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17.12.21

Pre-Accelerator programme Cohort 4!
15.12.21

The Kraumur Music Awards 2021 recipients!
13.12.21

The Second Sweet Salone Container Shipment from Freetown
10.12.21

Partnership with Skool grind SL
01.12.21

Kraumur Music Awards shortlist 2021 announced
22.11.21

Christmas Market with Sweet Salone products in Freetown and Reykjavík
17.11.21

New collaboration with The Green Giraffe!
15.11.21

Cohort 3 of the Pre-Accelerator Programme has graduated!
15.11.21

Global Entrepreneurship Week Sierra Leone
10.11.21

Formalising the collaboration with Innovation SL
03.11.21

SLADEA & Aurora sign five-year agreement to continue support for Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre
01.11.21

Another ICT course has come to an end
28.10.21

A session with The Betts Firm on taxes and regulations
11.10.21

Finance session for the Cohorts
30.09.21

Changes in Aurora’s team
30.09.21

On the lookout for new start-ups!
27.09.21

Cohort updates!
15.09.21

Continued support of the Icelandic MFA towards a stronger Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre
06.09.21

New Live Music Series Celebrating The Kraumur Music Awards
30.08.21

Aurora Board Meets in person finally!
08.07.21

Collaboration with Save the Children Iceland
05.07.21

Byte Limited and Aurora Foundation sign MOU
30.06.21

The first graduates of our new Web Development Course
09.06.21

Another Ideation Programme wrapped up
07.06.21

Sweet Salone pop-up market
21.05.21

Impact assessment for Sweet Salone project
30.04.21

Cohort 3 has started!
29.04.21

Aurora donates t-shirts to children in Susan’s Bay
16.04.21

Another Ideation Programme!
08.04.21

The final hospital beds donated to Allen Town Community Hospital
31.03.21

Busy weeks at the Lettie Stuart Pottery Center
22.03.21

The hospital beds donation continues
19.03.21

Graduation of Cohort 2
15.03.21

Aurora donates 4 hospital beds to Brama Community Hospital
10.03.21

More activities during the Pre-Accelerator Programme
09.03.21

Aurora donates 28 hospital beds to PCMH
04.03.21

Update Cohort 2!
01.03.21

The first Ideation Programme!
23.02.21

The students at the Lettie Stuart Pottery graduated!
20.02.21

The First Sweet Salone Container shipment
15.02.21

Update GGEM
01.02.21

Applications for Cohort 3 are open!
29.01.21

Donation to Ola During Children’s Hospital
25.01.21

There is never a dull moment at the Lettie Stuart Pottery!
22.01.21

Uman Tok is thriving!
31.12.20

2020 in a nutshell!
28.12.20

New programs at Aurora Impact in 2021!
16.12.20

Update Cohort 2
14.12.20

Congratulations winners of Kraumur Music Awards 2020!
30.11.20

The list for Kraumur Music Awards 2020 has been published
23.11.20

New agreement between SLADEA and Aurora signed
21.11.20

Get-ready-for-Christmas-market
13.11.20

Cohort 2!
13.11.20

Article on the Lettie Stuart Pottery and Sweet Salone
27.10.20

The debut of the three-part documentary about Osusu!
22.10.20

Documentary about Hugdetta and Sweet Salone!
20.10.20

More ICT graduates in Sierra Leone!
19.10.20

Marketing Sessions at Lettie Stuart
16.10.20

The first Cohort is a fact!
25.09.20

The Premiere of The Hero‘s Journey to the Third Pole
24.09.20

Roadtrip to Tonkolili & Makeni
24.09.20

Blog post for Music Diplomacy
14.09.20

Throwback time – OSUSU
26.08.20

Back to work with Cohort 1
21.08.20

The team is back together!
22.07.20

Aurora and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iceland sign a contract
01.07.20

