News

13 June 2018

UNU-GEST supports advocates for the rights of disabled women in Uganda

UNU-GEST has received a grant from the Icelandic Gender Equality Fund to support candidates from Uganda who work towards supporting the rights of disabled women. Together with the National Union of Disabled Persons in Uganda, UNU-GEST invites nominations of candidates to attend the post-graduate diploma programme in international gender studies in Reykjavik, in spring semester 2019.
Open call for students of Manouba University, Tunisia
1 June 2018

UNU-GEST and Manouba University offer scholarships for spring term 2019

Manouba University in Tunisia and the UNU-GEST Programme at the University of Iceland invite maters students to apply for a fellowship to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies. The 2019 programme will run from the 8th of January until the 24th of May 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
1 June 2018

NORA Conference 2019 - Call for Abstracts

Gender and feminist researchers are invited to participate in the NORA 2019 Conference on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities. The conference is co-hosted by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, the EDDA Research Center and the United Nations University Gender Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland. You are welcome to contact us on noragender@hi.is
28 May 2018

Birzeit University in Palestine and UNU-GEST offer joint fellowships

The External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University and UNU-GEST invite master's students to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The programme will run from January 8 to May 24, 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland
25 May 2018

UNU-GEST graduates the class of 2018

The UNU-GEST programme celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows yesterday who were awarded a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies from the University of Iceland
23 May 2018

Open seminar "The Press in Palestine"

The open seminar discussing the media landscape in Palestine is hosted by UNU-GEST, the Höfði Reykjavik Peace Centre and the Institute of International Affairs on Thursday, 24 May, from 8:30 to 9:30 at Oddi 101 at the University of Iceland.