Science for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa When: 8 February 2018, 6pm-8pm Where: Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bunda Campus, Lilongwe, Malawi Africa is urbanising at a historically rapid rate, creating some of the region’s greatest development challenges, but also offering tremendous opportunities for advancing sustainable development in Read more…
CAAST-Net Plus Gift Kadzamira –National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST), Malawi As a Horizon 2020 National Contact Point for Malawi, I was privileged to attend a Horizon 2020 information session and National Contact Point (NCP) training workshop organised by CAAST-Net Plus and the European Commission (EC). The workshop aimed to Read more…
LIVINGSTONE SYMPOSIUM Effective research and innovation partnerships are an increasingly strategic component in the internalization of the agenda of nations and regions, according to the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and its Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy (STISA 24) which also encourages strategic partnerships and collaborations within the region and beyond. Read more…
RUFORUM – NCST OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) in collaboration with the National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST), run the 2017 RUFORUM –NCST Outstanding Young Scientist Award competition. The competition was locally managed by the National Commission for Science and Read more…
CAPACITY BUILDING ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION FOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES 2017 Malawi through the National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST) participated int the 2017 Seminar on”Capacity Building on Information and Communication for African Countries” in Beijing China. The Seminar was held at Academy for International Business Offices from the 6th Read more…
RUFORUM OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST (OYS) AWARD The National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST) in collaboration with RUFORUM is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for the national Outstanding Young Scientist (OYS) award. RUFORUM OYS award is designed to recognize and celebrate extraordinary Read more…
The Malawi Public Policy Research and Analysis Project (MPPRAP), a project within the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, presented a cheque of Twenty Two Million Malawi Kwacha (K22,018,500.00) to the National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST) towards the cost of the 2017 National Research Dissemination Conference (NRDC). The cheque presentation was performed Read more…
MEDIA EDITORS SENSITIZED ON BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOSAFETY The National Commission for Science and Technology in collaboration with the Program for Biosafety Systems (PBS) recently conducted a sensitization workshop for editors of media houses. The workshop which took place at Mt Soche Hotel on 17th and 18th August was on the Read more…
e tra Introduction AquaTrans (Transformation of Aquaculture, Fish Processing and Value Addition In The SADC Region) is the first regional training course being offered by Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) with support from New Partnership for Africa Development – Southern Africa Network for Biosciences (NEPAD-SANBio) BioFISA II Read more…
Maher El-Adawy, Ambassador of Egypt to Malawi met today Friday 28 July 2017 with Mr. Anthony Muyepa, director general of NCST (National Commission for Science and Technology) as the director was introducing four Malawian students (Miss. Chifundo Kansungwi from Chiradzulu, Miss. Bless Nthambo from Chitipa, Mr. Benjamin Malema from Read more…