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Field trip to Berlín power plant
18 July 2024

Applications open for the Diploma in Geothermal Energy for Latin America, 2024

Applications are now open for the “Diploma in Geothermal Energy for Latin America, 2024” course to be held in El Salvador from the 25th of August to the 7th of December 2024.
16 July 2024

GRÓ GTP Site visits to collaboration countries

Site visits are one of the important activities of GTP. GTP staff recently made site visits to Indonesia, Mongolia, and South America.
15 July 2024

Selection of New Cohort and Summer Closure

Once more, the work of GRÓ GEST‘s admissions committee has been concluded with the selection of next year‘s cohort. For 2025, invitations to join the programme have been sent to over 20 outstanding gender professionals, from over 15 different countries. They represent many walks of life – coming from both the public and private sectors and working in civil society organisations and NGO‘s, government organisations and ministries, and education and research institutions. We cannot wait to welcome them to Iceland come January!
5 July 2024

New Director of GRÓ GTP

On 1 July 2024, Bjarni Richter took over from Gudni Axelsson, as director of GRÓ GTP.
5 July 2024

GRÓ LRT fellows visit the President of Iceland

The GRÓ LRT fellows had the privilege of visiting the President of Iceland, Mr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, at the presidential residence Bessastaðir, this week.
The group within the remnants of birch woodlands found in the vicinity of Mount Hekla
3 July 2024

Excursion through the Hekluskógar restoration project area

Last week, the GRÓ LRT fellows went on an excursion to the Hekluskógar restoration project area in South Iceland. The focus of this trip was on land degradation, ecosystem collapse and the wet deserts in Iceland, while also studying restoration strategies and methods to restore vast areas of severely degraded land.