1 June 2018
NORA Conference 2019 - Call for Abstracts
Gender and feminist researchers are invited to participate in the NORA 2019 Conference on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities.
The conference is co-hosted by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, the EDDA Research Center and the United Nations University Gender Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland.
You are welcome to contact us on noragender@hi.is
28 May 2018
Birzeit University in Palestine and UNU-GEST offer joint fellowships
The External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University and UNU-GEST invite master's students to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The programme will run from January 8 to May 24, 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland
25 May 2018
UNU-GEST graduates the class of 2018
The UNU-GEST programme celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows yesterday who were awarded a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies from the University of Iceland
25 May 2018
International guest lecturer at UNU-LRT
The main international lecturer at UNU-LRT this year is Dr Richard Thomas, Scientific Coordinator of ELD (the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative) and Consultant to ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas). Dr Thomas has vast experience in managing and implementing research projects on natural resources management and a great deal of his work has been on strengthening managerial and institutional capacity by building networks between scientists from many parts of the world, including Africa, Asia and Latin America.
24 May 2018
Value Chain workshop in Trinidad
A regional workshop on Value Chain management was held in Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago May 22-24 2018. The concept of value chain in fisheries has been identified as one of key areas for development in the Caribbean fisheries. This workshop is part of a long-standing collaboration between the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism and UNU-FTP.
23 May 2018
MSc defence by Kennedy Kamunya
Kennedy Mativo Kamunya, MSc Fellow in geochemistry at University of Iceland will give a presentation on his MSc project on Friday 25 May, 2018 at 13:30 at University of Iceland, Askja building, room 130.