Congratulations to the 2013/14 UNU-FTP Fellows!
On the 24th of March, 22 UNU-FTP fellows graduated from the six-month training in Iceland. After six intense months of rigorous, hard work in the cool dark north, all the fellows completed the training and presented their final projects with success.
In attendance at the graduation, the UNU-FTP was pleased to have addresses from Johann Sigurjonsson, Director of the Marine Research Institute and Chairman of the Board of the UNU-FTP and Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Secretary of the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Joseph Luomba, a fellow from Tanzania who specialized in Fisheries Policy and Planning was chosen to give a speech on behalf of the fellows. In addition, many project supervisors, board members of the UNU-FTP, friends of the programme and former fellows living in Iceland were in attendance.
This cohort consisted of fellows from fourteen countries (Cameroon, Gambia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Vietnam, China, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Namibia, Cuba and Sri Lanka). This year the fellows participated in four specialist lines; Sustainable Aquaculture, Fisheries Policy and Planning, Fishing Technology and Quality Management of Fish Handling and Processing.
As of this year, a total 286 fellows graduated from 48 countries from the programme since it started 1998. As with all our former fellows, we at the UNU-FTP look forward to watching the fellows in this group go home and apply what they have learned while in Iceland.