Keep the Dream Career Guide Book
Business luncheon
Students dedicate their thesis to help the community
IS Honours students engage in community service
Student volunteers participate in the Rapid Research component
Welcome to the Knowledge Co-Op website
For many years, staff and students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have worked in partnership with communities to address development challenges.
The UCT Knowledge Co-op builds on this tradition of social responsiveness – and aims to make it easier for community partners to access UCT’s skills, resources and professional expertise. It works by matching community groups with academic partners in a collaboration that meets the needs for research or practical support identified by the community group. The partners jointly reformulate the questions into manageable student projects. In the case of research projects, these are mostly taken up by students as projects that are conducted under the supervision of a senior academic for their dissertations. Projects address a wide range of need: from ICT support to early childhood development, prisoner rehabilitation, and sustainable community gardens.
Current projects include:
- A student investigating hate crimes against young members of the LGBTI community;
- Students setting up Website and blogs for community groups;
- A student and academic developing technology to support graduates of a job readiness programme; and
- A student helping to evaluate beekeeping training as a means to generate income.
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Wamkelekile kwikhasi leKnowledge Co-op
Kuyiminyaka inkcuba buchopo nabafundi beYunivesithi yaseKapa (UCT) besebenzisana nabahlali ngemingeni echaphazela uphuhliso.
i-Knowledge Co-op yakhela phezu kwalontsebenziswano – kwaye injongo ikukwenza kubelula kubahlali ukufikelela kwizakhono, kuvimba nakubungcaphephe baleYunivesithi. i-Knowledge Co-op ithi incede ekuqaleni indibaniselwano yeeProjekthi ezithi zibeluncedo kubahlali nakwiYunivesithi. Amaqela asekuhlaleni aye angqanyaniswe nenkcuba buchopho kwanabafundi abafanele ezo Projekthi eUCT, kwaye baxhase bonke abathath’ inxaxheba - ukususela ekusekweni kweProjekthi de kubekho isiphumo.
Okwangoku nazi iiProjekthi eziquka abafundi:
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khetha iindlela zokunceda, enokuthi idibanise abafundi abasuka kwiintlanga namasiko ahlukileyo esikolweni;
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yakha iiWebsite zamaqela asekuhlaleni okanye uqeqeshe abasebenzi kwizakhono zobugcisa nobuchwephetsha;
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velisa umzekelo woshishino kwabo bafuna uqeqesho kwezozakhono;
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fumanisa ukuba yintoni onokuyenza efunwa ngabatsha enokuthi ibeluncedo ekufumaneni ingqesho.
Brochures
UCT Knowledge Co-Op. Code of Good Practice for Engaged Scholarship, Oct 2012
UCT Knowledge Co-Op. Student Guide. 2014
In the News
Research that affirms and disrupts
UCT Knowledge Co-Op inspires active citizenry
The case against privatising knowledge
Research put to work in local communities