SAP accelerates digital skills development with expanded virtual Young Professional Program 14th Dec 2020 | Source: African Media Agency
The SAP Young Professional Program, which forms part of the broader Skills for Africa initiative, has extended its footprint with a revised, fully virtual model that has enabled young candidates in several African countries to participate in the program, despite the pandemic. Since its launch in 2012, the program has trained and graduated more than 1300 youths across Africa, with 99% having been placed in meaningful jobs post graduation.
Cathy Smith, Managing Director at SAP Africa, says the events of 2020 have made it more important than ever for organisations to have access to a ready supply of digital skills. Every organisation needs digital skills in order to meet modern customer demands and become more resilient as they adapt to the extraordinary events of 2020. Despite the disruption brought by the pandemic, the new virtual te
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The most promising vaccine against the coronavirus to date is also an example of the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research and its funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The so-called mRNA vaccine platform, which the Mainz-based company BioNTech uses in its Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly with the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, can be traced back to preliminary work carried out from 2006 to 2008 in a project within a DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) on cancer research at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. This in turn was also tied to previous DFG-funded research.
The project was led by the later founder and current CEO of BioNTech, Professor Dr. U?ur ?ahin, whose name and person are closely associated with the development of the BNT162b2 vaccine, which will be deployed immediately following its approval in the United Kingdom and its anticipated approval in the USA and the EU. In addition to