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UNU-GEST and RIKK Háskóli Íslands co-host our next Lecture series event on 23/03 from 12-13pm at the National Museum of Iceland lecture hall.

Dr. Selim Jahan, editor-in-chief of the Human Development Report 2016 ‘Human Development for Everyone’ and Director of the UNDP Human Development Report Office, introduces the 2016 HDR and its main findings on Friday 24 March, 16:00-17:30 at Hannesarholt.

UNU-GEST former fellow, Laureen Karayi Nabimanya​, Programme Coordinator Uganda Women's Network (UWONET)​, is one of the WINNERS of the prestigious WEE Leadership Awards 2017 by Oxfam​ Knowledge Hub on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture.

Anne Flaspöler, UNU-GEST Researcher's post on Peacekeeping Training published on "Challenges to Peacekeeping in the 21st Century" Blog Series by UNU-MERIT.

UNU-GEST staff members, Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir and Dr. Pétur Waldorff; Dr. Giti Chandra, an associated researcher and the fellow Ekram Osman from Ethiopia will participate in the seminar called “Discrimination, justice and the role of humanities” at the University of Iceland as a part of the Hugvísindaþing Humanities’ Conference 2017.

We seek to support strong researchers currently based outside Iceland in applying for Individual European Fellowships under the above scheme in which gender is one of the main cross-cutting theme this year. Applicants can be of any nationality but must not have spent more than 12 months in the last 3 years in the Iceland.