French South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI)

The French South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI) is a graduate school jointly developed by France and South Africa to advance knowledge and technology transfer in engineering and technology fields. Established in 1994 following a state visit by President Nelson Mandela, it operates as a national asset with a primary focus on Mathematics, fundamental Sciences, and Engineering Studies. F’SATI currently maintains two main nodes within South Africa: one at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria and another at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town. F'SATI is therefore a training institute with research centres, geared towards offering programmes in high-added-value scientific and technological fields, such as: signal processing and telecommunications; automation and control; power and energy; information and communication techniques; space science, engineering, technology; satellite communication systems and applications. Hitherto, F’SATI at CPUT narrowly focussed on the design, development, and deployment of Nanosatellites for LOE (Low earth orbit) with relevance to marine domain awareness.