19 October 2016
UNU-FTP Fellows visit Icelandic North
Last week, the UNU-FTP took its annual trip to the Northern part of Iceland for a series of lectures at the University of Akureyri visits to companies and organisations working in fisheries and fisheries related activities.
10 October 2016
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visits UNU Iceland Programmes
On Saturday, October 8, 2016, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, attended a seminar given by the UNU programs in Iceland on their work. The UNU programmes described how they address the challenges presented in the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
23 September 2016
Welcome UNU-FTP fellows 2016-17
This week, the UNU-FTP welcomed the 19th cohort of fellows for annual six month training in Iceland.
29 August 2016
Fellow M. M. Mahbub Alam to defend PhD thesis at University of Iceland
On Thursday the 8th of September M. M. Mahbub Alam will defend his Ph.D. thesis in Biology. The thesis is titled: Origin and population structure of major prawn and shrimp species in Bangladesh.
20 July 2016
Short course on Value Chain Approach in the Caribbean
A five day course on Value Chain Approach in Caribbean Fisheries is being delivered in Paramaribo in Suriname by the UNU-FTP and the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) July 18-22 as part of collaboration between the two parties on developing fisheries among states in the Caribbean Community.
18 July 2016
Fellows attend IIFET 2016 conference in Aberdeen, Scotland
The UNU-FTP awarded grants to nine former fellows to attend the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) conference July 11-15, 2016 held in Aberdeen, Scotland. This year, the conference theme was "Challenging new frontiers in the global seafood sector: A northern enlightenment."