10 November 2022 - Matchmaking Event
It can be difficult to connect with potential partners. To try and connect more Swedish and South African partners SASUF held a matchmaking event, focused especially on the Virtual Exchange Grant Application.
19-23 September 2022 - SASUF Goes Digital
More than 1000 participants registered for this digital SASUF forum. Moreover, 289 of them were assigned speakers to sessions.
There were 107 sessions. The researchers were hosting lectures, participating in workshops, and getting new contacts for future collaborations at the mingles.
Most of the sessions had a specific topic in their field out of 6 fields that we have covered: Climate Change, Education, Social Transformation, Health, Sustainable Urbanization and Digital Technologies.
20 May 2022 - Student Essay Contest on South Africa-Sweden relations
The Essay Contest was jointly hosted by the Faculty of Humanities (via the Department of Politics and International Relations) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria and the South Africa-Sweden University Forum (SASUF). 3rd and 4th year students from SASUF partner universities were invited to submit an essay to one of five categories.
9 October 2021 - SASUF Student Network Digital Event
In collaboration over the country borders, the University of Zululand SASUF Student Network, one of the under groups of the umbrella organization SASUF Student Network, hosted an event uniting academia, students, researchers and policymakers in a joint discussion.
For more information about the background to the event, make sure to check out the event on Facebook, which you can find via the button below.
29 September 2021 - Pamoja: A Joint Event by Artscape Theatre and Embassy of Sweden
The hybrid launch was held on the 29th of September (17:00 – 19:30) and comprised of an exhibition unveiling, panel discussion, a walk-through of the Pamoja experience and a jazz concert; all of which was also showcased virtually.
The online platform was developed by The Embassy of Sweden in partnership with the Swedish Institute and Liliesleaf Foundation to strengthen engagement, activism and agency among young people as they take on the challenges of today. Some challenges faced and addressed include inequality, racism and prejudice, climate change and solidarity during the pandemic. It is based on interviews with stalwarts, focus groups on international solidarity and extensive research through literature and it aims to use the history of Sweden’s role in supporting development and liberation movements struggling against colonialism and apartheid in Africa as its inspiration.
Pamoja was accompanied by an exhibition which included portraits of an intersectional group of activists from Sweden, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola.
“We are very happy to be collaborating with Artscape in the launch of this project which is the culmination of months of research and contributions now ready to be shared with the world. It is in solidarity that we can find solutions to the challenges of today and through the lessons of the past that the youth can write new histories for a better world,” says Sweden’s Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Håkan Juholt.
The physical exhibition was accessible to patrons at Artscape Resource Centre after the launch until 15th December 2021.
