The seminar Protection, Gender and Inclusion will take place on 21 and 22 October 2021 and is hosted in partnership of GRÓ GEST and the Icelandi Red Cross with financial support from the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This week senior researcher Giti Chandra and academic coordinator Thomas Brorsen Smidt of GRÓ-GEST took part in the intra-Nordic workshop “Decolonizing Nordic Higher Education” at Södertörn University in Stockholm. The workshop, which was held on Oct...

This week, on 3-5 of October, GEST project manager Dr Thomas Brorsen Smidt travelled to Athens to facilitate a workshop on script writing for podcasting and how to make feminist knowledge and women’s empowerment accessible through mono-sensory media.

GRÓ GEST joins Höfði Reykjavík Peace Centre in hosting its annual conference on peace, this year in cooperation with the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs and The Institute for Sustainability Studies. The conference takes place on Friday, 8 October from 12 pm to 4.30 pm at Veröld - The House of Vigdís at the University of Iceland. See programme here: https://ams.overcastcdn.com/documents/The_Imagine_Forum_programme.pdf