19 October 2015
Release of Geothermal Training in Iceland 2014
The UNU-GTP yearbook "Geothermal Training in Iceland 2014" has now been published on print and released online and is now available for download under publications.
12 October 2015
Welcome UNU-FTP fellows 2015
This fall, the United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme welcomed its 18th cohort to Iceland for the six month training programme.
10 October 2015
UNU Fellows introduce their final projects
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014, the UNU Fellows of the Six Month Training Programme will introduce their final projects.
30 September 2015
Annual Visiting Lecturer at the UNU-GTP 2015
The UNU Visiting Lecturer in 2015 is the Ethiopian geologist and geothermal specialist Dr. Meseret Teklemariam Zemedkun.
28 September 2015
The Global Goals for Sustainable Development
A set of 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development were formally adopted at a special UN summit in New York on 25-27 September. The goals raise great expectations and set the stage for the next 15 years. Their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focused mainly on the human aspects of development. The Global Goals go beyond this by integrating the role of ecosystems in sustaining human well-being. This is a major step forward, in that the new goals seek to ensure a better balance between economic growth and environmental protection.
18 September 2015
Graduation at UNU-LRT
On Thursday 17 September thirteen fellows graduated from the UNU-LRT six-month training programme; seven women and six men. The graduates come from Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Namibia, and Uganda in Sub-Saharan Africa, and from Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in Central Asia. At the graduation ceremony the UNU-LRT Director, Dr Hafdis Hanna Aegisdottir, the Permanent Secretary of State, Mr Stefan Haukur Johannesson, and the Chair of the UNU-LRT Board, Mr Sveinn Runolfsson, addressed the fellows and guest. Addresses were also given by two graduating fellows, Ms Uuganzaya Myagmarjav from Mongolia and Mr Emmanuel Chidiwa Mbewe from Malawi, who spoke on behalf of the 2015 cohort of fellows.