28 October 2015
UNU-GEST meets Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women
UNU-GEST management team met with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women, in Iceland last week.
28 October 2015
Congratulations to UNU fellow, Dr. Cyprian Ogombe Odoli
On Thursday, October 22, UNU-FTP fellow and scholarship recipient Cyprian Ogombe Odoli successfully defended his doctoral thesis in food science at the University of Iceland. His project title was "Drying and smoking of capelin and sardine - the influence on physiochemical properties and consumer acceptance." Dr. Odoli did his doctoral work at Matis in Reykjavik and the Kenyan Marine & Fisheries Research Institute in Mombasa through support of the United Nations University.
27 October 2015
UNU-LRT presented at UNCCD COP12 in Ankara
From 12 – 23 October, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) hosted its Twelfth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP12) in Ankara, Turkey. At COP12, delegates focused on solutions to issues related to desertification, land degradation and drought, including how to pursue the target to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) and how to align the recently adopted Global Goals for Sustainable Development with the goals and action programmes of UNCCD. It was emphasised that by restoring degraded land and promoting sustainable land management, many of the Global Goals will be more attainable, including increased food and water security, less hunger and poverty and reversed negative climate change impacts.
UNU-LRT organized a side event at COP 12, which presented the annual six-month training programme as a model for providing the capacity building necessary to support land degradation neutrality initiatives.
19 October 2015
Release of Geothermal Training in Iceland 2014
The UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2014" has now been published on print and released online and is now available for download under publications.
12 October 2015
Welcome UNU-FTP fellows 2015
This fall, the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme welcomed its 18th cohort to Iceland for the six month training programme.
10 October 2015
UNU Fellows introduce their final projects
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014, the UNU Fellows of the Six Month Training Programme will introduce their final projects.