5 April 2009
New Project Manager of the LRT
Dr. Hafdís Hanna Aegisdóttir became the new Project
Manager of the LRT programme on April the 1st 2009. She has been the Assistant Project Manager since April 2008 but will now replace Dr.
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, who has been the Project Manager from the beginning of the programme. Ingibjörg S.
Jónsdóttir is now a professor in ecology at the University of Iceland.
You can read more about the academic background and work experience of Hafdis Hanna here.
10 March 2009
Visit from the President of Iceland, His Excellency Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme
On Wednesday Mach 4, 2009, the President of Iceland, His Excellency Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, was on an official visit to the National Energy
Authority, where he addressed the importance of renewable energy resources in the global battle on climate change.
10 March 2009
The Kenya Short Course CD, 2008, is ready
The CD with papers and presentations from "Short Course III on Exploration for Geothermal resources" organized by UNU-GTP and KenGen in Naivasha, Kenya, 24 October -
17 Novemer 2008, is finally ready and will be mailed out to participants in the Short Course during this week. Other parties interested in a copy of the CD should send a request by e-mail to
unugtp@os.is
16 February 2009
MSc theses 2008 available for download
MSc theses by UNU-GTP/UI graduates of 2008, Daher Elmi Houssein, Jaime Jemuel C. Austria, Jr., Sun Caixia, Saeid Jalili Nasrabadi, Clety Kwambai Bore, and Mahnaz
Rezvani Khalilabad are now available for download.
2 February 2009
Former LRT fellows spread the word: an article in the newspaper Namibian about restoration of degraded land
An article about restoration of degraded land was published in the newspaper Namibian on
January the 22nd. In the article, two LRT fellows of the 2008 programme state the problems of land degradation, climate change and loss of biodiversity in Namibia.
They talk about how the Land Restoration Training Programme, which builds on the Icelandic experience of landcare, taught them that the root causes of land degradation are very related around the
world although environmental problems can be very different from one place to another. They also talk about the importance of involving local people in
restoration and landcare work and to use bottom-up approach to improve success rate of projects. You can read the whole article here.
Taimi Sofia Kapalanga and Emily Mutota from Namibia, with Bolormaa Baatar
from Mongolia in the middle, in the field in Iceland
9 December 2008
Short Course on geothermal project management in Uganda 2008
A short course on “Geothermal Project Management and Development” was held on November 20-22 at Entebbe, Uganda. This three day event was
co-organized by the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP), Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Ltd. (KenGen) and Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (DGSM)
in Uganda.