2 July 2021
Field excursion with climate change focus
This week GRÓ LRT fellows went on a three-day excursion to the south and southeast of Iceland. The focus was on climate change and its effects on ecosystems and societies. The fellows visited Visitor Centres of the Vatnajökull National Park and learned about the parks natural and cultural heritage. They walked up to the Skaftafellsjökull outlet glacier and observed how the glacier has retreated for last 100 years and how the rate of retreat and thinning has increased in the last decades.
18 June 2021
Home country seminar of the GRÓ GTP Fellows
On Monday 21 June, the Fellows participating in the Six Month Training Programme will make a short presentation on geothermal development and utilisation in their home countries.
18 June 2021
Visit from new GRÓ Director General
This week, the Fisheries Training Programme was pleased to welcome the newly appointed Director General for the GRÓ Centre, Ms. Nína Björk Jónsdóttir.
Ms. Jónsdóttir and Mr Jón Karl Ólafsson, Chairman of the GRÓ Board, were welcomed by thh GRÓ-FTP staff, who introduced the programme and its new facility at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute in Hafnarfjörður.
16 June 2021
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir new Director General of GRÓ
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir has taken over as Director General for GRÓ, Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change. She succeeds Friðrik Jónsson who was elected Chairman of the Icelandic Confederation of University Graduates (BHM) on 27 May.
16 June 2021
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir nýr forstöðumaður GRÓ
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir hefur tekið við sem forstöðumaður GRÓ, þekkingarmiðstöðvar þróunarsamvinnu. Hún tekur við af Friðrik Jónssyni, sem var kjörinn formaður BHM 27. maí sl.
15 June 2021
Visit from GRÓ International Centre
GRÓ LRT welcomed today Ms Nína Björk Jónsdóttir, the new Director General for GRÓ, and Mr Jón Karl Helgason, the chairman of the GRÓ Governing Board, to Keldnaholt campus.