The University of Iceland’s Faculty of Nursing hosted an international seminar on leadership in nursing and healthcare on 17 – 20 May.
The United Nations University Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (UNU-GEST) celebrated the graduation of 15 fellows with a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies.
PhD studies at the School of Health Sciences have been awarded an international quality assurance from the European organisation ORPHEUS (Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System).
EDDA Research Center will be hosting an international conference entitled Future of Democracy on May 20–21 at the lecture hall of the National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafn).
Last year the Faculty of Political Science signed a collaborative contract with the University of Bratislava in Slovakia.
The international conference Inclusive Peace: Women, Peace and Security Post 2015 was held at the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík on 14– 15 April 2016.
A group of scientists led by Sigurður Yngvi Kristinsson recently received a major grant to identify and treat precursor of blood cancer before disease develops.
The first joint doctoral defence between Sorbonne University (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) and the University of Iceland took place on 9 April in Paris when Rósa Elín Davíðsdóttir defended her thesis in Linguistics.
The University of Iceland ranks in 222 place over the best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, not around the 270th.
Team Spark, a group of students from the University of Iceland’s Faculties of Engineering unveiled their race car TS16 yesterday, 7 April at the University Centre.