News

6 July 2017

Birzeit University in Palestine and UNU-GEST offer joint fellowships

External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University and UNU-GEST invite master's students to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships to attend the 2018 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The programme will run from January 8 to May 24, 2018 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
UNU-GEST June Newsletter is out!
28 June 2017

UNU-GEST June newsletter has been published

Our June 2017 newsletter is full of news from our work over the last six months: 2017 graduation; activities of the graduates; snapshots from social media; our spring term lecture series; research on peacekeeping, small scale fisheries in Tanzania and on women in the geothermal sector; blog series; and alumni activities. Read more about it
FarFish team in Vigo, Spain
22 June 2017

Kick Off meeting with UNU-FTP and partners in FarFish, EU Horizon 2020 project

UNU-FTP is partnering in an EU Horizon 2020 project, FarFish, relating to improving the sustainability of EU fishing outside European waters. Within the project, the UNU-FTP is leading work related to capacity development and dissemination. The project launched last week with a Kick-Off meeting hosted by one of the project partners, CETMAR in Vigo, Spain.
20 June 2017

MSc defence by Gift Tsokonombwe

Gift Wellington Tsokonombwe, MSc Fellow in geology at the University of Iceland will give a presentation on his MSc project on Friday 23 June, 2017 at 11:00 at University of Iceland, Askja building, room N-130.
Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir and Pétur Waldorff received two grants on 19th June
19 June 2017

UNU-GEST receives two grants from Icelandic Gender Equality Fund

On 19th June, a day is dedicated to women´s rights in Iceland, the Minister of Gender awarded grants from the Icelandic Gender Equality Fund. UNU-GEST received two grants, for the research-based project Gender Focused Value Chain Development of Aquaculture in Gaza Province, Mozambique, and for a short course to be held in Uganda on Gender and Climate Change. Dr. Pétur Waldorff and Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir attended the ceremony as grant recipients.