REPS 2016, 1 King Williams Town Road, Alice (2026)

21/11/2017

I smell the beautiful breeze of Reps 2019 approaching with a hook "From Coast to Coast" introducing Ocean Energy... Mhhhhhhm that will be one hack of an event. Watch this space...

03/11/2016

Hi Tsibiso,do you have Msc process engineering students who are looking for work,they must be SA black preferable,willing to be based in Durban,if so,kindly ask them to email me their Cv's urgently

10/10/2016

DST-NRF INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2017/18

CLOSING DATE: 07 November 2016

The National Research Foundation (NRF) is responsible for the management of the DST-NRF Internship Programme in which unemployed Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) graduates and postgraduates (including those in Social Sciences and Humanities) are offered an opportunity to acquire practical work experience through mentoring and exposure to a research environment. This opportunity is also offered to those unemployed graduates and postgraduates who are interested in research management; research support and administration at public higher education institutions and research agencies through a partnership with the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA). Applications are invited from candidates who are interested in acquiring work experience in the areas of specialisation or disciplines in the stated provinces below:

PROVINCE

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION / DISCIPLINES (Choose 1 discipline per province up to a maximum of 3 in order of preference)
Eastern Cape Agricultural Economics; Agricultural Management; Agricultural Sciences; Animal Production; Animal Science; Anthropology; Biochemistry; Biology; Botany; Chemistry; Communication & Media Studies; Computer Science; Computer Software; Dental Sciences; Development Studies; Ecology; Ecology & Environmental Science; Education; Electrical Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Epidemiology; Fisheries; Food Sciences & Technology; Fresh Water Biology & Limnology; Health Promotion & Disease Prevention; Health Systems Research; Horticulture; Industrial Psychology & Sociology; Information Systems; Information & Computer Technologies; Knowledge Management; Languages & Literature; Management; Marine Biology; Material Sciences & Technologies; Mechanical Engineering; Microbiology; Molecular & Cell Biology; Nutrition; Physics; Physiology; Plant Production; Political Sciences; Political Sciences & Public Policy; Process Engineering; Public Health; Public Management & Administration; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Rural Development; Social Science; Social Work; Sociology; Soil & Water Sciences; Sports & Recreational Arts; Sports Science; Statistics; Statistics & Probability; Zoology.
Free State Agriculture; Agrometereology; Analytical Chemistry; Animal Production; Animal Science; Anthropology; Biochemistry; Civil Engineering; Development Studies; Ecology & Environmental Science; Education; Food Sciences & Technology; Genetics; Geology; Home Economics; Human Geography; Languages & Literature; Medical Virology; Microbiology; Molecular & Cell Biology; Musicology; Pharmacology; Physiology; Plant Biotechnology; Plant production; Sociology; Soil & Water Sciences; Town & Regional Planning.

