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The evaluation of the applications received from former Fellows for GTP Fellowships for MSc and PhD studies in Iceland has now been carried out. There were 15 valid applications for MSc studies and 4 for the PhD studies, which shows good interest for geothermal studies in Iceland.

Next week, an email with information on the amount of individual Fellowships will be sent to those Fellows who applied for the WGC2020 Fellowship and were deemed eligible.

SDG Short Course IV on Geothermal Exploration and Development was held in Kenya during November 13 – December 3.

Preliminary information update regarding the Fellowships for WGC2020!

At the end of 2019, Lúdvík Georgsson will step down as Director of UNU-GTP as he will have reached the Government retirement age limit of 70 years. Lúdvík has been the Director since Ingvar Fridleifsson retired in 2013. Before that Lúdvík was the Deputy Director since 1990. His years as a staff member therefore covers 30 years although he was involved in teaching and supervising Fellows since its establishment in 1979.

On Friday the 13th of December Charles Muturia Lichoro will defend his PhD thesis in Geophysics from the University of Iceland in the Main building, room The Aula from 13:00-15:00.