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The CD with papers and presentations from "Short Course III on Exploration for Geothermal resources" organized by UNU-GTP and KenGen in Naivasha, Kenya, 24 October - 17 Novemer 2008, is finally ready and will be mailed out to participants in the Short Course during this week. Other parties interested in a copy of the CD should send a request by e-mail to unugtp@os.is

The 31st annual session of the UNU-GTP opened on  April 21st, 2009. This year 21 UNU Fellows participate in the six month specialized courses. They come from Albania 1, Algeria 1, China 2, Costa Rica 1, Djibouti 2, El Salvador 1, Iran 1, Kenya 3, Mexico 1, Mongolia 1, Rwanda 2, Tanzania 1, Uganda 2, Yemen 1 and Zambia 1. They will be trained in: Geothermal Utilization 4, Chemistry of Thermal Fluids 4, Reservoir Engineering 6, Geological Exploration 2, Geophysical Exploration 4, and Drilling Engineering 1. In addition there is one short term Fellow from Nicaragua participating in the programme for 3 months in the specialized course Reservoir Engineering.

On Wednesday Mach 4, 2009, the President of Iceland, His Excellency Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, was on an official visit to the National Energy Authority, where he addressed the importance of renewable energy resources in the global battle on climate change.

The CD with papers and presentations from "Short Course III on Exploration for Geothermal resources" organized by UNU-GTP and KenGen in Naivasha, Kenya, 24 October - 17 Novemer 2008, is finally ready and will be mailed out to participants in the Short Course during this week. Other parties interested in a copy of the CD should send a request by e-mail to unugtp@os.is

MSc theses by UNU-GTP/UI graduates of 2008, Daher Elmi Houssein, Jaime Jemuel C. Austria, Jr., Sun Caixia, Saeid Jalili Nasrabadi, Clety Kwambai Bore, and Mahnaz Rezvani Khalilabad are now available for download.

A short course on “Geothermal Project Management and Development” was held on November 20-22 at Entebbe, Uganda. This three day event was co-organized by the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme (UNU-GTP), Kenya Electricity Generating Company, Ltd. (KenGen) and Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development  (DGSM) in Uganda.