Gauteng Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering; Agricultural Economics; Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Management; Agriculture; Agrometeorology; Analytical Chemistry; Anatomical Sciences; Animal Breeding & Genetics; Animal Production; Animal Science; Anthropology; Applied Mathematics; Archaeology; Architecture; Artificial Intelligence; Astronomy; Atmospheric Science & Meteorology; Biochemistry; Bio-engineering; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biophysics; Biostatistics; Biotechnology; Botany; Chemical Engineering; Chemical Sciences; Chemistry; Chemistry Sciences Engineering; Civil Engineering; Communication & Media Studies ; Communication Technologies; Computer Engineering; Computer Multimedia Systems; Computer Programming; Computer Science; Computer Software; Demography; Dental Sciences; Design Studies; Development Studies; Dramatic Arts; Ecology; Ecology & Environmental Science; Education; Electrical Engineering; Electronic Engineering; Endocrinology; Energy; Engineering; Engineering Management; Engineering Sciences; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Health; Environmental Studies; Epidemiology; Fine Arts; Food Sciences & Technology; Food Technology; Forensic Sciences; Forest Science; Genetics; Geographic Information Science (GISc); Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Geology; Geophysics; Haematology; Health; Health Economics; Health Informatics; Health Promotion; Health Promotion & Disease Prevention; Health Systems Research; Health Technology; Historical Studies; Horticulture; Human Geography; Hydrology; ICT; Immunology; Industrial Design; Industrial Engineering; Industrial Psychology & Sociology; Information & Computer Sciences; Information & Library Science; Information Management; Information Systems & Technology; Information Technology; International Relations; IT-Graphic Design; Knowledge Management; Management; Manufacturing & Process Technologies; Marine Biology; Marine Engineering & Navel Architecture; Material Sciences & Technologies; Mathematical Sciences; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering; Medical Microbiology; Medical Virology; Metallurgical Engineering; Microbiology; Mining Engineering; Molecular & Cell Biology; Natural Sciences; Neuroscience; Nuclear Engineering; Nutrition; Operations Research; Paediatrics & Child Health; Performing Arts; Pharmacology ; Physical Chemistry; Physical Geography; Physics; Physiology; Plant Biotechnology; Plant Production; Political Sciences; Political Sciences & Public Policy; Polymer Science; Psychology; Public Health; Public Management & Administration; Quality Management; R & D Psychology; Research Management with Mathematics; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Rural Development; Science Education; Science Journalism; Social Science; Social Work; Sociology; Soil & Water Sciences; Space & Earth Science; Sports medicine; Statistics; Statistics & Probability; Theology; Theoretical & Condensed Matter Physics; Town & Regional Planning; Toxicology; Veterinary Science; Virology; Zoology.

KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Economics; Agriculture; Agrometereology; Animal Production; Applied Mathematics; Archaeology; Astronomy; Atmospheric Science & Meteorology; Biochemistry; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biotechnology; Botany; Chemical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Communication & Media Studies; Computer Engineering; Computer Multimedia Systems; Computer Programming; Computer Science; Cultural Studies; Dental Sciences; Earth Science; Ecology; Ecology & Environmental Science; Education; Electrical Engineering; Electronic Engineering; Energy; Engineering Management; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Studies; Fisheries; Food Sciences & Technology; Genetics; Geochemistry; Geographic Information Science; Geology; Geophysics; Haematology; Health Economics; Health Promotion; Health Systems Research; Horticulture; Hydrology; Industrial Biotechnology; Industrial Engineering; Industrial Psychology & Sociology; Information & Computer Sciences; Information & Library Science; Information Systems & Technologies; Knowledge Management ; Languages & Literature; Management; Marine Biology; Material Sciences & Technologies; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering; Medical Microbiology; Medical Technologies; Medical Virology; Microbiology; Molecular & Cell Biology; Nutrition; Organic Chemistry; Pharmacology; Physics; Physiology; Plant Biotechnology; Plant Production; Psychology; Public Health; Public Management & Administration; Rehabilitation Medicine; Research Management with Mathematics; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Social Science; Social Work; Sociology; Soil & Water Sciences; Space & Earth Science; Sports Science; Statistics; Statistics & Probability; Sustainable Development; Veterinary Science; Virology; Zoology.
Limpopo Agricultural Economics; Agricultural Engineering; Agriculture; Agrometereology; Animal Production; Animal Science; Anthropology; Biochemistry; Biology; Biotechnology; Botany; Communication & Media Studies ; Computer Science; Development Studies; Ecology & Environmental Science; Education; Electronics Engineering; Food Sciences & Technology; Forest Science; Fresh Water Biology & Limnology; Game Ranching & Farming; Geology; Geophysics; Horticulture; Human Geography; Hydrology; Industrial Psychology & Sociology; Information & Computer Sciences; Information & Library Science; Information Systems & Technology; Information Technology; International Relations; Knowledge Management; Linguistics; Mathematics; Microbiology; Nutrition; Nutrition & Metabolism; Physical Chemistry; Physical Geography; Physics; Physiology; Plant Production; Psychology; Public Health; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Rural Development; Science Education; Social Science; Social Work; Sociology; Soil & Water Sciences; Sports & Recreational Arts; Sports Science; Statistics & Probability; Town & Regional Planning; Veterinary Nursing; Zoology.

