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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
GRÓ LRT fellows with a some of the books donated by Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature.
24 May 2023

GRÓ fellows receive a book donation from Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature

Fellows currently attending the GRÓ Land Restoration Training Programme recently received a handsome donation of almost 40 translated books by Icelandic authors from Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature. The books will be available to fellows staying at the GRÓ house on Grensásvegur.
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.
16 May 2023

MSc defence by Sadock Josephat Zakaria

Sadock Josephat Zakaria from Tanzania, MSc Fellow in Geochemistry at the University of Iceland will defend his MSc project on Thursday 25th of May at 12:53-13:03 in Room N-132 in Askja building at University of Iceland.  The presentation will be a part of the UI series "Open seminar at Masters-day of Natural Sciences" and will be 10-12 min long with 3 min allowance for questions.  
16 May 2023

GEST Final Seminar 2023

The 2023 GRÓ GEST Cohort will present their final assignments in a seminar to be held on Friday 19th May from 8:55 - 16:05 o'clock. Click to view the programme and for the live streaming link.