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20 September 2018

UNU Fellows of the Six Month Training Programme introduce their final projects

On Wednesday, 26 September 2018, the UNU Fellows of the Six Month Training Programme will introduce their final projects.
Graduating and former fellows on graduation day
19 September 2018

Graduation at UNU-LRT

On 14 September 17 fellows graduated from the annual six-month training programme at UNU-LRT. The graduation of the 10 women and 7 men was celebrated with a ceremony at the Keldnaholt research campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland. Two of the graduating fellows came from Tajikistan, a new UNU-LRT partner country. Other fellows from Asia came from Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and fellows from Africa came from Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, and Uganda.
14 September 2018

2018 cohort of fellows coming

UNU-FTP is expecting the arrival of the 2018 cohort of fellows in the next few days. This year’s group is one of the biggest ever to start the Six Month Training Programme; 25 people from 16 countries in Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
7 September 2018

Dr. Giti Chandra opens this terms RIKK lecture series

On Thursday, 06th of September, Dr. Giti Chandra opened this terms lecture series organized by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference with her lecture “The Anonymous Feminist: Agency, Trauma, and Personhood in the #MeToo Movement.
Ms Nana Esi Assiredua Aidoo presents her project
4 September 2018

Fellows present final projects at an open seminar

The UNU-LRT fellows in this years’ six-month training programme are finalizing their research projects these days. They have been working on their projects for the last months under the supervision of specialists from various institutes and organizations in Iceland. This week they presented their research findings in an open seminar at the research campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland.