ASSAf News

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s Conference 2020 (21 – 24 September) brought together an official list of 496 delegates to discuss the challenges and dilemmas of open access publishing under a broad theme of “Open Access at a Time of Global Challenge”. This was the first exclusively online and interactive conference for OASPA organisers. SciELO journal editors were invited to attend the conference free this year. Two of the attendees wrote about their highlights from the...

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) cordially invites you to a virtual panel discussion on COVID-19 and Human Rights: Perspectives on Socio-economic Rights and Violence.

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), the Senegal Academy of Science and Technology (ANSTS), and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) kindly invite you to the International Virtual Panel Discussion entitled  “COVID-19 and Multimorbidity: How to Deal with Multiple Infectious Diseases in Parallel?”. The discussion will explore what happens when COVID-19 meets other infectious diseases....

Prof Jonathan Jansen, President, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), invites you to the 3rd Annual ASSAf Science-Business Leadership Forum titled “South Africa’s Economic Recovery Post COVID-19”

Royal Society of South Africa and the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) invite you to a public lecture by Dr Bruno Werz, CEO of the African Institute for Marine & Underwater Research, Exploration & Education on ‘Finding Haarlem?’

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in collaboration with the Future Professors Programme (FPP),  cordially invite you to a webinar on Covid-19 research, the Disciplines and their Methodologies.

ASSAf Presidential Roundtable Discussion on the human question in artificial intelligence. Guest Speaker: Prof Margaret Levi, Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University - “Frankenstein or Gods? The Impact of the New Technologies on What It Means To Be Human”

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is an independent statutory body of eminent South African scientists. ASSAf’s primary objective is to generate evidence-based solutions to the problems and challenges facing South African society.  ASSAf seeks to appoint an Editor-in-Chief for the South African Journal of Science.