15 March 2017
UNU-GEST former fellow Laureen Karayi (UWONET) from Uganda WEE Leadership Awards 2017 winner!
UNU-GEST former fellow, Laureen Karayi Nabimanya, Programme Coordinator Uganda Women's Network (UWONET), is one of the WINNERS of the prestigious WEE Leadership Awards 2017 by Oxfam Knowledge Hub on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture.
13 March 2017
Anne Flaspöler, UNU-GEST Researcher's new blog post "Peacekeeping Training: Torn Between Complexity and Time" for UNU-MERIT.
Anne Flaspöler, UNU-GEST Researcher's post on Peacekeeping Training published on "Challenges to Peacekeeping in the 21st Century" Blog Series by UNU-MERIT.
8 March 2017
UNU-GEST staff to participate in the “Discrimination, justice and the role of humanities" Seminar - Hugvísindaþing Humanities’ Conference 2017.
UNU-GEST staff members, Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir and Dr. Pétur Waldorff; Dr. Giti Chandra, an associated researcher and the fellow Ekram Osman from Ethiopia will participate in the seminar called “Discrimination, justice and the role of humanities” at the University of Iceland as a part of the Hugvísindaþing Humanities’ Conference 2017.
7 March 2017
Short Course VII on Geothermal Drilling Operations is underway in Azores Islands
This Short Course is a three-week event, specially intended for a drilling crew. It started on February 20th and is scheduled to end on March 10.
7 March 2017
New members on the UNU-GTP studies board
The UNU-GTP is academically governed by a Studies Board, whose members are experts in their field and are responsible for each of the specialized study lines relating to their field. The start of 2017 has brought about the necessity of changes in our Studies Board. This includes the retirement of Mr. Sverrir Thórhallsson, who is probably our longest serving member of the Studies Board from the start. Furthermore, we will be losing Dr. Björn S. Hardarson, who is moving to Scotland in the spring, to be united with his wife, the painter Ishbel MacDonald.
3 March 2017
Call for Expressions of Interest in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2017 Competition
We seek to support strong researchers currently based outside Iceland in applying for Individual European Fellowships under the above scheme in which gender is one of the main cross-cutting theme this year. Applicants can be of any nationality but must not have spent more than 12 months in the last 3 years in the Iceland.