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3 November 2022

PhD defence by Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh

On November 10th Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh will defend her PhD dissertation in the field of environmental sciences at the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences of the Agricultural University of Iceland. Her thesis is titled Patterns and drivers of rangeland degradation in Mongolia. 
Fellows, staff, and guests at the graduation
28 October 2022

Graduation of Fellows 2022

The 43rd session of the Geothermal Training Programme closed on Thursday 20th of October.
 GRÓ-FTP's 2022 cohort of fellows, standing outside the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute at Fornubúðir Hafnarfirði.
26 October 2022

Welcome 2022 cohort of fellows

Our 2022 cohort of fellows have all safely arrived in Iceland and are now in the process of settling in and starting the Six-month Training Programme.
26 October 2022

IDEAS Podcast goes live!

The first of seven modules of the IDEAS podcast is now available on most major platforms.
21 October 2022

Tuttugu og þrír sérfræðingar útskrifast frá Jarðhitaskóla GRÓ

Tuttugu og þrír sérfræðingar frá tólf löndum útskrifuðust frá Jarðhitaskóla GRÓ í gær. Hópurinn hefur dvalið á Íslandi við nám síðustu sex mánuði og er sá 43. sem lýkur námi við skólann. Alls hafa nú 766 nemendur frá 65 löndum lokið námi frá Jarðhitaskólanum. Þá hafa 79 lokið meistaranámi og fimm doktorsnámi við íslenska háskóla með stuðningi frá skólanum. Einnig hefur Jarðhitaskólinn haldið fjöldamörg styttri námskeið á vettvangi sem og á netinu.
GRÓ-FTP team from the left, Stefán Úlfarsson, Warsha Sing, Agnes Eydal, Julie Ingham and Zaw Myo Win. Pictured outside the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute with the town of Hafnarfjörður in the background.
14 October 2022

GRÓ-FTP team ready to welcome 24th cohort of fellows

A new group of fellows will soon arrive in Iceland to participate in the six-month Fisheries Training Programme which will run from 24th October 2022 to 27th April 2023.