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Makoye Mabula Didas was born on February 5, 1983, in Ukerewe district, Mwanza region in Tanzania. He graduated with a BSc degree in 2010 and MSc in 2016 in Geology at the University of Dar es Salaam. After earning his MSc degree, Didas joined the Tanzania Geothermal Development Company Limited (TGDC) as a Geophysicist and has been working there since. In 2018 he took part in the Six Month Geothermal Training Program at the GTP in Iceland. He began pursuing a PhD in Geophysics at the University of Iceland on a GTP Scholarship in 2019. Didas is married to Jane Gelard Kilongo and they have a son, Ebenezer, and a daughter, Eliana.
16 September 2024

PhD defence by Makoye Mabula Didas

on Tuesday 8th of Oct. 13:00-15:00, Aula hall of UI.
11 September 2024

ARGeo-C10 conference coming up in Tanzania

ARGeo-C10 is held 21st - 27th October this year in Tanzania.
The Icelandic delegation at the meeting, the GRÓ team and the President of Iceland, Halla Tómasdóttir
9 September 2024

GRÓ‘s work presented to Nordic UNESCO family

The work of GRÓ – Centre for Capacity development, sustainability and societal change, and in particular the four GRÓ training programmes on fisheries, gender equality, geothermal energy and land restoration, was presented to the Nordic UNESCO family at their annual meeting that took place in Hveragerði, Iceland, in the beginning of September.
6 September 2024

Gistiaðstaða fyrir GRÓ - Forkönnun

GRÓ – Þekkingarmiðstöð þróunarsamvinnu leitar að gistiaðstöðu á höfuðborgarsvæðinu til langtímaleigu, fyrir 25–50 einstaklinga frá og með 1. september 2025 (eða eftir samkomulagi). Um er að ræða langtímaleigu til 3–5 ára, með möguleika á framlengingu.
31 August 2024

MSc defence by Agata Rostran Largaespada

on Monday 2nd of August at 14:00 at Reykjavík University
29 August 2024

Congratulations to the GRÓ LRT fellows of 2024

The GRÓ Land Restoration Training Programme celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows from its six-month training on 27 August at the Keldnaholt campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland. This is the 17th graduating cohort of GRÓ LRT and the first time the programme has graduated fellows from Kenya, a new GRÓ LRT partner country. The cohort includes fellows from nine countries in Africa and Central Asia: Ghana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mongolia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, and Uganda.