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THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAIR ARE TO:

• Facilitate railway-specific skills • Expand the scientific research • Attract and retain excellent
development to provide capacity and innovation capacity of South researchers and scientists;
for the railway industry; Africans in the fields of railway
industry and manufacturing;

• Improve South Africa’s interna- • Increase the production of • Create research career path-
tional research and innovation masters and doctoral graduates; ways for young researchers with
competitiveness while respond- a strong research, innovation
ing to the social and economic and human capital development
challenges of the country; output plan.

• The value of the research chair
is R25 million over five years

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