Stories of alumni

GRÓ GTP and GEST alumni, with staff of the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, the Director General of GRÓ, the Permanent delegate of Iceland to UNESCO and the Consul of Iceland in Nairobi.

22 March 2023

GRÓ alumni in Kenya meet with UNESCO‘s Regional Office for Eastern Africa

Kenya has outgrown Iceland in terms of electricity generated with its geothermal resources.

Participants with Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, Martin Eyjólfsson, at the Gender Equality Event at the UN House, New Delhi.

9 March 2023

GRÓ GEST presented at Gender Equality Event in New Delhi

Four alumni from the GRÓ Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (GRÓ GEST) gave lively accounts of their participation in the programme and how it has benefitted them in their work, at an event organised on International Women's Day, 8th March, in New Delhi. The event was organised by the Embassy of Iceland in New Delhi, in cooperation with the offices of UN Women and UNESCO in the country.

3 March 2023

GRÓ Alumni Event in Kampala

The delegation visiting Þorbjörn in Grindavík

28 September 2022

Study tour of Icelandic fisheries for Sierra Leonean high-level delegation

Last week GRÓ-FTP coordinated a study tour of Icelandic fisheries for a Sierra Leonean high-level delegation

18 August 2022

GRÓ-FTP scholarship recipient Alvin Slewion Jueseah to defend PhD

Thursday August 18th GRÓ-FTP scholarship recipient, Alvin Slewion Jueseah, will defend his PhD research Economic Analysis of the Coastal Fisheries of Liberia.

Former fellow Hardin Jn Pierre first Saint Lucian to be awarded JICA's SDGs Global Leadership Scholarship.

25 November 2021

Former fellow building upon his work in Iceland

Mr. Hardin Jn Pierre, a GRÓ-FTP fellow from 2019, has become the first Saint Lucian to be awarded a scholarship newly established by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).