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Dr Bryndís Marteinsdóttir and training participants
20 December 2024

Short Course in Sierra Leone on Community-Based Forest Landscape Restoration for Environmental Sustainability

In November, GRÓ LRT, in collaboration with the Icelandic Red Cross, organized a two-day training session on community-based forest landscape restoration in Bo in Sierra Leone. The training was held on 19-20 of November and was attended by 20 staff members and volunteers from the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society.
20 December 2024

Season's Greetings from GRÓ

GRÓ – International Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change under the auspices of UNESCO sends warm wishes for a joyous holiday season and happy new year!
19 December 2024

The balancing act

How Suðurnesjamenn, “The Southerners”, harness their inhospitable land and sea, seeking a balance between dare and awe, to provide for themselves and build up prosperous operations, is an inspiring story that our fellows set out to explore in a field trip Wednesday December 4th.
The GRÓ GEST Team 2018-2024, from left: Védís Ólafsdóttir, Guðrún Eysteinsdóttir, Irma Erlingsdóttir, Anna Guðrún Aradóttir, Giti Chandra, and Thomas Brorsen Smidt
9 December 2024

Evaluation Confirms Global Impact

Independent evaluation highlights GRÓ GEST’s role in advancing gender equality
3 December 2024

A fisheries microcosm

After settling in the programme and adjusting to winter conditions in Iceland, the newly arrived 2024-25 cohort of fellows spent their second week drawing up a general outline of the status of world fisheries and aquaculture.
Participants, teachers, and organisers of the training
25 November 2024

GRÓ GTP training in Shanxi Province, China

in cooperation with the China University of Geosciences – Wuhan and Shanxi Provincial Geological Prospecting Bureau