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The annual short course in El Salvador held in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals is currently under way. This time the short course is devoted to surface exploration for geothermal resources and is primarily targeted towards practicing geoscientists in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Stephen Odhiambo Onyango, M.Sc. Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iceland will give a lecture on his MSc project on Friday 20 February, 2014 at 13:00 at Orkusgarður, Grensásvegur 9, in Víðgelmir.

The UNU-GTP is currently conducting a Short Course on Geothermal Project Management in Ethiopia for selected employees of the Geological Survey of Ethiopia (GSE), Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MWIE).

The evaluation of the applications received from former UNU Fellows for UNU-GTP Fellowships for MSc and PhD studies in Iceland has now been done. There were 20 valid applications for MSc studies and 6 for the PhD studies, which shows the great interest for geothermal studies in Iceland.

The World Geothermal Congress (WGC2015) will be held 19-25 April, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. This Congress has been held every 5 years since 1995 and as for the last three World Geothermal Congresses, the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme is supporting a number of former UNU-GTP Fellows in attending the Congress in Melbourne.

The UNU-GTP is currently conducting a Short Course on Preparations of Bankable Geothermal Documents in Ethiopia for selected employees of the Geological Survey of Ethiopia (GSE), Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MWIE).