Solar energy at the pottery centre!
15.06.20

Collaboration between Aurora and Mengi
27.05.20

Initiatives during COVID-19
02.04.20

Aurora webshop!
26.03.20

Guest speakers at Aurora Impact
10.02.20

The first ICT graduates of 2020
05.02.20

Cohort 1!
29.01.20

Happy birthday to Aurora!
20.01.20

New year, new courses!
31.12.19

Another amazing year!
19.12.19

Computers for the Female Correctional Centre!
12.12.19

Congratulations winners of Kraumur Music Awards 2019!
06.12.19

Another ICT course has come to an end!
03.12.19

Kraumur Music Awards shortlist for 2019
02.12.19

Aurora supports Technovation Girls!
13.11.19

Applications for our Pre-Accelerator programme are open!
06.11.19

The first graduates of our Intermediate ICT course!
21.10.19

Fashion design course in collaboration with Iceland University of the Arts
16.10.19

Aurora donated 20 computers to Leaders Collage for their new IT lab
14.10.19

The first course on Wilkinson Road already underway
10.10.19

Delegation from Iceland visits Aurora in Sierra Leone
19.09.19

New ICT course on the agenda
17.09.19

The first song is out – WOMAN
10.09.19

Launch on Thursday!
01.09.19

Addition to the Aurora team!
22.08.19

Amazing event this afternoon at the Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied art
20.05.19

The trainers and producers at the pottery center receive a real boost!
23.04.19

Aurora supports the School-feeding in Magbenteh School again
26.03.19

Pottery school in full swing
18.02.19

Sweet Salone project at full speed!
15.02.19

New agreement signed with GGEM
14.02.19

Launch of the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre
01.02.19

The design team 1+1+1 is in Freetown! At least part of it!
01.01.19

Happy New Year!
12.12.18

Congratulations winners of Kraumur Music Awards 2018!
03.12.18

Kraumur Music Awards shortlist for 2018
21.11.18

Music Writing Week
17.10.18

Positive result of the school feeding programme
17.10.18

Busy weeks at the Lettie Stuart Pottery
23.08.18

Visit to Aurora´s partners in microfinance in Sierra Leone
19.04.18

New videos on Aurora’s Youtube Channel
27.03.18

Magbenteh school-feeding programme off to a successful start
20.03.18

New Online Magazine on the collaboration of 1+1+1 and Aurora
15.03.18

Successful opening of new Sweet Salone collection designed by 1+1+1
13.03.18

Welcome to the opening of Sweet Salone & 1+1+1
10.03.18

Sweet Salone receives Reykjavik Grapevine Design Award
08.03.18

Aurora supports school feeding programme
23.01.18

Aurora Foundation turns 11 years old!
23.12.17

Products from Aurora’s Sweet Salone project well received
11.12.17

Congratulations winners of Kraumur Music Awards 2017!
17.11.17

Crowded venue at the opening of Sweet Salone project and Sense of Place photo exhibition
11.11.17

The third ICT project rolled out
08.11.17

Welcome to Sweet Salone and the exhibition Sense of place
11.10.17

New project in Sweet Salone
04.10.17

Aurora Foundation seeks to appoint an Intern to be posted in Sierra Leone
17.08.17

Aurora donates to victims of the mud-slide in Sierra Leone
02.06.17

Aurora opens a new office in Freetown
23.05.17

Aurora donates 20 hospital beds
19.05.17

Deloitte Iceland supports Aurora’s projects
19.12.16

Aurora supports Tau frá Tógó
15.12.16

Life by Design receives computers
10.12.16

Congratulations winners of Kraumur Music Awards 2016!
02.12.16

A second IT project rolled out
24.11.16

University of Sierra Leone receives IT equipments from Iceland
06.11.16

UNICEF’s Final Report on an Educational Project in Sierra Leone
03.11.16

Opening ceremony of public bathroom facilities in Funkia, Goderich
21.10.16

Three-year pilot project of Aurora Design Fund and Kraumur Music Fund concludes
22.09.16

