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6 October 2024

GRÓ GEST PhD Fellow Publishes in International Journal

Yeshiwas Degu Belay publishes on Ethiopia’s Engagement in Peace Operations

30 September 2024

Visiting Lecturers 2024

are Adam Schultz, Antoine Lochet, Gunnar Haraldsson

20 September 2024

GRÓ meeting with a delegation from Mongolia

The work of the four GRÓ training progammes was presented to a delegation from Mongolia that visited Iceland in September, as part of a high-level sustainable finance and business innovation exchange, organised by the Nordic House in Mongolia.

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.