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Exchange programmes
The Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wild Flowers (CREW) escorted the final-year Plant Ecology and Conservation students (second semester) on a field trip to a nearby nature reserve to expose students to hands-on field survey techniques used in vegetation and plant research. During these sessions, CREW earmarks potential candidates for their internship programmes and informs students of work opportunities in the conservation of rare and endangered plant species
UKZN final-year students in Speech Therapy work cooperatively with UNIZULU students (five fourth-year and 11 Honours students) through the Inter-professionalism Education Joint Project over
two semesters – focusing on ‘Decolonising Deliciousness: Inter- Professional Health & Consumer Science Education’
Two staff members and two students visited the Nelson Mandela University through the Inter-professionalism Education Joint Project to exchange knowledge on traditional leafy vegetables, and how UNIZULU is facilitating the community engagement-based interactions
An undergraduate final-year student from Umea University in Sweden under SASUF spent three months at UNIZULU working on informal saving schemes under the theme: Who runs the World?
A post-graduate student from Ghana University is spending six months interacting with locals and developing a non-alcoholic maize-based fermented drink (promotion of indigenous beverages) influenced by the Ghanaian community
The Department of Consumer Services established SASUF, an informal student forum composed of eight students from various faculties in the University. The forum’s aims are listed below:
To bring together researchers from Sweden and South Africa to seminars, exchange programmes and projects
To create innovative ways to approach internationalisation
To utilise the power of digital tools in international collaboration
To connect researchers with funding agencies, industry, ministries and surrounding society that are working towards SDGs
Community-based seminars/ colloquiums
As part of an outreach programme whereby school learners are made aware of potential academic programmes at university level and potential careers in nature conservation, a series of lectures are presented by the Department of Botany to Grade 12 learners of Felixton College during the second semester
Guided practical plant identification courses are undertaken in communities in numerous nature reserves and conservation areas within Zululand to promote the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources
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