30 August 2016
UNU Visiting Lecturer 2016 - Jim Koenig from USA
The UNU Visiting Lecturer in 2016 is the American geologist and geothermal specialist Mr. Jim Koenig.
29 August 2016
Chikondi Manyungwa, 2013 fellow, wins the Rosemary Firth Award at the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) Conference
The UNU-GEST team would like to congratulate Chikondi Manyungwa for receiving the Rosemary Firth award for best presenter at the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) Conference.
29 August 2016
Fellow M. M. Mahbub Alam to defend PhD thesis at University of Iceland
On Thursday the 8th of September M. M. Mahbub Alam will defend his Ph.D. thesis in Biology. The thesis is titled: Origin and population structure of major prawn and shrimp species in Bangladesh.
29 August 2016
UNU-GEST and Birzeit University offer scholarships
UNU-GEST and the External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University invite students enrolled in MA/MSc programmes at Birzeit University to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships in the 2017 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland.
28 August 2016
UNU-GTP Fellows run the Reykjavík marathon
Each year the UNU-GTP Fellows are quite active in the various activities i.e. swimming, hiking, camping, running, football among other things.
25 August 2016
UNU-GTP Fellows thinking of the environment
Zoltan Békés, a UNU Fellow from Hungary, collected cooking oil from his kitchen in his residential apartment in Reykjavík since his arrival for the Six Month Training in April this year.