16 May 2018
Open seminars - UNU-GEST fellows present their final assignments
23 fellows are graduating from the UNU-GEST programme in spring semester 2018. The graduates will present their final assignments at four thematic, open seminars at the University of Iceland.
3 May 2018
Final Lecture in spring lecture series on anti-gender movements as challenges to human rights
Andrea Pető, Professor at Central European University, Budapest, is the 8th and last lecturer in the RIKK & UNU-GEST 2018 spring term lecture series.
2 May 2018
UNU-GEST fellows continue teaching Icelandic youth about gender inequality in their home countries
Three fellows from the UNU-GEST Diploma Programme visited the upper seconday school Fjölbrautaskólinn við Ármúla on April 27. The students, aged 16 -19, listened carefully to their talk about gender issues in their home countries
1 May 2018
UNU-GEST fellows on Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
For the first time UNU-GEST fellows were presented on the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service – Ríkisútvarpið, or RÚV for short, in a popular TV programme called Landinn
28 April 2018
UNU-GEST Fellows Witness Climate Change: Field Trip to the Southeast of Iceland
Last week, the UNU-GEST fellows, together with Dr. Irma Erlingsdóttir, the director of UNU-GEST, travelled to the southeast of Iceland as part of the module "Gender and Environment".
22 April 2018
UNU-GEST and Makerere University offer scholarships for spring term 2019
UNU-GEST collaboration with Makerere University in Uganda continues. The partners are pleased to offer full scholarships to two master´s students of Makerere University to attend the UNU-GEST diploma programme 2019 in international gender studies in Reykjavík, Iceland