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23 December 2025

Season's Greetings from GRÓ GEST

The GRÓ GEST programme sends its warmest holiday greetings and best wishes for a happy new year!
23 December 2025

Season’s Greetings from GRÓ

GRÓ — Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change extends warm season’s greetings to partners, fellows, alumni, and friends around the world, with best wishes for the year ahead.
22 December 2025

Office hours during the holiday season

In addition to the usual Saturday and Sunday weekends, GRÓ GEST‘s offices will close for the following public holidays in Iceland: • December 24 from 12 noon • December 25 • December 26 • December 31 from 12 noon • January 1
12 December 2025

GEST Alumni-Led Webinar

GEST Alumni Highlight Regional Responses to Digital Gender-Based Violence during the 16 Days of Activism
From left: Nína Björk Jónsdóttir, Director General of GRÓ; Dr. Manuel Barange, Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division at FAO; Ambassador Guðmundur Árnason, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the Rome-based organisations; and Sólrún Svandal, Senior Advisor on Ocean Affairs at the MFA.
11 December 2025

GRÓ explores cooperation with FAO, WFP and IFAD

The GRÓ Centre had various meetings in the first week of December to explore possible avenues of cooperation with the three Rome based UN Agencies: the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (the FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir utanríkisráðherra ásamt nemendum Jarðhitaskóla GRÓ, styrkþegum í meistara- og doktorsnámi og Bjarna Richter, forstöðumanni Jarðhitaskóla GRÓ. Mynd: HÍ/Kristinn Ingvarsson
28 November 2025

Áhrif nærri 50 ára starfs Jarðhitaskóla GRÓ: fjárfesting í fólki sem skilar árangri

Áhrif nærri 50 ára starfs íslenskra stjórnvalda til að efla og stuðla að þróun jarðhita víðs vegar um heiminn í gegnum Jarðhitaskóla GRÓ voru í brennidepli á fyrsta viðburði af fjórum um áhrif GRÓ skólanna. Viðburðurinn fór fram 5. nóvember 2025 í hátíðarsal Háskóla Íslands og er upptaka af honum aðgengileg á netinu.