20 December 2022
Season's Greetings from GRÓ LRT
GRÓ LRT sends you its best wishes for this festive season and wishes you a Happy New Year.
15 December 2022
New Restoration Ecology Master's programme at AUI
New MSc programme in Restoration Ecology will be launched at the Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI) in the fall of 2023. The programme is offered within the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences like the Postgraduate Diploma that successful fellows receive after attending GRÓ LRT six-month training programme.
22 November 2022
New book on building global sustainability with contributions from two GRÓ LRT fellows
Two former GRÓ LRT fellows write a chapter in the book Building global sustainability through local self-reliance: Lessons from landcare, which was published in August.
17 November 2022
GRÓ LRT at the Central Asian Rangelands Conference
GRÓ LRT was well represented at the international conference Central Asian Rangelands: Global Challenges and Global Opportunities, which was held 15-16 November 2022 at Samarkand State University in Uzbekistan.
3 November 2022
PhD defence by Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh
On November 10th Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh will defend her PhD dissertation in the field of environmental sciences at the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences of the Agricultural University of Iceland. Her thesis is titled Patterns and drivers of rangeland degradation in Mongolia.
12 October 2022
GRÓ LRT visit to partners in Uganda and Malawi
Halldóra Traustadóttir, Operations Manager of GRÓ LRT, travelled to Uganda and Malawi, at the end of September and beginning of October, to visit GRÓ LRT’s partner institutions in the two countries. The purpose of the visits was to meet the directors of partner institutions and interview potential candidates for GRÓ LRT Fellowship to attend the annual six-month training in Iceland.