Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR; German: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ) SOE , is South Africa's central and legally anchored scientific research and development institution that was set up by the government.

The CSIR was established in 1945 by a parliamentary decision. The legal basis was later replaced by the Scientific Research Council Act ( Act 46/1988 ), as amended by Act 27 of 2014 . Its headquarters are in Pretoria . CSIR is today the largest research and development institution in Africa , which alone represents around 10% of the research budget spent in Africa. CSIR employs approximately 3,000 scientists and engineers.

The research areas are:

• Construction industry
• Defense and security technology
• Food , biotechnology , chemistry
• Materials research , production research ( process engineering )
• Raw materials and environmental research

A well-known development of the CSIR is the ZEBRA battery .

Special research areas

• Meraka Institute (in the South African Center for Digital Language Resources ), subordinated to the national Department of Science and Innovation .
• National Laser Center (NLC)

Web links

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• Official website . (English)
• CSIR Research Space - enables access to research results from CSIR . on www.researchspace.csir.co.za (English)
• CSIR Meraka Institute: CSIR Meraka Institute (HLT Research Group) . at www.sadilar.org (English)
• CSIR: Transport systems and operations . on www.csir.co.za (English)
• CSIR: About Optronic Sensor Systems (OSS) . on www.csir.co.za (English)
• CSIR: Defense and security . on www.csir.co.za (English)
• Jakkie Cilliers: Defense Research and Development in South Africa - The Role of the CSIR . In: African Security Review. Vol. 5 No. 5, 1996 ( Archive.org . The role of CSIR in arms research and development in South Africa)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} CSIR: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Manual in terms of Section 14 of Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000. Mandate of the CSIR . at www.csir.co.za (English, PDF document p. 3)
2. ↑ SADILAR / CSIR: About SADiLaR . at www.sadilar.org (English)
3. ^ Photonics Division of the South African Institute of Physics: About SADiLaR . on www.lasers.co.za (English)