Mpumalanga Agricultural Economics; ICT; Physical Geography; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Zoology.

Northern Cape Botany; Ecology & Environmental Science; Science Education.

North West Agriculture; Biochemistry; Biological Sciences; Biostatistics; Biotechnology; Chemistry; Civil Engineering; Construction Industry & Building; Demography; Diabetology; Epidemiology; Forest Science; Genetics; Health; Health Promotion & Disease Prevention; Health Systems Research; Information Systems & Technologies; Knowledge Management; Mathematical Sciences; Microbiology; Neuroscience; Nursing Science; Nutrition; Physics; Plant Production; Psychology; Public Health; Public Management & Administration; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Social Work; Soil & Water Sciences.
Western Cape Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering; Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Management; Agriculture; Analytical chemistry; Anthropology; Applied Mathematics; Archaeology; Astronomy; Atmospheric Science & Meteorology; Biochemistry; Bio-engineering; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biomedical Technology; Biostatistics; Biotechnology; Botany; Cardiovascular Diseases; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Communication & Media Studies ; Computer Programming; Computer Science; Computer Software; Construction Industry & Building; Development Studies; Diabetology; Ecology; Ecology & Environmental Science; Education; Electrical Engineering; Electronic Engineering; Energy Efficiency; Engineering; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Health; Environmental Studies; Epidemiology; Food Sciences & Technology; Forensic Sciences; Fresh Water Biology & Limnology; Genetics; Genito-urinary Diseases; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Geology; Geospace Physics; Haematology; Health Economics; Health Informatics; Health Promotion; Health Promotion & Disease Prevention; Health Systems Research; Health Technology; Horticulture; Human Geography; Hydrology; Immunology; Industrial Engineering; Industrial Psychology & Sociology; Information & Computer Sciences; Information & Library Science; Information Systems; Information Systems & Technology; Management; Manufacturing & Process Technologies; Marine Biology; Material Sciences & Technologies; Mechanical Engineering; Medical Biotechnology; Medical Virology; Mental Health & Substance Abuse; Microbiology; Molecular & Cell Biology; Morphology; Natural Sciences; Neuroscience; Nutrition; Nutrition & Metabolism; Oceanology; Organic Chemistry; Paleontology; Particle & Plasma Physics; Pharmacology ; Phenomenological Physics; Physical Geography; Physics; Physiology; Plant Biotechnology; Political Sciences; Psychology; Public Health; Public management and administration; Quality Management; R & D Psychology; Research Management, Research Support & Administration; Science Education; Science Journalism; Social Science; Social Work; Sociology; Soil & Water Sciences; Space & Earth Science; Sports & Recreational Arts; Sports Medicine; Sports Science; Statistics; Statistics & Probability; Sustainable Development; Toxicology; Virology; Zoology.

QUALIFICATIONS
Only university graduates with Bachelors, Honours, BTech, MTech or Master’s degrees will be considered, (people holding a National Diploma, DTech and PhD need not apply).

REMUNERATION
Interns will receive a monthly salary ranging between R6 070.00 and R8 050.00 per month - depending on the level of qualification.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?
Unemployed South African university graduates and post-graduates in the Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET), Research and Development, Social Sciences and Humanities fields are eligible. South African Permanent Residents who hold a South African Identity Document also qualify while non-South Africans are not eligible. Applicants should not be older than 35 years old at the time of submission of an application to qualify. Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

SHORT LISTING AND INTERVIEWS
Short listing and Interview of applicants will be conducted by the participating host institutions. Applicants will be shortlisted and called for interviews via their personal emails listed in the application. Applicants are advised to check their emails intermittently from December 2016 to 31 March 2017.

PLACEMENT IS AT VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS
Successful applicants will be placed at various participating institutions throughout the country and should thus apply for a position (disciplne) available in the province where they would like to be placed. The NRF does not pay relocation costs to an appointed candidate(s) who has to relocate to another province.

DURATION: The internship programme is offered for a period of 12 months. Successful applicants will be required to sign an internship contract for the duration of the internship period.

