At a meeting yesterday, the University Council of the University of Iceland approved changes to the university’s fees, including higher registration fees for the academic year 2026-2027, from 75,000 ISK to 100,000 ISK. The increase takes effect immediately.
The Aðalsteinn Kristjánsson Memorial Fund to advance the natural sciences at the University of Iceland is now accepting grant applications. The purpose of the Fund is to provide grants to students and/or academics at the University of Iceland for research in natural sciences.
Human rights backlash, the interplay between artificial intelligence and gender equality and freedom of gender, the inclusion of neurodivergent students and students of diverse origins in universities are among the topics during the annual Equality Days taking place from 9 to 12 February in Icelandic universities.
The past semester was marked by vibrant participation of staff and students at the University of Iceland in the European university network Aurora.
Sprettur, an innovation programme for the inclusion and integration of immigrants into higher education at the University of Iceland, has received two grants to support initiatives that enhance participation, Icelandic language skills, and networking opportunities for students with an international background.
The research project Crisis Management and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Leadership, Expertise and Best Practices is coming to an end after three years under the leadership of Baldur Thorhallsson, professor at the University of Iceland and Ásthildur Elva Bernharðsdóttir, professor at the University of Bifröst.
An Icelandic language technology project led by the University of Iceland in collaboration with Almannarómur (the Icelandic Centre for Language Technology) is one of eleven European projects to receive a Microsoft AI for Good LINGUA grant, awarded on 20 January this year.
“We need to show more resolve in protecting liberal democracy, in particular as regards the importance of a functioning public sphere—a shared communicative space where people have access to reliable information and can argue with one another in a civil manner.”
Despite incidences of invasive pneumococcal infections having subsided considerably since vaccinations were introduced in 2011, mortality rates for patients who get these types of infections haven’t changed over the decades.
Örnólfur Thorlacius, assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology is leading a research project on the development of computerised adaptive testing (CAT) for assessing emotion regulation and social skills in children and adolescents.
