29 October 2025
GRÓ GTP topic of the first event in a series on the development impact of the GRÓ Training Programmes
Join us for the first event in a series highlighting Iceland’s contribution to global capacity building through the four GRÓ Training Programmes, a key component of Iceland‘s international development cooperation. This first session focuses on the Geothermal Training Programme (GRÓ GTP), an intiative established in 1978 designed to strengthen geothermal exploration and development in countries with geothermal potential.
16 September 2025
UNESCO Roundtable in Ghana Tackles Gender, Climate Change, and Exploitation in Fisheries
Roundtable Discussion on Transactional Sex for Fish in Coastal Ghana
26 August 2025
Margaret Masette, FTP fellow from 1999, passed away at the age of 70
As a young fisheries scientist from Uganda, Dr. Margaret Masette joined the Fisheries Training Programme in Iceland just one year after its establishment and she remained a devoted member of the FTP alumni community throughout her career.
19 August 2025
Ragavan, a fellow from 2018, completes his PhD
It is fair to say that the fruits of Iceland´s development support, through the work of the GRÓ Fisheries Training Programme, is evidently clear in the Sri Lanka fisheries today.
30 July 2025
GRÓ Annual Report 2024 published
The year 2024 was an active and productive one for GRÓ – Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change – and the four training programmes focusing on fisheries, gender equality, geothermal energy and land restoration. A total of 97 specialists graduated from the five to six-month training in 2024, bringing the total number of GRÓ alumni to 1,767. Seven GRÓ scholarship recipients graduated, two with a PhD and 5 with a Master’s degree. In addition, several short courses were held in the partner countries, and a new online course was launched.
27 June 2025
The small country that teaches the world – Iceland and development cooperation through the education of the GRÓ programmes
A translation of an original article appearing in visir.is June 27 2025