10 May 2018
Home country seminar of the UNU-GTP Fellows
On Friday 11th May, the Fellows participating in the Six Month Training Programme will make a short presentation on geothermal development and utilisation in their home countries.
9 May 2018
New paper on sheep grazing and land degradation of Icelandic ecosystems
A new paper on sheep grazing and Icelandic ecosystems has been recently published in the journal Land Degradation & Development. The paper “The sheep in wolf’s clothing? Recognizing threats for land degradation in Iceland using state‐and‐transition models” is led by Isabel C Barrio, project manager at UNU-LRT and co-authored by several UNU-LRT lecturers.
3 May 2018
Final Lecture in spring lecture series on anti-gender movements as challenges to human rights
Andrea Pető, Professor at Central European University, Budapest, is the 8th and last lecturer in the RIKK & UNU-GEST 2018 spring term lecture series.
3 May 2018
MSc defence by Samuel Ng‘ang‘a
Samuel Ikinya Ng‘ang‘a, MSc Fellow in drilling technology at Reykjavík University will give a presentation on his MSc project on Friday 4 May, 2018 at 08:00 at Reykjavík University, room M116.
2 May 2018
UNU-GEST fellows continue teaching Icelandic youth about gender inequality in their home countries
Three fellows from the UNU-GEST Diploma Programme visited the upper seconday school Fjölbrautaskólinn við Ármúla on April 27. The students, aged 16 -19, listened carefully to their talk about gender issues in their home countries
1 May 2018
UNU-GEST fellows on Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
For the first time UNU-GEST fellows were presented on the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service – Ríkisútvarpið, or RÚV for short, in a popular TV programme called Landinn