| O.M.A.H.A.I | Non-governmental organization | Education | Human Rights | Mission: O.M.A.H.A.I is specialized in providing sustainable programs of growth to sustain dialectical process for individuals to progress. O.M.A.H.A.I is in the front line of designing and launching sustainable innovative need-based building capacity advanced educational programs. The education of Women and Children stands in the very heart and soul of this firm foundation. Education lies in the heart of our world’s collective efforts to constitute a firm foundation for a united humanity. Vision: Empowering the Marginalized, to enlist the constructive potential of individuals who have traditionally been excluded, through designing and launching sustainable programs of growth that address the individual need to progress intellectually, materialistically, physically and spiritually to release the capacities of individuals and collective communities towards contributing to the emergence of building a united world.
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| Oxygen Group | Private company | Environment / Climate | Sustainable solutions | Oxygen Group offers a comprehensive service in the carbon offsets market and creates sustainable and value-adding solutions in every industry. |
| ReSource International | Private company | Energy | Circular Economy | ReSource Group invents and delivers appropriate engineering solutions to complex environmental problems. We work in operations, consulting, design, monitoring and R&D in a diverse portfolio of projects related to the circular economy, management of waste and water, pollution and electricity generation. Our projects span much of Western and Northern Europe and we have bases in Iceland, Scandinavia and Switzerland.
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| RetinaRisk | Private company | Innovation | Health | The clinically validated RetinaRisk app empowers people living with diabetes to better understand their risk of sight-threatening diabetic eye disease and the RetinaRisk API solution serves doctors as a decision support tool for better and more personalized dibabetes care. RetinaRisk can streamline and make diabetic eye screening more efficient and cost effective, potentially leading to savings of 40-60% in healthcare cost.
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| Reykjavik Geothermal | Private company | Energy | Sustainable solutions | Reykjavik Geothermal is a geothermal exploration and developmental company. The nature of RG business and expertise spans the whole value chain; including resource exploration and reservoir assessment, environmental and social sustainability, exploration drilling, design and development, production drilling, construction and operations of geothermal power plants.
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| Sesseljuhús Environmental Center | Self-owned organization | Education | Sustainable solutions | Sesseljuhús Environmental Center was built in 2002 to honor Sesselja' s work and to support the environmental sector of Iceland. Throughout the years there have been exhibitions and educational displays for the public, e.g. affects of climate change and how to create a sustainable household. |
| South Iceland Nature Research Centre | Research Institute/University | Environment / Climate | Seabird Research | SINRC studies seabirds with a focus on Atlantic Puffins around Iceland, and Manx Shearwater, European and Leach´s Storm-Petrels in the Westman Islands.
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| The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies - Department for Lexical Studies & Lexicography | Research Institute/University | Research | Dictionaries | The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies is an independently funded academic research institute at the University of Iceland, operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Its role is to conduct research in the field of Icelandic studies and related scholarly disciplines, in particular Icelandic language and literature, disseminate knowledge in these fields and preserve and augment the collections entrusted to its care.
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| The Association on Women’s Menopause | Non-governmental organization | Gender Equality | Empowering Women | The Association on Women‘s Menopause was founded in 2013 by Icelandic women interested in social, psychological, cultural and physical changes on women during menopause. We have a very active facebook group where over five thousand women share articles, opinions and thoughts about this period of change in their lives. We have celebrated conferences on the subject, made videos and a homepage.
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| The Icelandic Human Rights Centre (ICEHR) | Non-governmental organization | Human rights | Gender Based Violence | The ICEHR provides education programmes to enhance understanding of concepts such as gender-based violence and violence against women and girls (VAWG). These programmes include lectures, case-studies, monitoring, strategy building, situation testing etc
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| The Metropolitan Police in Reykjavik | State agency | Gender Equality | Gender Based Violence | The Metropolitan Police in Reykjavík has sysematically changed its approach and handling of Domestic Violence cases. We have also changed our approach towards teenages who run away from home, with good results.
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| The National Film Archive of Iceland | State agency | Research | Digitisation | The National Film Archive of Iceland collects, preserves, restores and screens Icelandic motion pictures of all kinds and from all times.
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