The West Iceland Healthcare Institution has received a grant from the memorial fund of Bergþóra Magnúsdóttir and Jakob Bjarnason. The memorial fund is managed by the Directorate of Health and grants are granted from it to projects intended to improve the quality and safety of healthcare.

The Icelandic Transport Authority will host an examiner standardisation courses for flight examiners on the 16th of October 2025 in Flugröst.

The Reykholt inventory has been inscribed on the national Memory of the World register. The inventory will be discussed in particular on UNESCO Day, to be held on Thursday, 7 May, at Edda.

A comprehensive and ambitious international conference took place in Harpa from 19th to 23rd of May. The conference, called the International Fisheries Observer and Monitoring Conference (IFOMC), is the only conference in the world dedicated to maritime surveillance.

Today, the Supreme Court ruled in a case where the defendant’s conduct of knowing her ex-girlfriend in her home, pushing her down a staircase, grabbing her hair, hitting her in the head and taking her to the throat with further specified consequences was considered an offence in a close relationship and not a minor assault, as was done in the Landsréttur judgment.

Relocation is currently underway for part of the day and outpatient services of the psychiatric department at the Hospital in Akureyri (SAk) to new premises at Hafnarstræti 97, 6th floor.

A contract for the supply of the archives of STEF, the Icelandic Interest Group of Composers and Songwriters, has been signed recently.

Continuing to be satisfied

Land and Forest Iceland has now opened for applications to the Land Reform Fund. The application deadline is 1 February.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued guidelines on the transfer of personal data to authorities in third countries pursuant to Article 48 of the GDPR.