National Research Foundation – Promoting and Supporting Research through Funding, Human Resource Development and the Provision of the Necessary Research Facilities.

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Celebrating the youth who are Advancing Knowledge, Transforming Lives, and Inspiring a Nation.

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Advancing Knowledge, Transforming a Continent

The NRF Celebrates

Research funded by the NRF attempted to address this gap by quantifying the
greenhouse gas emissions of the South African plastics industry and its value chain.

Impact of SA’s Plastic Industry on
Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
Life-Cycle Approach

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New avenues have been opened up to advance the use of lipid nanoparticle
formulations

Promising Nano-based Treatment
Approach for Parkinson's Disease

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NRF Strategy, Planning & Partnerships

To enable research excellence and impact, the NRF engages in and manages mutually beneficial strategic partnerships with local, and international bodies for the benefit of all South Africans and global science.

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NRF Science Engagement

To fully realise the social, economic, and environmental benefits of the significant investment in science, research, and innovation, we as a country must communicate and engage the wider community more fully in science and in an understanding of the knowledge economy to which we aspire.

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