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This Short Course is a three-week event, specially intended for a drilling crew. It started on February 20th and is scheduled to end on March 10.

The UNU-GTP is academically governed by a Studies Board, whose members are experts in their field and are responsible for each of the specialized study lines relating to their field. The start of 2017 has brought about the necessity of changes in our Studies Board. This includes the retirement of Mr. Sverrir Thórhallsson, who is probably our longest serving member of the Studies Board from the start. Furthermore, we will be losing Dr. Björn S. Hardarson, who is moving to Scotland in the spring, to be united with his wife, the painter Ishbel MacDonald.

The evaluation of the applications received from former UNU Fellows for UNU-GTP Fellowships for MSc and PhD studies in Iceland has now been carried out. There were 12 valid applications for MSc studies and 5 for the PhD studies, which shows good interest for geothermal studies in Iceland.

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The graduation ceremony of the Geothermal Diploma Course for Latin America was held in San Salvador on December 20th, 2016. The event marked the closing of the first edition of this academic programme carried out in cooperation between CEL/LaGeo, UNU-GTP and the University of El Salvador (UES), facilitated by the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs and funded by the Nordic Development Fund.

Lilian Aketch Okwiri, MSc Fellow in Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavik University, will give a lecture on her MSc project on Monday 19th December, 2016 at 09:00 at Reykjavik University, room V102.