29 January 2025
Strengthening Partnerships: GRÓ GEST Operations Manager Visits Sierra Leone
In January 2025, GRÓ GEST‘s Operations Manager, Guðrún Eysteinsdóttir, embarked on a mission to Sierra Leone at the invitation of Ásdís Bjarnadóttir, Head of Mission at the Icelandic Embassy in Freetown, to participate in the inaugural African Maritime Gender Network (AMGN) conference
22 January 2025
GRÓ Fisheries Training Programme Praised in External Evaluation
GRÓ Fisheries Training Programme (GRÓ FTP) received praise from GOPA in the latest external evaluation of the GRÓ Centre and four GRÓ programmes.
22 January 2025
Change and continuity
Exploring future trends for fisheries, the FTP fellows asked questions like “what is likely to change and what will probably continue”, during the fourth week of the Six month training programme.
22 January 2025
Dr. Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh GRÓ LRT alumna’s contribution to addressing overgrazing and rangeland degradation - a major environmental challenge in Mongolia
Dr. Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh, the first GRÓ LRT PhD scholarship recipient, graduated from the Agricultural University of Iceland in 2022 with a doctoral degree in Environmental Science. Today she works as a rangeland management specialist at The Nature Conservancy in Mongolia where she can directly apply her wealth of knowledge to contribute to rangeland science and tackle overgrazing and rangeland degradation, which is a major environmental challenge in her home country Mongolia. The GRÓ centre asked Sumjidmaa to share information about her career and how her work is contributing to sustainable land management in Mongolia.
20 January 2025
Open Call for Nominations for the 2026 GRÓ GEST Programme
The GRÓ Gender Equality Studies and Training (GRÓ GEST) programme calls for nominations for its academic programme in 2026. The deadline for nominations is 8 March 2025.
13 January 2025
Two new GRÓ LRT scholarships for MSc studies in Restoration Ecology 2025-2027
GRÓ LRT will award two new scholarships to graduates of the UNU LRT/GRÓ LRT six-month training programme, enabling them to pursue a master’s degree in Restoration Ecology at the Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI), beginning on 18th of August 2025, in Iceland.