1 July 2022
GRÓ LRT visit to partner institutions in Ghana
Last week, the Deputy Director of GRÓ LRT, Ms Berglind Orradóttir, visited GRÓ LRT’s partner institutions in Ghana: Environmental Protection Agency Ghana, both the Head Office in Accra and the Regional Office in Tamale; the CSIR-Soil Research Institute in Kumasi; and the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute and the University for Development Studies, both in Tamale. The purpose of the visit was to meet the directors of the four institutions and interview potential candidates for GRÓ LRT Fellowship to attend our annual six-month training in Iceland. And as always in GRÓ LRT’s visits to partner countries, the Deputy Director also met with GRÓ LRT alumni in Ghana, but 24 specialists from the four institutions have completed GRÓ LRT training in Iceland.
27 June 2022
Ársskýrsla GRÓ 2020-2021 komin út
Fyrsta ársskýrsla GRÓ ̶ Þekkingarmiðstöðvar þróunarsamvinnu er komin út. Skýrslan nær yfir fyrstu tvö árin í starfsemi miðstöðvarinnar, 2020-2021. GRÓ er sjálfstæð miðstöð sem tók til starfa 1. janúar 2020 og starfar undir merkjum UNESCO, Mennta-, vísinda- og menningarmálastofnunar Sameinuðu þjóðanna. Miðstöðin fellur undir utanríkisráðuneytið sem sinnir eftirliti og umsýslu með framlögum til hennar.
27 June 2022
GRÓ Annual Report 2020-2021
The Annual Report for the first two years of GRÓ‘s activity, 2020-2021, is now available online. GRÓ ̶ The International Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Societal Change was established on 1 January 2020 and operates under the auspices of UNESCO as a Category 2 Centre in Iceland. The Centre operates under its own legal identity and is guided and overseen by a Governing Board, appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, and set up as a unit within the Ministry.
27 June 2022
Geothermal diploma course for Latin America held in El Salvador
GRÓ GTP, LaGeo and the University of El Salvador (UES) are conducting the Geothermal Diploma Course for Latin America in El Salvador.
24 June 2022
Alumni event in Kampala
On Tuesday 7 June 2022, GEST alumni from Uganda gathered at the Icelandic Embassy in Kampala for an alumni network event.
20 June 2022
Visit from PROBLUE
Recently GRÓ-FTP had a visit from the PROBLUE trust fund. The guests were here in Iceland in connection with the annual meeting of the fund’s Partnership Council, which this time was hosted by the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs. They were keen to learn about GRÓ-FTP’s mission as a capacity building programme in the fisheries sector.