MDP 2020 has kicked off! We’re privileged to have students from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Somalia and Cameroon in this year’s group. A big thanks to UNEP’s Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga, one of our big supporters, for sharing your professional and personal journey today.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will host the Head of Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, on an Official Visit on Thursday, 06 February 2020, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. bit.ly/2uY0pMJ

Welcome, Chancellor Angela Merkel, to South Africa! Much to do on Thursday: Talks with Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦, strengthen bilateral ties, foster investment, international issues, engagement with business, students, civil society Thanks DIRCO South Africa @presidencyZA for great partnership

Yesterday evening we celebrated the successes of our MDP class of 2019, with University of Pretoria Vice-Chancellor and Principal Prof Tawana Kupe delivering the official congratulatory remarks. Well done all, and well to our top student, Wendy van Eyck!

#Südafrika und #Angola - die Stationen der Afrika-Reise von Kanzlerin #Merkel, die gleich beginnt. Was auf dem Programm steht:

Today we welcome Dr Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, to our Future Africa Campus. Dr Merkel will answer questions from UP students at 5pm, and you can watch a live-stream of the conversation here: bit.ly/3aKNuxT

What can South African universities do to accelerate #SDG implementation? Thank you University of Pretoria for publishing this write-up of our recent workshop on this topic! up.ac.za/the-albert-lut…

We need your help to improve our database! After building one of the largest #SDG research databases in the world, we now want to make the platform as usable as possible. Please take a few minutes to complete our short questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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Dr Sibongiseni Thotsejane highlights how Africa has the human capital to address poverty and unemployment through the fourth industrial revolution #ARFSD2020 #ARSTIF #SDGs

The IDFC International Development Finance Club Forum organized by DBSA Bank was a great opportunity to observe the initiatives by the IDFC towards SDG financing. Selma Karuaihe from UP South African SDG Hub and AgEcon_UP University of Pretoria was the keynote speaker sharing her experience from the SA SDG reporting process.

Last week, Selma Karuaihe from our team was the keynote speaker DBSA Bank's International Development Finance Club meeting. Thanks for inviting us!

#ARFSD2020 is officially opened by President of Zimbabwe and we are looking forward to hearing how the SDGs and Agenda 2063 implementation can be strengthened #SDGs #Agenda2030 #Agenda2063

Final day of #ARFSD2020 with outcomes to follow later today.

Data challenges negatively impact attainment of the #SDGs, learning how KNCHR and Kenya's National Statistical Office are working together to overcome this #ARFSD2020 #sideevent #SDGs #leavingnoonebehind

We have a new website address! Thanks to the lockdown we could do some housekeeping. Don't forget to update your records and visit us at our new address: sasdghub.up.ac.za

Applications for one Africa's leading multi-disciplinary Master's degrees on the SDGs are open! Looking for more info? Have a look here: up.ac.za/media/shared/7… Remember to apply before 31 August 2020!

Applications for Africa’s first multidisciplinary degree on the UN Sustainable Development Goals are now open. Apply for admission to UP's Master's in Development Practice now! The closing date is 31 August 2020. Please click here for more details: ow.ly/G8Y450zZGKq

What a great day! Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 included improving our text classification tool as a data science Master's capstone project. Today his students are exhibiting their proposals, and we're blown away. Interested? Check out their projects here: up-mitc-ds.github.io/808exhibition2… University of Pretoria

A labour of love from Students, Project Partners and Lecturers. Today we launch our Master in IT [MIT808]: Big Data Science Capstone Project Exhibition for 2020 Project Partners South African SDG Hub FABI Vinet Coetzee SONALI DAS Link: up-mitc-ds.github.io/808exhibition2… University of Pretoria #DataScience