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7 November 2025

GRÓ GTP's impact over almost 50 years: 'Investing in people is the most powerful renewable energy of all.'

The impact of nearly fifty years of Iceland‘s efforts to promote and advance geothermal energy around the world through the GRÓ Geothermal Training Programme was highlighted at the first event of a series focused on the four GRÓ Training Programmes: From Knowledge to Development Impact that took place on the 5th of November 2025 at the University of Iceland’s Ceremonial Hall. The recording is available online.
7 November 2025

Nearly 50 Years of Achievements by the GRÓ Geothermal Training Programme

It’s remarkable to think that Iceland was still classified as a developing country up until 1976. Around that same time, Icelanders began considering how they could best contribute to development and prosperity around the world, as a donor country in international development cooperation.
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.
Mr. Edmond Moukala, UNESCO representative in Ghana, welcomes the participants to the roundtable in Accra.
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.