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.
2 March 2017
UNU-GEST fellows visit the President of Iceland
The 2017 cohort of UNU-GEST fellows visited the President of Iceland, Mr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and the First Lady, Mrs. Eliza Reid at Bessastaðir, the presidential residence, on the 27 February. The fellows were warmly greeted by the President and the First Lady.
28 February 2017
UNU-GEST Staff, Associated Researcher and a Fellow talk at the Conference of Humanities 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 Humanities’ Conference 2017. The seminar sets out to explore the global challenges, such as gender inequality, inadequate education, effects of climate change and access to clean water, from the perspective of humanities and asks how this perspective can contribute to increasing justice and equality around the world.
27 February 2017
News from former fellows
At UNU-LRT, we are always delighted to pass on good news from former fellows. Recently, we received news from a few former fellows who have been promoted in their jobs and finished university degrees.
21 February 2017
Announcement of MSc and PhD fellowship recipients
The evaluation of the applications received from former UNU Fellows for UNU-GTP Fellowships for MSc and PhD studies in Iceland has now been carried out. There were 12 valid applications for MSc studies and 5 for the PhD studies, which shows good interest for geothermal studies in Iceland.