26 April 2011
33rd session of the UNU-GTP
The 33rd annual session of the UNU-GTP opened on Monday 2nd of May.
The Vice Rector of UNU, Prof. Takeuchi was an honourary guest at the opening. The opening ceremony was lead by the Director of the UNU-GTP, Dr. Ingvar B. Fridleifsson, and included a speech by the invited speaker, the Permanent Secretary of State, Dr. Einar
Gunnarsson. After the ceremony the UNU Vice Rector gave a presentation on the work of the United Nations University. This was followed by presentations about the UNU-GTP, the UNU Fisheries Training
Programme (UNU-FTP), and the UNU Land Restoration Training Programme (UNU-LRT).
14 April 2011
New group of UNU-LRT fellows
Fellows attending this
year’s six-month training programme have arrived. This is the second group of fellows attending the programme since it became a UNU training
programme. The fellows this year are eight and come from Ethiopia, Ghana, Niger, Mongolia and Uganda.
5 April 2011
Popularity of UNU-GTP publications
Statistics at the National Energy Authority - Orkustofnun (NEA) show that UNU-GTP reports account for 15 out of the 30 most visited sub pages (URLs) at NEA during the first days of April. The
most visited UNU-GTP report during this period (visited 426 times in 5 days) is an article on pipeline design written by José Luis Henríquez Miranda and Luis Alonso Aguirre López
for the Millennium Short Course held in El Salvador in the January 2011.
25 March 2011
Earth Hour 2011: It's time to go beyond the hour
At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit
to actions that go beyond the hour.
With Earth Hour almost upon us, our thoughts are with the people of Japan during this incredibly challenging and sad time for their country.
9 March 2011
Seminar by UNU-GTP MSc Fellows
Alejandro Rodriques from Costa Rica, Endy Kevin Padilla from El
Salvador, Andy Nugroho from Indonesia and Andemariam
Teklesenbet from Eritrea, all UNU-GTP MSc candidates who will defend their thesis at the University of Iceland this spring, presented their thesis project work in Vidgelmir in Orkugarður
this morning.
The presentations were well prepared and received questions and comments from an interested audience.
We wish the Fellows the best of luck with the final preparations.
8 March 2011
News from a 2007 LRT fellow from Mongolia
Bulgamaa Densambuu from Mongolia was in the first group of fellows
participating in the LRT programme in 2007. She is currently the head of the Research and Technology Department at the Mongolian Society for Range
Management (MSRM) and is starting her post doctoral program at the New Mexico University, NM, USA. Bulgamaa says that the LRT training was a great opportunity that gave her a better
understanding of the importance of capacity building in the field of land management in Mongolia.
Since attending the programme in Iceland, Bulgamaa has worked towards
integrating research and knowledge transfer to local people, directly applying experience and knowledge she accumulated during the LRT programme. She
coordinates several projects at the MSRM. One is the creation of a nationwide network of institutions with the aim to enhance flow of data and information
on rangeland health in order to improve decision-making at the policy level. Another project she oversees is how to transfer knowledge, gathered
from previous projects on rangeland rehabilitation, to herders and other rangeland-user
groups.