News

11 July 2023

Sonal Dhanani Receives the 2023 March 8 Fund

It is our great pleasure to announce that a €9,700 grant from the 2023 GRÓ GEST March 8 Fund has been awarded to Sonal Dhanani, GEST alumna of 2022 for the project Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion Advocacy Hub.
20 June 2023

GRÓ GEST visits Birzeit University

GRÓ GEST was invited to attend the international staff week at Birzeit University, Palestine, during the week 5-9 June 2023. The visit was a part of the ERASMUS+ staff mobility, facilitated by the International Office at the University of Iceland, and funded by the European Union.
7 June 2023

Recordings for a New Online Course

This week a group of international top scholars in the fields of gender, psychology and masculinity studies, visited Iceland to record material for the upcoming GRÓ GEST online course Men, Boys and Masculinities.
24 May 2023

Graduation of the GRÓ GEST Fellows 2023

GRÓ GEST celebrates the graduation of its 15th cohort
24 May 2023

GRÓ GEST Graduation Live Stream 2023

View the 2023 graduation live stream here
22 May 2023

GEST Fellows' Annual Field Visit

The 2023 GEST cohort travelled around the south of Iceland in mid-May. The field visit is annual; this year it was a combination of a celebratory field visit, as the fellows had completed all of GEST’s written assignments, and a study visit related to the module on Gender, Environment and Climate Change which was the last module in the academic programme.