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The Watanabe Trust Fund at the University of Iceland calls for applications from students who wish to obtain scholarships for studies abroad in Iceland or Japan.

The University of Iceland is ranked between 126-150 in the field of life sciences and between 176-200 in the field of physical sciences on the new Times Higher Education University Rankings.

To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, a symposium – sponsored by the EDDA Research Center and the Institute of History at the University of Iceland (UI) in cooperation with the French and German Embassies in Reykjavik – will be held on 23 November 2018.

Andrúm studio has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, for their design of Veröld - House of Vigdís.

A research team at the University of Iceland School of Education has been awarded a grant of almost ISK 100 million from the European Union in order to develop an intervention programme to be used in compulsory schools.

The University of Iceland is among the 250 best universities in humanities according to a brand new list from Times Higher Education published 31 October.

The European research project Sound of Vision which aims to facilitate blind and visually impaired people to sense their environment, has been nominated for the Innovation Radar Prize 2018.

The University of Iceland is ranked between 251-300 in the field of Social Sciences on the Times Higher Education University Rankings published on 17 October.

Introduction on studies and staff training abroad, rendezvous with former exchange students, music, dance, and movies are on the agenda during International Days this week.

Scholars in the field of disability studies at the University of Iceland are among the participants in a European-wide training network for early stage researchers in the field of disability rights that has received €4.1m in funding.