On Thursday, the 7th of September, 2023, his Excellency our university Rector, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki received Mr. De Wilde Roeland, the Executive Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Mohammed Mr. Diler Faisal, the Head of the Disaster Risk Reduction at the organization.
In a meeting where the Vice Rector for the Scientific Affairs and Higher Education and the Director of International Relations Office of our university were present, they discussed the implementation of the memorandum of understanding between our university and IOM that was signed in the past (EPU-Youth Mappers Students chapter) which includes working together to serve the Kurdish society, especially the Erbil city through (EPU-Youth Mappers Students chapter) which consists of a number of teachers and students of our university to solve the flood problem in Erbil.
The first joint work of our university with this organization was preparing a proposal to solve the problem of floods and water accumulation in some areas of Erbil that was submitted to the Council of Ministers. After receiving the approval, our university jointly with the International Organization for Migration will implement the project in collaboration with the Ministry of Municipalities and Tourism.
