5 May 2011
MSc defence by Alejandro Rodríguez Badilla
On Wednesday 11th May, Alejandro Rodriguez Badilla will defend his work for degree of Master of Science. The thesis is entitled: "Water-rock interaction of silicic rocks".
The defence will take place in room A131 in Askja and starts at 15.00. The supervisor is Andri Stefánsson from the University of Iceland and the external examiner is
Bergur Sigfússon from Reykjavík Energy.
4 May 2011
Official visit by the Vice-Rector of the UNU to the UNU Icelandic Training Programmes
The Vice-Rector of UNU, Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, was present at the UNU-GTP opening ceremony on Monday the 2nd of May. The purpose of Prof. Takeuchi´s visit to Iceland was to visit the
UNU Icelandic Training Programmes: UNU-Geothermal Training programme (UNU-GTP), UNU-Fisheries Training Programme (UNU-FTP) and UNU-Land Restoration Training Programme (UNU-LRT); as well as the Gender
Equality Studies and Training programme (GEST) which aims at becoming a UNU training programme in the near future.
3 May 2011
Visit from the Vice-Rector of United Nations University
The Vice-Rector of UNU, Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, visited UNU-LRT at its headquarters at Keldnaholt yesterday. He was introduced to the
current fellows of the six-month training programme, the UNU-LRT staff, some studies committee members, and the Director of SCSI and the Rector of AUI.
Prof. Takeuchi is also the Director of UNU-Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) in Tokyo and we had good discussions on the importance of sustainable use of natural resources, restoration
of degraded land, and the mutual benefits of creating cooperation between UNU-ISP and UNU-LRT.
26 April 2011
33rd session of the UNU-GTP
The 33rd annual session of the UNU-GTP opened on Monday 2nd of May.
The Vice Rector of UNU, Prof. Takeuchi was an honourary guest at the opening. The opening ceremony was lead by the Director of the UNU-GTP, Dr. Ingvar B. Fridleifsson, and included a speech by the invited speaker, the Permanent Secretary of State, Dr. Einar
Gunnarsson. After the ceremony the UNU Vice Rector gave a presentation on the work of the United Nations University. This was followed by presentations about the UNU-GTP, the UNU Fisheries Training
Programme (UNU-FTP), and the UNU Land Restoration Training Programme (UNU-LRT).
14 April 2011
New group of UNU-LRT fellows
Fellows attending this
year’s six-month training programme have arrived. This is the second group of fellows attending the programme since it became a UNU training
programme. The fellows this year are eight and come from Ethiopia, Ghana, Niger, Mongolia and Uganda.
5 April 2011
Popularity of UNU-GTP publications
Statistics at the National Energy Authority - Orkustofnun (NEA) show that UNU-GTP reports account for 15 out of the 30 most visited sub pages (URLs) at NEA during the first days of April. The
most visited UNU-GTP report during this period (visited 426 times in 5 days) is an article on pipeline design written by José Luis Henríquez Miranda and Luis Alonso Aguirre López
for the Millennium Short Course held in El Salvador in the January 2011.