29 August 2016
UNU-GEST and Birzeit University offer scholarships
UNU-GEST and the External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University invite students enrolled in MA/MSc programmes at Birzeit University to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships in the 2017 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland.
28 August 2016
UNU-GTP Fellows run the Reykjavík marathon
Each year the UNU-GTP Fellows are quite active in the various activities i.e. swimming, hiking, camping, running, football among other things.
25 August 2016
UNU-GTP Fellows thinking of the environment
Zoltan Békés, a UNU Fellow from Hungary, collected cooking oil from his kitchen in his residential apartment in Reykjavík since his arrival for the Six Month Training in April this year.
19 August 2016
Directory of former fellows
UNU-GEST has published a directory of former fellows on its website. This allows alumni members and other interested to search the directory by country, specialization and the year of graduation.
18 August 2016
Fellows on field excursion
During the six-month training in Iceland, the UNU-LRT fellows go on two different field excursions. Last week the fellows undertook their second field excursion, this time to the West and North Iceland. The focus was on land degradation in Iceland, implementation of restoration work, restoration vs. reclamation and an introduction to Icelandic cultural background through stories and historical sites.
16 August 2016
2011 fellow Ester Sumbana joins Plan International Mozambique
The UNU-GEST team congratulates the former 2011 fellow, Ester Maceda Sumbana, on her recent position as the Gender Coordinator and Advisor of the Plan International Mozambique. Plan International Mozambique is an organization working in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas.