13 June 2018
UNU-GEST supports advocates for the rights of disabled women in Uganda
UNU-GEST has received a grant from the Icelandic Gender Equality Fund to support candidates from Uganda who work towards supporting the rights of disabled women. Together with the National Union of Disabled Persons in Uganda, UNU-GEST invites nominations of candidates to attend the post-graduate diploma programme in international gender studies in Reykjavik, in spring semester 2019.
1 June 2018
UNU-GEST and Manouba University offer scholarships for spring term 2019
Manouba University in Tunisia and the UNU-GEST Programme at the University of Iceland invite maters students to apply for a fellowship to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies. The 2019 programme will run from the 8th of January until the 24th of May 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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.