{"id":23579,"date":"2026-04-27T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hac.is\/?p=23579"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:31:00","slug":"ny-stjorn-thekkingarnetsins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/ny-stjorn-thekkingarnetsins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New board of the Knowledge Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, 27th April, the annual general meeting of the \u00deingeyinga Knowledge Network was held in accordance with the organisation&#x27;s articles of association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agenda included the usual business of the annual general meeting, and the board presented the annual report along with the annual accounts for the previous financial year and a plan for the coming year&#x27;s activities, as stipulated in the articles of association. The board&#x27;s annual report was also reviewed, and nominations for board membership were presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the articles of association, five representatives sit on the board of the Knowledge Network, appointed for two-year terms. When appointing the board, emphasis is placed on reflecting the organisation&#x27;s main areas of activity: continuing education, research, university services and innovation. Nominations for the board are received from a diverse range of sources, including trade unions or employers, the higher education community, the innovation sector, further education colleges, and local authorities within the Knowledge Network&#x27;s area of operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following board was appointed at the meeting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 J\u00f3n H\u00f6skuldsson \u2013 (substitute: Sigur\u00f0ur \u00de\u00f3r Gu\u00f0mundsson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 Freyr Fri\u00f0finnsson (sub. Atli Bj\u00f6rgvinsson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Halld\u00f3r J\u00f3n G\u00edslason (substitute: Sigurbj\u00f6rn \u00c1rni Arngr\u00edmsson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 S\u00e6unn Stef\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir (substitute: Rannveig Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 Yngvi Ragnar Kristj\u00e1nsson (sub. Aneta Potrikus)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the annual general meeting, the new board elected J\u00f3n H\u00f6skuldsson as its next chairman.<br>The management of The Knowledge Network expresses its satisfaction with the new board and looks forward to the collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, 27th April, the annual general meeting of the \u00deingeyinga Knowledge Network was held in accordance with the organisation&#x27;s articles of association.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23635,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions\/23635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hac.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23579"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}