About Us
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ABOUT SAN-NEST
SAN-NEST is governed by a mission statement and statues with stakeholders from academic institutions, nuclear industries, national laboratories, research councils, government institutions and private nuclear organisations. These include the setting-up of a Steering Committee, appointment of office bearers which include the Chairperson, Deputy Chair and a Secretary. The Steering Committee and Stakeholders with IAEA related projects will report to the Network, which in turn will report its operations and activities annually to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy through the National Liaison Office, Department of Science and Innovation and the IAEA through AFRANEST. These institutional arrangements will guarantee the sustainability of the Network.
PURPOSE
1. Establish joint university
degrees with suitable nuclear content in line with national and industry needs.
Realised through sharing of research facilities and presenting various modules at
different institutions.
2. Facilitate continuous
professional development (CPD) accredited courses delivered in specific topic
areas drawing on expertise from member universities and advertised/administered
centrally by SAN-NEST.
3. Develop training programmes
(certificate programmes) for specialised nuclear organisations delivered.
4. Generate and host technical
material and host outreach events such as nuclear knowledge sharing events and
career fairs.
5.
Provide a mechanism to
advice on research priorities in the form of research focus/advice groups at
member institutions.
6. To promote the scientific interests of members and communication between stakeholders and government institutions including with the goal of suitably qualified and experienced person (SQEP) trained for the advancement of nuclear science and technology in South Africa and Africa as a whole.
What Make Us Spcecial?
SAN-NEST Management?
University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) Iyabo.Usman@wits.ac.za
North-West University (NWU) tebogo.kupi@nwu.ac.za