The GRÓ LRT Director, Dr. Sjöfn Vilhelmsdóttir, traveled to Mongolia from January 18 to 25 to visit partner institutions, meet with senior management, and interview candidates for the GRÓ LRT annual six-month training in Iceland. Mongolia has been a key partner country for GRÓ LRT since the programme's inception in 2007. Over the past 18 years, GRÓ LRT has welcomed fellows from ten Mongolian institutions, including academic and research institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organisations.

GRÓ LRT will award two new scholarships to graduates of the UNU LRT/GRÓ LRT six-month training programme, enabling them to pursue a master’s degree in Restoration Ecology at the Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI), beginning on 18th of August 2025, in Iceland.

In November, GRÓ LRT, in collaboration with the Icelandic Red Cross, organized a two-day training session on community-based forest landscape restoration in Sierra Leone. The training was held on November 20–21 in Freetown and was attended by 20 staff members and volunteers from the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society.

An external evaluation of the GRÓ LRT programme, conducted as part of a broader assessment of the GRÓ Centre and its four Iceland-based training programmes from 2018 to 2023, highlighted the impressive results of the GRÓ programmes. The evaluation co...