Additionally, the areas of cooperation may also include the sharing of resources, enhancing professional development opportunities for CCT officials and where practicable, provide support to postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners for possible placement into City programmes and projects, including work experience and exposure.
In a presentation done as part of SU`s Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies Strategic Review and Planning session (held on the 17th of May 2023), the CCT Director for the Policy and Strategy Department, Hugh Cole, explained the City`s Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and Priorities.
He stated that the City`s Vision is to be a City of Hope for all - a prosperous, inclusive and healthy city where people can see their hopes of a better future for themselves, their children and community become a reality. “As the city government, we are focused on creating the conditions for the meaningfully faster economic growth we need to see more Capetonians lift themselves out of poverty. Everything we do over the next five years will be geared towards this outcome. We must use the public resources entrusted to us to co-create a city that is more caring, more inclusive, more prosperous, more united, more respectful, more safe and more free. “ This vision is encapsulated in the City's new IDP.
The IDP has three top tier priorities, namely Safety, Economic Growth, Basic Services, and another three secondary priorities, namely Housing, Public Space, Environment and Amenities, and Transport.
SU has expertise, through our five strategic research areas, in all of these priority areas, and looks forward to engaging further with the CCT to work together towards the betterment of society through initiatives that utilise our relevant research, with impact.
Initiatives and activities within the Framework Agreement is facilitated on SU`s side by the Division for Research Development (DRD). We would like to encourage researchers who work in the areas highlighted as CCT priorities, and who would like to engage with the CCT on possible collaborative initiatives, to contact Ms Aasima Gaffoor (aasima@sun.ac.za) for further information or enquiries.
