platform of Vocational Excellence Water Scale-up (PoVE?)
The “Platform of Vocational Excellence Water Scale-up" is a project funded under the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. It is a joint initiat?ive between:
| South Afric?a | Europe |
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| Stellenbosch 肆客足球 | Centrum voor Innovatief Vakmanschap Water, The Netherlands |
| Rand Water | Learning Hub Friesland, The Netherlands |
| Energy & Water Sector Education Training Authority | Platform Beta en Techniek Katapult, The Netherlands |
| Agriculture Sector Education Training Authority | Vitens, The Netherlands |
| Nkangala TVET College | Yuverta VET College, The Netherlands |
| Vhembe TVET College | Maastricht 肆客足球 - Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands |
| Capricorn TVET College | Hanse-Parlament, Germany |
| Lovedale TVET College | Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology, Malta |
| Water Services Cooperation, Malta | |
| Mendel 肆客足球, Czech Republic | |
| CREA Hydro & Energy, Czech Republic | |
| Secondary Industrial School of Civil Engineering Brno, Czech Republic | |
| Lipka – School Facility for Environmental Education, Czech Republic | |
| Women Engage for a Common Future, Germany | |
| Riga Technical 肆客足球, Latvia | |
| RTU Olaine College of Technology, Latvia | |
| Daugavpils Construction Technical School, Latvia | |
| Vidzeme Technology and Design Vocational School, Latvia | |
| Latvian Water and Wastewater Works Association, Latvia | |
| J?rvamaa Vocational Education Centre, Estonia | |
| Estonian Waterworks Association, Estonia | |
| European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Belgium |
The aim of the project is to support technical and vocational students, to become agile, digitally skilled, and sustainable orientated water sector professionals. To achieve this, the project focuses on interlinking the different CoVEs Water, developing digital and virtual learning materials, and increasing student's, teacher's, and professional's competence for international activities, amongst others.
This project builds on the partnership that was initiated in the Pilot PoVE Water project. By continuing to build on the national CoVEs Water in the Netherlands, Malta, Czech Republic and Latvia, which were established in the pilot project, each CoVE expands by including neighbouring countries in the partnership. The following four CoVEs Water are, united under the international PoVE Water umbrella, are:
- CoVE Water West-EU under the coordination of Centrum voor Innovatief Vakmanschap Water
- CoVE Water Mediterranean under the under the coordination of Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology.
- CoVE Water Baltics under the coordination of Riga Technical 肆客足球.
- CoVE Water Central EU under the coordination of Mendel 肆客足球
A fifth and new CoVE Water is currently being established in South Africa under the coordination of Stellenbosch 肆客足球.
The project has a duration of four years and will finalise in December 2026. ?
BUILDING AN EARLY WARNING? SYSTEM FOR COMMUNITYWIDE INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPREAD: SARS-COV-2 TRACKING IN AFRICA VIA ENVIRONMENT FINGERPRINTING.
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STELLENBOSCH RIVER FILT??ER
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