9 September 2024
GRÓ‘s work presented to Nordic UNESCO family
The work of GRÓ – Centre for Capacity development, sustainability and societal change, and in particular the four GRÓ training programmes on fisheries, gender equality, geothermal energy and land restoration, was presented to the Nordic UNESCO family at their annual meeting that took place in Hveragerði, Iceland, in the beginning of September.
6 September 2024
Gistiaðstaða fyrir GRÓ - Forkönnun
GRÓ – Þekkingarmiðstöð þróunarsamvinnu leitar að gistiaðstöðu á höfuðborgarsvæðinu til langtímaleigu, fyrir 25–50 einstaklinga frá og með 1. september 2025 (eða eftir samkomulagi). Um er að ræða langtímaleigu til 3–5 ára, með möguleika á framlengingu.
31 August 2024
MSc defence by Agata Rostran Largaespada
on Monday 2nd of August at 14:00 at Reykjavík University
29 August 2024
Landgræðsluskóli GRÓ útskrifar 23 sérfræðinga frá Afríku og Asíu
Landgræðsluskóli GRÓ útskrifaði í gær 23 sérfræðinga á sviði sjálfbærrar landnýtingar og endurheimtar vistkerfa. Nemendurnir koma frá níu samstarfslöndum skólans í Afríku og Asíu. Um er að ræða fyrsta skiptið þar sem nemendur frá Kenía útskrifast úr skólanum en hinir nemendurnir eru frá Gana, Kirgistan, Lesótó, Malaví, Mongólíu, Nígeríu, Úganda og Úsbekistan.
29 August 2024
Congratulations to the GRÓ LRT fellows of 2024
The GRÓ Land Restoration Training Programme celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows from its six-month training on 27 August at the Keldnaholt campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland. This is the 17th graduating cohort of GRÓ LRT and the first time the programme has graduated fellows from Kenya, a new GRÓ LRT partner country. The cohort includes fellows from nine countries in Africa and Central Asia: Ghana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mongolia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, and Uganda.
22 August 2024
Gender and Climate Change Training in Chikwawa District, Malawi
Last week, from 12-16 August, the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) successfully completed a five-day training course on Gender and Climate Change (G&CC) in Chikwawa district, Malawi.