11 January 2010
Dr. Otwell the visiting lecturer for UNU-FTP
Dr. W. Steven Otwell from the University of Florida, Gainesville, will be the guest lecturer this year at the UNU-FTP.
21 December 2009
Ambassador Su Ge of China visits UNU-GTP
Ambassador Su Ge of China visited UNU-GTP on December 18 2009. The ambassador was interested to learn more about the strong relationship between the UNU-GTP and the
geothermal community in China. The number of Chinese Fellows who have received training from the beginning of the programme is 72 and they are by far the most numerous of the Fellows.
17 December 2009
Best wishes for a festive season and a happy new year
Dear fellows and friends of LRT. The LRT team wishes you all the best for the festive season and a happy new year. We thank you for your enthusiasms and commitment to work towards our common goal in
restoring degraded land and working towards sustainable land management. Keep up the good work!
Please read the LRT season's greetings here.
16 December 2009
Visit from the Gender Equality Training Programme
LRT was visited on December 11th by two fellows of the Gender Equality Training (GET) Programme and its Project Manager, Dr. Annadís Gréta
Rúdólfsdóttir. The fellows of the GET programme are Latifa Hamidi and Hafiz Noori, both from Afghanistan. The LRT is very pleased
with being able to share its experience with the GET programme and to meet with their first fellows.
10 December 2009
LRT Workshop
A workshop to review and enhance the curriculum of the Land Restoration Training Programme was held at the Agricultural University of Iceland on
December 4th and 5th. Around 25 people attended the workshop and shared their experiences of the LRT programme and participated in
fruitful discussions on how to enhance the current programme. Many good ideas germinated during the workshop and will be developed further and built into
the programme. Ingrid Gevers from Wageningen International in the Netherlands facilitated the workshop and assisted with curriculum
development.
8 December 2009
Dr. Wang Tao, the first UNU fellow to finish PhD studies in Iceland
Today, December 8 , Mrs. Wang Tao from China and a UNU Fellow in 2005 defended successfully her
PhD dissertation in Food Science from the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Health Sciences,
University of Iceland.