25 April 2009
31st Annual Session at UNU-GTP
The 31st annual session of the UNU-GTP opened on April 21st, 2009. This year 21 UNU Fellows participate in the six month specialized courses. They come from Albania 1, Algeria 1, China 2, Costa
Rica 1, Djibouti 2, El Salvador 1, Iran 1, Kenya 3, Mexico 1, Mongolia 1, Rwanda 2, Tanzania 1, Uganda 2, Yemen 1 and Zambia 1. They will be trained in: Geothermal Utilization 4, Chemistry of Thermal
Fluids 4, Reservoir Engineering 6, Geological Exploration 2, Geophysical Exploration 4, and Drilling Engineering 1. In addition there is one short term Fellow from Nicaragua participating in the
programme for 3 months in the specialized course Reservoir Engineering.
22 April 2009
Director on leave
Dr. Tumi Tomasson has temporarily taken a post in Sri Lanka as the country director for Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA). Dr. Tomasson will be, as from April 1st
2008, on leave from UNU-FTP for 15 months and in the meantime his deputy, Mr. Thor Asgeirsson, will act as the programme director.
22 April 2009
Visiting lecturer 2007
To honor the new line of specialization on aquaculture the visiting lecturer this year
is Prof. Sena S. De Silva the general director of NACA, the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific.
5 April 2009
New Project Manager of the LRT
Dr. Hafdís Hanna Aegisdóttir became the new Project
Manager of the LRT programme on April the 1st 2009. She has been the Assistant Project Manager since April 2008 but will now replace Dr.
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, who has been the Project Manager from the beginning of the programme. Ingibjörg S.
Jónsdóttir is now a professor in ecology at the University of Iceland.
You can read more about the academic background and work experience of Hafdis Hanna here.
10 March 2009
Visit from the President of Iceland, His Excellency Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme
On Wednesday Mach 4, 2009, the President of Iceland, His Excellency Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, was on an official visit to the National Energy
Authority, where he addressed the importance of renewable energy resources in the global battle on climate change.
10 March 2009
The Kenya Short Course CD, 2008, is ready
The CD with papers and presentations from "Short Course III on Exploration for Geothermal resources" organized by UNU-GTP and KenGen in Naivasha, Kenya, 24 October -
17 Novemer 2008, is finally ready and will be mailed out to participants in the Short Course during this week. Other parties interested in a copy of the CD should send a request by e-mail to
unugtp@os.is