HOW TO APPLY?
All applications must be submitted electronically on the NRF Online Submission System at https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za. Register and log in, go to My Applications and Create Application. Select the Internship Programme Applicants 2017 to create the application. Complete all sections by following the instructions. Please also attach certified copies of qualifications, academic records and a copy of the South African Identity Document. Please note that you may only apply for a maximum of 3 disciplines in order of preference across all provinces.

ENQUIRIES
For technical online enquiries, please contact the Support Desk (Mondays to Fridays from 08h00 to 16h30) on: Tel: (012) 481-4202 or E-mail: [email protected] For programme related queries contact Sello Raseruthe: (012) 481-4388 or [email protected] and Monwabisi Mfihlo: (012) 481-4023 or [email protected]

CLOSING DATE: 07 November 2016, no late applications will be considered.

NB: Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. If no correspondence has been received 4 months after the closing date, applicants should consider their applications as unsuccessful. Successful applicants will start their internship on 1 April 2017.

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24/09/2016

Thanks Tsibiso to you cc you are very special. I was so overwhelmed with excitement.Let us meet sometime and share ideas on my area of work.Weldone keep up the good work. Happy Heritage Day .Dm Zou Kota Fredericks.

13/09/2016

To achieve this, a number of tertiary institutions, industry and government are collaborating to support the implementation of renewable energy (RE) projects in the country.

10/09/2016

On behalf of the REPS 2016 chairperson Prof Edson Meyer, the Project Team and UFH, we would like to thank all stakeholders, sponsors and our Government for supporting this Event. In deed the Deputy Minister of Human Settlements, the Deputy Director General of Science and Technology, Director General of Human Settlements and Vice Chancellor of UFH, Chairperson of SAIPPA Sisa Njikelana and former Minister of Housing Mama Mabandlagraced us with their presence and made a huge impact.

REPS 2016 through the Fort Hare Institute of Thechnology (FHIT) is now on it's way to piloting Postgraduate Student Housing at a bigger scale by building a Village which will house Postgraduate Students. These houses will of course run off the Grid.

Siyaqhuba si S***a Ngawe.

Mission accomplished ladies and gentlemen.

You want to be part of this exciting Project via Sponsorship? Call me, your institution, company or organisation might be next in line.

Tsibs

03/09/2016

REPS 2016 Thanks and Acknowledges the support of the Honourable Deputy Minister Zoliswa Kota- Fredericks.

The Honourable Deputy Minister of Human Settlements will be gracing us with her Presence at the Awards Evening on the 6th of Sep 2016.

29/08/2016

“How does a person go from academia to industry or commercialisation?”

Well, to find out, join us at the REPS 2016 from the 04th - 06th September 2016 at the University of Fort Hare Alice Campus.

Speaker: Mr Cebo Silinga is a Manager at the Technology Innovation Agency in the Energy division.

In this role, he manages the agency’s relationships with investees, focusing on meeting the clients’ challenges and objectives in project development, financing and risk management. He holds a Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering from Stellenbosch University.

Who is TIA?
The Technology Innovation Agency is a Department of Science and Technology implementing agency. Its main goal is to support the commercialisation of technology ideas for:
• Economic growth
• Improved quality of life

Technology Innovation Agency’s core business objective is to support the development and commercialisation of competitive technology-based services and products. The Agency primarily uses South Africa’s science and technology base to develop new industries, create sustainable jobs and help diversify the economy.

26/08/2016

Speaker: Mr Sisa Njikelana

Sisa Njikelana served as a member of parliament for 10 years until May 2014. He also served as Chairperson of Portfolio Committee on Energy. Furthermore 5 of the 10 years were spent in the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry.

SAIPPA represents the interests of a number of independent power producers in South Africa and is an active player in contributing to both civil and government debates and policy formation processes at this complex time for energy supply in South Africa. SAIPPA believes that Mr Njikelana will bring valuable experience and skills on organisational effectiveness, government relations, policy and legislation in the energy sector.

