Science Slam in Kapstadt

The South African German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice (www.drd-sa.org) at the University of the Western Cape, one of only five DAAD African Excellence Centres in Africa, and the Anton Lubowski Educational Trust (www.alleducationaltrust.org) cordially invite you to participate in an exciting and mind-boggling Science Slam, which is going be held on Saturday, 26 November 2011 from 13:00 to 15:00 at The Business Place, Philippi.

The Science Slam forms part of the first (but annual) siVUKA event, an educational awareness, information and motivation day, comprising the Science Slam, motivational key note speeches, the screening of the Dinokeng Scenarios, an Educational Jamboree as well as a Freshly Ground benefit concert.

One of the most important pillars of the siVUKA event, the Science Slam is a form of scientific communication and competition, which originated in Germany and is closely linked to the concept of Poetry Slams. Six researchers, each coming from various fields and disciplines from different universities of the Mothercity (Cape Town), present their own research in a very short, concise, highly accessible, and, most of all, entertaining way to the audience (high school scholars and undergraduate students from the Western Cape Township communities).

Above all, those six researchers also compete with each other over the title of “The Most Inspiring Researcher of the Mother City 2011”. The overall theme of this year´s Science Slam is ‘Innovation for Development’.

Objectives of the Science Slam 2011

• To inform students about the stages and characteristics of scientic/academic research processes in general and about the state-of-the art and development-related research currently conducted at HE institutions in the Western Cape

• To inspire and motivate students to engage in scientific/academic research by highlightening the:

• Intrinsic value of conducting research in general: the researcher´s excitement/struggle with research in general, what it means/feels like (personally) to engage in contributing to solutions to real world developmental problems with the help of scientific/academic means/approaches

• Extrinsic value of conducting development-related research: research that furthers/contributes to the development (poverty reduction, economic growth, human capital and knowledge formation, technology etc) of South Africa/the Western Cape Province

For further information and to apply for participation, please contact Iris at:

sivuka2011@gmail.com


Related links:

South African German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice
www.drd-sa.org

Anton Lubowski Educational Trust
www.alleducationaltrust.org

University of the Western Cape
www.uwc.ac.za

DAAD Centres of African Excellence:
www.daad.de/fachzentren-afrika/en/index.html

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