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1 June 2017

UNU-GEST Director Gives a Talk at the first Nordic Science, Technology and Innovation Seminar on Women in Renewable Energy in Japan

UNU-GEST Director, Dr. Irma Erlingsdóttir, gives a lecture on women in the renewable energy sector at the first Nordic Science, Technology and Innovation (NORSTI) seminar in Japan, held at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo on 31 May 2017
Graduation ceremony of Geothermal Diploma Course for Latin America – Edition 2016
1 June 2017

Geothermal diploma course for Latin America to be held in El Salvador

UNU-GTP, LaGeo and the University of El Salvador (UES) will be conducting the Geothermal Diploma Course for Latin America in El Salvador from June 26 to December 1.
31 May 2017

UNU-GEST present at the 1st Asia-Europe Conference on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Lithuania

UNU-GEST Project Assistant Laura Malinauskaite attended the first Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference “Women's Economic Empowerment: Creating Equal Opportunities in the World of Work”, which was held on May 25-26 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Conference focused on different aspects of women’s economic empowerment and provided a platform for a fruitful dialogue between policy-makers, public and private sectors, innovators, entrepreneurs, ender equality advocates and research institutions.
The short course curriculum development team
29 May 2017

Visit from Uganda – short course development

UNU-LRT will carry out a short course in Uganda in September this year with its Ugandan partner institutions, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and Makerere University. The short course will be on sustainable land management, land restoration and linkages with climate change. In mid-May, the Ugandan members of the curriculum development team visited Iceland to attend a working meeting with their counterparts from UNU-LRT, in order to develop the short course curriculum.
24 May 2017

Class of 2017 graduates from the UNU-GEST diploma programme

The UNU-GEST celebrated the graduation of 18 fellows awarded a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies. The fellows come from 12 different countries and this year´s graduating class is the largest since the beginning of the programme. A total of 86 students have graduated from the UNU-GEST programme.
17 May 2017

Class of 2017 UNU-GEST fellows present final assignments

The UNU-GEST programme and the class of 2017 fellows would like to extend an invite to an event where fellows will present their final assignments. The event takes place on Monday 22 May 2017 from 11:00 -16:00 in room 101 in Oddi, University of Iceland campus. The event is held in English and open to all.