Members come from a diverse number of backgrounds including coal, renewables, energy consulting and engineering. The association is closely aligned with a number of key stakeholders including BUSA, EIUG and SAREC.

Recently SAIPPA made contributions towards the review of IRP 2010 and the current War Room on the electricity crisis. Furthermore, SAIPPA intends to intensify its role and contribution towards improving the supply side of electricity through its Working Groups machinery in areas such as cogeneration, wheeling, network access, embedded generation, coal base load power.

26/08/2016

Speaker: Thembakazi Mali – Ph. D. (Chem.), GDE (Environmental Engineering)

Dr Thembakazi Mali holds a Ph. D in Chemistry and a Graduate Diploma in Engineering in Environmental Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her career spans close to two decades in the energy and petrochemical fields.

Presently, she is the Senior Manager: Clean Energy Solutions (Renewable Energy and Alternative Energy) at the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI), which is a state-funded energy research, development and deployment organisation that focuses on public interest energy R&D that seeks to assist government in meeting the national goals of economic development and the improvement of quality of life of all citizens.

Her responsibilities within the thematic area are that of strategic planning to ensure that the strategic objectives of government that relate to energy security of supply are realised, in the nature of research work undertaken and technology diffusion that is appropriate for the country’s needs and development. She serves as the South African representative and executive committee member to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Technology Collaboration Programs on Ocean Energy Systems (OES), Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) and Bioenergy.

She is the Chairperson of the Thin Film Solar Technologies (PTY) Ltd board. She is the director of the Southern African Regional Secretariat for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) which is hosted by SANEDI. She also chairs the Energy Storage Initiative Steering Committee which is looking into the value of energy storage in the South African context

26/08/2016

Meet some of our Speekers at REPS 2016

Speaker: Dr Ndanduleni Nthambeleni; Executive Director: Grants Management & Systems Administration: National Research Foundation

Profile: Dr Ndanduleni B. Nthambeleni is the Executive Director at the National Research Foundation. He holds a DLitt et Phil degree from the University of Johannesburg. Previously, he worked as a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Vista University’s East Rand Campus. In 2012, he served as member of the Project team on Research Infrastructure of the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI).

25/08/2016

REPS 2016: Message from the Chair, Professor Edson Meyer

UNLEASHING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY

REPS 2016, the 7th Renewable and Sustainable Energy Postgraduate Symposium, offers you an excellent opportunity to absorb, captivate, update and discuss the most recent developments in all spheres of renewable energy. In fact, research finding that will be presented here, have in most instances not even been published elsewhere. This precipitous crispness forms the basis for unleashing sustainable solutions for a sustainable industry.

We are honored to host this symposium, particularly during the centenary celebrations of the University of Fort Hare. Since its inception in November 2010 at the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies at Stellenbosch University, this DST (Department of Science and Technology) funded symposium will see a record of more than 90 presentations being delivered in 2016. The symposium with foci on solar energy, wind energy, bio-energy, storage, energy policy and energy resources, provides an admirable platform for the sculpting of multi-disciplinary and inter-institutional research themes, which is course is fundamental to innovative scientific and technological solutions to the intricate grand challenge that is energy.

With its focus on affording postgraduate students the prospect of peer appraisal and constructive criticism, REPS 2016 will in addition amalgamate academia, industry and various private and public sectors. What is encouraging is that various stakeholders from within the public sector, with seemingly different mandates yet a common underlying quest to improve quality of life for all, will be sharing the stage to present, debate and interrogate the proposed solutions obtained through postgraduate research activities. Where industry is important

Postgraduate students, our future leading scientific, technical and political philosophers, provided an impressive programme for REPS 2016 and I look forward to interesting topics and debates and an opportunity to intensely learn, deliberate and form lasting alliances.

I am indeed pleased to welcome you to Alice, the home of FORT HARE, which one hundred years ago was established as the first South African Native College near the ruins of John Hare’s military post. And like one hundred years ago, I am sure the first Renewable and Sustainable Energy Postgraduate Symposium at FORT HARE will energize and inspire you for years to come.

Edson L. Meyer
Chairperson
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Postgraduate Symposium 2016

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