Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir, Professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences has been accepted to the Club of Rome, that works on identifying the most crucial problems that will determine the future of humanity.
Jón Atli Benediktsson, Pro Rector of Academic Affairs at the University of Iceland, and Cao Yijia, Vice President of Hunan University, recently signed a partnership agreement between the two universities on student exchanges last November.
Scientists at the University of Iceland recently received an international award for the best science article in the International Journal of Image and Data Fusion for 2012-2013.
The book Images of the North. Histories – Identities – Ideas, recently received the annual silver awards of the Association for Borderlands Studies.
Diploma studies in Nurse Anaesthesia at the graduate level at the University of Iceland Faculty of Nursing received last October a certification of the International Federation of Nurse Anaesthetists, IFNA.
Kristín Ingólfsdóttir, Rector of the University of Iceland and Liu Jianping, Chairman of the University CPC Standing Committee, recently signed a partnership agreement enabling students at both universities to apply for exchange studies.
The City of Reykjavík and the University of Iceland signed a partnership agreement on Wednesday, 7 January, to prepare the foundation of a centre for peace.
Seminars and meetings for the Biophilia project and the Nordic Knowledge Train were held in Iceland in November attended by thirty participants from Nordic Educational and Science Institutes.
