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GRO-LRT
30 July 2021
Beatrice Dossah, GRÓ LRT scholarship recipient, graduates from University of Iceland
Beatrice Dossah from Ghana and a former GRÓ LRT fellow (2017), graduated in June with an MSc in Environment and Natural Resources from the University of Iceland. After completing her six-month training in Iceland, she was accepted to the MSc programme at the University of Iceland in 2019 and granted a GRÓ LRT scholarship for post-graduate studies in Iceland.
GRO-GEST
15 July 2021
GRÓ GEST facilitates Teaching Gender to Youth with Girls of A Feather, St. Lucia
GRÓ GEST had the pleasure of facilitating a two-day online version of the short course Teaching Gender to Youth, in partnership with Girls of A Feather in St. Lucia on 12-13 July.
GRO-GTP
7 July 2021
New Director General of the GRÓ Centre
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir is the new Director General of the GRÓ Centre.
GRO-LRT
2 July 2021
Field excursion with climate change focus
This week GRÓ LRT fellows went on a three-day excursion to the south and southeast of Iceland. The focus was on climate change and its effects on ecosystems and societies. The fellows visited Visitor Centres of the Vatnajökull National Park and learned about the parks natural and cultural heritage. They walked up to the Skaftafellsjökull outlet glacier and observed how the glacier has retreated for last 100 years and how the rate of retreat and thinning has increased in the last decades.