8 September 2022
2022 March 8 Fund project grant awarded
Claudia Pamela Chavarria Machado receives grant to fight intimate partner violence
6 September 2022
GRÓ GEST PhD fellow arrives to Iceland
GRÓ GEST had the pleasure of welcoming PhD fellow, Stella Tereka, to Iceland last Friday. Stella, GEST alumna of 2016, was among the first fellows to receive a full scholarship from GRÓ GEST for her PhD Studies at the University of Iceland. Stella’s PhD position is a collaboration between the GRÓ GEST programme at the University of Iceland and Makerere University, Uganda, where the PhD committee includes experts from both institutions.
23 August 2022
New FREE online course
You can now enroll in 'Gender, Violence and Post-Conflict States' on edX
13 July 2022
Summer Holidays Closure
The GRÓ GEST office will close for summer holidays from 15th July, reopening on 2nd August 2022.
1 July 2022
GRÓ GEST participated in a seminar in Makerere University
On 10 June representatives from GRÓ GEST participated in a seminar at Makerere University facilitated by the Dean of the School of Gender and Women Studies at Makerere. The seminar was organized in two sessions, one on gender and climate change and the other on the Icelandic women’s movement and gender equality in Iceland, in a global perspective.
24 June 2022
Alumni event in Kampala
On Tuesday 7 June 2022, GEST alumni from Uganda gathered at the Icelandic Embassy in Kampala for an alumni network event.