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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.

United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP) in Iceland, Geothermal Development Company, Kenya (GDC) and Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Ltd. (KenGen) will be hosting “Course VII on Exploration for Geothermal Resources”, to be held at Lake Bogoria Hotel and at Sopa Lodge, Naivasha, Kenya, October 27 – November 18, 2012.

The UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2011" has been released and is now available for download on-line under publications.

The Fellows' reports from the six month specialized training in 2011 are now on-line on the UNU-GTP website under publications. The release of the UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2011" is expected to be later this month.

On Tuesday the 15th of May at 14:00 in room 131 in Askja at the University of Iceland, Huang Jiachao will defend his MSc thesis, titled: "Assessment and management of sedimentary geothermal resources". Jiachao's supervisor is Guðni Axelsson, head of geophysics and reservoir physics at ISOR (Iceland GeoSurvey). The external examiner is Páll Jónsson physicist at ISOR.

His excellency, Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the State Council of the People‘s Republic of China, came to Iceland on a two-day official visit on 20-21 April. The Premier met with the Icelandic Prime Minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, and he also visited the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The Premier visited various interesting geological sites during his stay in Iceland, but he himself has a degree in geology from the China University of Geoscience. Seventy eight scientists and engineers from China have received specialized training at the UNU-GTP in Iceland. Several of them are among the leading geothermal experts in China.