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UNU-GEST is seeking applicants for an internship period during the spring semester of 2017. The goal of the internship placement is to offer students in related fields of study an opportunity to get acquainted with applied approaches to work towards gender equality.

UNU-GEST collaboration with Makerere University in Uganda continues and the partners are pleased to offer full scholarships to two master´s students of Makerere University School of Women and Gender studies to attend the UNU-GEST diploma programme 2017. The scholarships are partially funded by the Erasmus + grant scheme.

UNU-GEST has been granted funding from the Icelandic Gender Equality Fund for ‘Go for No - Tackling gender-based discrimination within the geothermal industry’ international documentary project, in collaboration with Women in Geothermal (WinG) and Bless Bless Productions

Shaista de Araújo, 2015 UNU-GEST alumna from Mozambique, attended the 2016 triennial Women Deliver Conference during 16-19 May in Copenhagen, Denmark

In joint partnership between Wikigender and UNU-GEST, seven fellows wrote articles that have been published through the Wikigender University Programme website.

Anne Flaspöler, Postdoctoral Researcher at the EDDA Center of Excellence, has recently published the article “Adding Peacekeepers to the Debates of Critical Liberal Peacebuilding: New Insights from the Perspective of Peacekeeping Training in Africa” in the academic journal Peacebuilding.