8 April 2014
Visit from Ethiopian ambassador
UNU-LRT was honoured to welcome a distinguished guest last week when the ambassador of Ethiopia to the Nordic countries, Ms Woinshet Tadesse, paid a visit to the programme. The ambassador and Mr Daneal Tenkir Arga, Counsellor II at the Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia based in Stockholm, were introduced to the activities and facilities of UNU-LRT. Furthermore, a continued fruitful collaboration between UNU-LRT and local Ethiopian institutions, working on land restoration and sustainable land management, was discussed and recommended.
3 April 2014
Short Course VI on Utilization of Low- and Medium-Enthalpy Geothermal Resourses and Financial Aspects of Utilization
The annual short course in El Salvador held in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals was held on 23-29 March. The topic of the course was “Utilization of Low- and Medium-Enthalpy Geothermal Resources and Financial Aspects of Utilization”.
31 March 2014
UNU-LRT programme 2014 has started
About three weeks ago, the annual UNU-LRT six-month training programme started with 12 fellows, seven men and five women. The fellows this year come from six different countries in Central-Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The countries are: Ethiopia (2 fellows), Ghana (3), Mongolia (2), Niger (2), Uganda (2) and Uzbekistan (1).
25 March 2014
A Malaysian delegation visits UNU-FTP
A delegation from the Malaysian Fisheries Development Authorities and the private sector in Malaysia visited Iceland and the UNU-FTP on March 23-28.
25 March 2014
Congratulations to the 2013/14 UNU-FTP Fellows!
On the 24th of March, 22 UNU-FTP fellows graduated from the six-month training in Iceland. After six intense months of rigorous, hard work in the cool dark north, all the fellows completed the training and presented their final projects with success.
6 March 2014
Keynote from UNU-LRT at a panel discussion on land degradation in New York
The Programme Director of UNU-LRT, Dr Hafdis Hanna Aegisdottir, was the key-note speaker at a panel discussion organized by the Permanent Mission of Iceland and the Group of Friends on Decertification, Land Degradation and Drought, in partnership with UNCCD, FAO and IAEA, in New York on 28 February.