5 September 2012
Annual Visiting Lecturer at the UNU-GTP 2012
This year, the annual UNU Visiting Lecturer is Cornel Ofwona, reservoir engineer at the Geothermal Dvelopment Company (GDC) in Kenya. Cornel is a former Fellow and did his 6 months studies in reservoir engineering at UNU-GTP in 1996. He later returned for a MSc degree at the University of Iceland in 2001 on a scholarship from the UNU-GTP. He graduated with his MSc degree in 2002 and is now one of the leading reservoir engineers at GDC.
The lectures take place in Víðgelmir in Orkugarður, Grensásvegur 9, between the 3. - 7. of September, starting at 09:00. Each lecture is about an hour long.
24 August 2012
Annual field excursion of UNU-LRT six-month training
In July and August, the 2012 UNU-LRT fellows participated in field excursions, which are essential part of the UNU-LRT six-month training course. In previous years this activity has included one-week excursion but this year it involved two 3-day trips.
23 August 2012
UNU-FTP Visits Ghana and Nigeria
UNU-FTP director Tumi Tomasson and Assistant Director Thor Asgeirsson are currently visiting Ghana and Nigeria to meet with fisheries officials and interview potential candidates in those countries.
26 July 2012
UNU-FTP Fellows reunite at IIFET Conference in Dar es Salaam
This month, the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) held a conference in Tanzania with the cooperation of the University of Dar es Salaam.
25 July 2012
Two short courses held in Tanzania
The UNU-FTP, Matis and the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development held two short courses on Quality Assurance and Processing in the Artisinal Pelagic fisheries in Tanzania for the district fisheries officers who support Beach Management Units which manage individual landing sites in Tanzania.
18 July 2012
Course on Geothermal Technology
A 13 week customer-designed „Course on Geothermal Technology“, organized by the UNU-GTP in accordance to the requirements of Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), was concluded in Naivasha, Kenya on Friday, July 13.