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
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.
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.
16 June 2017
Visit from the University of Leeds
Recently, UNU-LRT welcomed Dr Lindsay Stringer and Dr Claire Quinn from the University of Leeds in the UK. Dr Stringer gave a lecture at UNU-LRT on the economics of land degradation and sustainable land management. In her talk she introduced the ELD 6+1 step methodology and shared results from a cost-benefit study of sustainable land management uptake for individual farmers in Kenya. Her talk spurred lively discussions facilitated by both Dr Stringer and Dr Quinn.