Master's Programme in Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch University

11/09/2020

Congratulations, Xola!
Xola Njengele, one of our PGDip students, has been elected as Chairperson of Stellenbosch University's SRC for 2021!

11/09/2020

Eve Annecke, our degree programme co-creator, and founding director of the Sustainability Institute, is walking into different ways of being … check out A Journey Home:

26/08/2020

The Master’s Programme in Sustainable Development, offered by Stellenbosch University in collaboration with the Sustainability Institute, is made up of two formal degrees, the first at an honours level and the second at a master’s level.
Check out our prospectus at
http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/economy/spl/SPL%20Library/Master%27s%20Programme%20in%20Sustainable%20Development_Prospectus%20%28interactive%20version%29...pdf

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 31 August

03/08/2020

To Sam Chevallier and his Rewild team: - Thank you for making it possible for 100+ friends and family to attend Shima's memorial via Zoom last week, and now for many more to share in the event via YouTube. https://youtu.be/pgmsYJnVPUE

Eduardo Shimahara (fondly known as Shima), was a close friend and mentor to ReWild, and many others. This memorial was held in the beautiful food garden of t...

29/07/2020

We mourn the loss of an alumnus, colleague and friend who has touched and inspired countless lives across the globe.

23/06/2020

Concert for the Biocene: As lockdown saw society recede into the walls of their homes, nature silently crept into many of the places—in the cities and in the margins—which humans vacated. The concert organisers of Barcelona's Liceu Opera House therefore decide that, as Spain begins to reopen and its people reclaim the spaces they lost, it should be plants that receive the honour of the first performance of the reopened Opera House.

Watch and listen to this unique performance (to a packed audience of 2292 potted plants!) here: https://www.liceubarcelona.cat/es/concierto_bioceno

23/04/2020

These lovely people did only two block modules in the awesome learning environment provided by the Sustainability Institute before South Africa's national Covid-19 lockdown. Missing you guys!!! Online learning will be different but our fantastic lecturers will be supporting you all the way. Keep safe and hang in there and.... wash your hands! Keeping fingers crossed that we will see one another sooner rather than later.💟

17/12/2019

37 of our students graduated from the Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Sustainable Development last week.

12/12/2019

We would like to congratulate the 37 PGDip and 2 MPhil students that are graduating today from the Master's Programme in Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch University

We are looking forward to welcoming you back as alumni, and wish you all the best for your journey ahead. 🎉

04/12/2019

We are in the process of building an internship database for our third year students in our undergraduate Diploma in Sustainable Development programme.
If the work your company does is aligned with at least one Sustainable Development Goal, and you have the capacity to host one or more interns, please complete our survey!

Please provide us with information about the internships your company could provide.