10 April 2013
Leadership Short Course with the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism
This week, the UNU-FTP is holding a short course on Leadership in cooperation with the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) for senior fisheries officers. The course was developed in collaboration with the University of Belize and the University of Akureyri, and the content is based on a similar course held by the UNU-FTP in 2010.
10 April 2013
UNU-FTP welcomes experts from Namibia
This week, the UNU-FTP is hosting two experts fro the Natural Marine Research and Information Center in Namibia in Iceland. While here, this delegation will explore potential opportunities for collaboration with the UNU-FTP in the area of stock assessment.
8 April 2013
M.Eng defence by Luis Alonso Aguirre Lopes
On Tuesday the 9th of April at 14:00 in room 147 in VR-II at the University of Iceland, Luis Alonso Aguirre Lopes will defend his M.Eng thesis, titled: "Modelling and Stability Analysis of Berlin Geothermal Power Plant in El Salvador".
His supervisor is Magni Þór Pálsson. With him in the commitee is Ólöf Helgadóttir. The external examiner is Ragnar Kristjánsson.
Everyone's welcome to attend.
25 March 2013
New staff member
UNU-LRT welcomes a new staff member. Ms. Halldora Traustadottir recently started working full time for the programme as office manager. She has BA in Anthropolgy from the University of Iceland and MA in Development Studies and Educational Studies from Roskilde University in Denmark. Furthermore, Halldora was recently awarded a postgraduate diploma in Applied Gender Studies from the University of Iceland.
20 March 2013
UNU-LRT fellows 2013
The fellows attending this year’s six-month training programme have arrived. This year the fellows are eleven and come from Ethiopia (1), Ghana (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Malawi (1), Mongolia (1), Namibia (1), Niger (2), and Uganda (2); five women and six men. The training started on 12 March in Reykjavik but the fellows will also get training at the headquarters of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland this summer.
19 March 2013
Short Course V on Conceptual Modelling of Geothermal Systems in El Salvador, held in El Salvador 24 February - 2 March 2013
The annual “UN Millennium Development Goals” Short Course in El Salvador was held in February 24 – March 2, 2013. The topic of the course was “Conceptual Modelling of Geothermal Systems” which drew a lot of interest. The course was attended by 61 participants from 12 countries all over Latin America and the Caribbean, including 5 Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua), 4 South American countries (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), 2 Caribbean islands (Dominica and Nevis), and Mexico.