Sad news from West-African fishing territories
03.07.16

Aurora Foundation donates ISK 6,000,000 to Icelandic charities
26.06.16

New micro-credit project signed in Freetown
15.04.16

Aurora Foundation donates to Icelandic charities
18.03.16

Aurora supported a free ICT training course in Freetown and the 85 participants received computers as a reward in the end
18.01.16

Aurora signs an agreement to build latrines in the fishing community in Goderich, Sierra Leone
11.01.16

Aurora Foundation Chronicle 2015
20.12.15

Kraumur presents its 8th annual music awards
26.10.15

New business relationship formed after receiving microcredit
16.10.15

First step in getting the fish- and landing site in Tombo, Sierra Leone up and running
09.09.15

Mary Roberts thankful for the opportunity to expand her business with microcredit
11.08.15

Aurora director, Mrs. Auður Einarsdóttir, leaves post
29.04.15

Regína Bjarnadóttir has been hired as a director of development projects with Aurora Foundation
11.04.15

Thank you note from the First Lady in Sierra Leone
02.04.15

Aurora´s support to Sierra Leone in the local media
15.03.15

Kraumur and Aurora Design fund throw a Street-party at Icelandic design festival, DesignMarch
23.01.15

Milestone agreements signed in Sierra Leone
21.01.15

Many apply for the post of director of Aurora Foundation
11.12.14

The Kraumur music award winners of 2014
25.11.14

Designers receive grants from Aurora Design Fund for the 12th time
20.11.14

Aurora signs loan agreements with two microfinance companies in Freetown.
19.11.14

A meeting with the President of Sierra Leone
19.11.14

The First Lady of Sierra Leone receives the medical aid from Aurora
14.11.14

Aurora is taking on emergency aid in Sierra Leone
18.06.14

Donation to UNICEF
24.05.14

“Wind of Change”-symposium at Iðnó
08.05.14

Aurora Design Fund disperses grants to designers for the 11th time
21.03.14

Kraumur allocates ISK7.3 million
10.02.14

Final Reports from UNICEF as a five year projects closes down
18.12.13

Kraumur List presented for the sixth time!
26.11.13

Eleventh allocation of Aurora Design fund
22.03.13

Sixth allocation of Aurora Fund
15.03.13

Hæg breytileg átt (English: Slow shifting wind) is a new project of AuroraDesign Fund
19.12.12

Kraumur List presented for the fifth time
27.11.12

Aurora Design Fund allocates
06.10.12

ASCHOBI premieres at the fashion week in Paris
31.05.12

Aurora Design Fund allocates ISK 10 million
15.02.12

Allocation to the daughter funds and to Aurora Fund’s educational project inSierra Leone
16.12.11

Kraumur List 2011
06.12.11

The Kraumur List – The Élite List 2011
17.11.11

Sharing experience
17.11.11

Latter allocation of Aurora’s Design fund 2011
18.07.11

Kraumur allocates financing to the Conquest 2011
11.05.11

Kraumur allocates
23.03.11

Former allocation of Aurora Design fund 2011
13.03.11

Presentation of a performance assessment of the daughter funds
16.02.11

Performing arts, the search and rescue team Ársæll and the exhibition ofLouise Bourgouis at the National Gallery of Iceland are new sponsor projects ofAurora Fund
21.10.10

The autumn allocation of the Design Fund
11.06.10

The children’s radio in Mozambique
21.05.10

Centre for puppet arts
27.04.10

Kraumur announces support to the Icelandic music scene
24.03.10

Aurora fund allocates USD 800 thousand to four projects in Iceland and in Sierra Leone
18.02.10

First allocation of three in 2010 from Aurora Design Fund.
20.11.09

Visit to Sierra Leone in November 2009
18.03.09

Aurora fund allocates 111, 5 million ISK to projects in Iceland and in Africa
29.01.08

Looking beyond the horizon
23.01.08

Aurora Charity Fund allocates ISK 210 million to four projects in Iceland and Africa
23.01.07

Philanthropic foundation established