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3 February 2017
Lecture series event: Keiko Nowacka from the OECD Development Centre discusses SDG#5
"Achieving the gender SDGs: the OECD Development Centre's work on social norms, gender statistics and transformative policy making" is a lecture given by Keiko Nowacka on Thursday, 9 February at 12:00, in the National Museum’s lecture hall. Keiko is the second lecturer in the UNU-GEST & RIKK 2017 Spring Lecture Series.
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27 January 2017
UNU-FTP fellow Chrisphine Nyamweya to defend PhD at the University of Iceland
Chrisphine Sangara Nyamweya of Kenya first came to Iceland as a fellow of the UNU-FTP in 2012. Through funding provided by the UNU-FTP, he enrolled in a doctoral programme at the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences a the University of Iceland. He will defend his PhD in Ecological Modeling at the Hátíðarsalur in the University of Iceland's Main Building on Monday, January 30th at 10:00.
19 January 2017
First RIKK and UNU-GEST lecture series event; documentary screening and discussions 19.01.17
"Notes towards a history", an experimental documentary by Francesca Soans, was screened today at the Iceland National Museum's lecture. This was the first event of UNU-GEST and RIKK lecture series for the spring semester of 2017.
17 January 2017
UNU- GEST welcomes the class of 2017!
The United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland is welcoming eighteen fellows, twelve women and six men, during the spring semester of 2017.
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16 January 2017
Welcome UNU-FTP Guest Lecturer, Dr. Barry Costa-Pierce
The UNU-FTP is pleased to welcome this year’s guest lecturer, Dr. Barry Costa-Pierce, who is currently the Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of New England. Dr. Costa-Pierce will present lectures at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute January 23-25, 2017. These lectures are open to the public.
13 January 2017
Popularity of the UNU-GTP publications
The number of views or 'hits' each report got from our website for 2016 is summarized in the table below.