News

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.
10 May 2018

Home country seminar of the UNU-GTP Fellows

On Friday 11th May, the Fellows participating in the Six Month Training Programme will make a short presentation on geothermal development and utilisation in their home countries.
9 May 2018

New paper on sheep grazing and land degradation of Icelandic ecosystems

A new paper on sheep grazing and Icelandic ecosystems has been recently published in the journal Land Degradation & Development. The paper “The sheep in wolf’s clothing? Recognizing threats for land degradation in Iceland using state‐and‐transition models” is led by Isabel C Barrio, project manager at UNU-LRT and co-authored by several UNU-LRT lecturers.
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.
3 May 2018

MSc defence by Samuel Ng‘ang‘a

Samuel Ikinya Ng‘ang‘a, MSc Fellow in drilling technology at Reykjavík University will give a presentation on his MSc project on Friday 4 May, 2018 at 08:00 at Reykjavík University, room M116.
The three fellows with the Icelandic students
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