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1 September 2022

GRÓ opens the doors to a new GRÓ House on Grensásvegur

GRÓ - International Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainability and Societal Change has secured the long-term rental of accommodation at Grensásvegur 14 to house fellows, guest lecturers and scholarship recipients from the four GRÓ Programmes. The first group of fellows, hailing from the Geothermal Training Programme, will move in on the 5th of September.
1 September 2022

Sustainable Development Goals Partnership Fund open for applications

The Sustainable Development Goals Partnership Fund of the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs is open for applications until 3 October, 2022.
GTP fellows on a site visit to the eruption site
29 August 2022

PhD fellows measure gas emission from the Reykjanes eruption

On 3rd of August an eruption started on the same site as last year.
23 August 2022

New FREE online course

You can now enroll in 'Gender, Violence and Post-Conflict States' on edX
18 August 2022

GRÓ-FTP scholarship recipient Alvin Slewion Jueseah to defend PhD

Thursday August 18th GRÓ-FTP scholarship recipient, Alvin Slewion Jueseah, will defend his PhD research Economic Analysis of the Coastal Fisheries of Liberia.
The fellows in Framengjar wetlands with their guide, Þorlákur P. Jónsson from SCSI.
17 August 2022

GRÓ LRT fellows on field excursion to North Iceland

Last week, the GRÓ LRT fellows went on a four-day excursion to Northern Iceland where they visited restoration sites and learned about how land conditions have been improved with innovative approaches by individuals, NGOs, as well as national agencies such as the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland.