GRÓ GEST calls for nominations for the 2024 GEST postgraduate diploma programme. Deadline for nominations is 8 March 2023. For further information:

The GEST fellows had the opportunity this week to visit Konukot, an overnight shelter for homeless women in Reykjavík, where they also learned about @rotin_felag holistic approach to the issues of problematic substance use. 👉👉

Excited to share that the GEST programme is now open for nominations for the 2023 academic programme. Deadline is 14 March 2022. See further information here #genderequality #grocentre 👉 https://t.co/efEudzcVxa

GRÓ GEST welcomed its 14th GEST cohort in Iceland this week. It is amazing to experience the dedication of the 23 fellows who traveled to Iceland midst of a pandemic to join the GEST programme. #GRÓcentre #genderequality #iceland

Exciting news from our good colleagues ‘down under’!

Session two on “Hybrid peace #mediation during emergencies and restrictions of travel”. What are the lessions from the COVID-19 pandemic so far? 😷🇮🇸🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴 @FloMandelik represents NWM-Norway in this discussion and shares experiences from hybrid mediation at @NOREFno. 🗣👩‍💻

GEST alumni publishes research on the gendered impact of COVID-19:

Among the speakers at tomorrow´s Imagine Forum are Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Gulalai Ismail, and Fawzia Koofi. The conference takes place in Veröld - the house of Vigdís and will also be streamed. Press here to connect: https://t.co/xq5l4S4UIw

Very happy to collaborate with @H_PeaceCentre on this year's Imagine Forum, Building Trust for Sustainable Peace this Friday @uni_iceland learn more 👉

Chimamanda Ngozi Adicie's lecture today has been moved to Háskólabíó / University Cinema. The house opens at 13.00! https://t.co/kJnN7sdc17

In August the GEST team welcomed its 2021 cohort to Iceland. It consists of twenty-one fellows from 15 countries. This year, for the first time, fellows from China, Egypt, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, and Nepal are joining the program. See:

The newly arrived 2021 GEST cohort is attending the Reykjavík Dialogue on gender-based violence (see: https://t.co/Je96Fcq6ZY). After giving her opening address, the Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, met yesterday with the fellows at the Harpa conference centre.

GEST has joined forces with Center for Women's Studies, Belgrade and six other partner organisations in conceptualizing and recording 35 podcasts on pressing feminist and gendered issues. More here:

At today's RIKK/GEST Online Conversation, Karen Boyle and Audrey Roofeh will discuss accountability and leadership in planning a feminist future #MeToo #Feminism @aroofeh @ProfKarenBoyle @GitiChandra @RIKK_HI

Happy International Women’s Day! We recorded a special episode on our podcast this occasion, where we spoke spoke about GEST alumni and called Chinenye Anekwe in Nigeria, who received the first project grant from the GEST Alumni Fund in 2020.

Today on the GEST Podcast: Islah Jad talks about the women's movement in Palestine against the backdrop of a historical and political landscape marked by tensions, contradictions and an ongoing Israeli occupation.

In this third installment of our Erasmus+ series we speak to Linda Gusia about the women's movement in Kosovo during the 1990s. She reminds us of the importance of feminist solidarity and of remembering the past without romanticizing it. https://t.co/jOPUUEheXl

The GEST programme has now opened a call for nominations for the postgraduate diploma programme in 2022. Deadline for nominations is 1 March 2021. For further information:

Did you miss our virtual launch of The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement? The recording of the event is live. Please share and enjoy!