31 August 2017
Visit from the Sri Lankan ambassador
On August 25th, our program was visited by the Sri Lankan ambassador Mr. Jayantha Palipane. Mr. Thor Asgeirsson, the UNU-FTP deputy director, and staff members Ms. Mary Frances Davidson and Mr. Stefán Úlfarsson greeted him.
31 August 2017
UNU Visiting Lecturer 2017 - Dr Juliet Newson from New Zealand
The UNU Visiting Lecturer in 2017 is the geothermal reservoir modelling engineer Dr Juliet Newson.
29 August 2017
Ray Hilborn is UNU-FTP guest lecturer 2017
The world renowned marine biologist Ray Hilborn is UNU-FTP guest lecturer this year. He will be giving a series of four lectures at the program’s auditorium Skúlagata 4 this September. They are intended for the fellows of our six-month training programme, but, also, for the wider audience of fishery scientists in Iceland.
25 August 2017
Visit from the Iranian ambassador
On August 24th, our program was visited by the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mr. Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh.
22 August 2017
Two new employees
The Fisheries Training Program has recently added two new employees to its staff; Julie Ingham joined the program in May and Stefán Úlfarsson at the beginning of August.
21 August 2017
International guest lecturer at UNU-LRT
Dr Maryam Niamir-Fuller, an expert on international sustainable development, was the main international guest lecturer at the UNU-LRT six-month training programme this year. Dr Niamir-Fuller gave three interactive lectures on rangelands, livestock and land restoration. She focused on how to move towards sustainability in the extensive and intensive livestock sectors, proposing a conceptual framework model to transform the sectors.
Dr Niamir-Fuller was also the keynote speaker at an open meeting hosted by UNU-LRT at the National Museum of Iceland on 17 August. Her talk was entitled: Breaking silos: The design and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, where she focused on how different sectors can cooperate on achieving an integrated implementation of the SDG´s.