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Within the continuation of the work and activities of the American Organization (IREX) through the university work centers, a group of the Erbil Technical University students participated in an international activity alongside the universities of Iraq, the United States, and Jordan for (8) weeks.

The event was a competition entitled (Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge), dedicated to finding a solution to one of the challenges by creating a product and introducing it to the labor market. Our students were able to present a product for general agricultural and dry season purposes.

It is worth mentioning that our university team was one of the five successful teams in the semi-finals. In the final stage, they were able to maintain its status as the only university in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. Moreover, they could win the second place worldwide and became one of the winners of the financial prize of the event. Cheerfully, our university team (Team 1 the Rising Sun) received a warm welcome from the audience and we were able to get the maximum number of votes for the favorite team, as a result of an excellent performance.

As its normal activities, teams from Iraqi and Jordanian universities will get united with teams from US universities to form an international team. This time our university team got united with Lone Star College, Houston, Texas.

It is worth mentioning that the university team was supervised by teachers (Sarwan Sadiq Hassan and Azhin Saber Ali) teachers of the Department of Analysis of Shaqlawa Technical College.

Congratulations to all students, teachers and staff of the university.

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On Sunday the 17 December 2023, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki several members of the university council, teachers, employees and students, several activities and ceremonies worthy of the flag day were held in the presidency and both campuses one and two of the Erbil Polytechnic University.

At the beginning, the Rector of the university delivered a speech in which he expressed his pleasure to commemorate this holy occasion and said: “If we go back to history, flag making has an ancient history and according to historical sources, the idea of using the flag originated in India and China, then in Southeast Asia It became familiar.

In the Middle Ages, flags were used for various purposes such as identity and class distinction in cities, as well as for temples, religious places, religious ceremonies, as well as in wars and revolutions, and each army had its own flag.

Like any other nation in the world, the Kurdish nation has had its own flag, which has changed its shape and colors according to the stages of history.

The flag that we proudly raise here today is the flag of the first Kurdistan Republic that was hoisted by Peshawa Qazi Mohammad.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic, Peshawa Qazi Mohammad handed over the only souvenir of the republic, the Kurdistan flag, to General Mustafa Barzani.

After the uprising, the Kurdistan National Assembly declared December 17 as the day of raising the Kurdistan flag by its resolution No. 48 on June 19,

In the history of the Kurdish people’s struggle and sovereignty, the Kurdish flag has had its own sacred flag and hundreds of sacrifices have been made to protect it.

Although successive Iraqi regimes have always planned to weaken and destroy the Kurds. For this purpose they have faced the armed struggle of the Kurdish people in several stages, but the Kurdistan flag has always remained as a symbol of victory.

While the nations of the world are proud of their identity and flag, we similarly as Kurdish people are proud of the sacredness of our flag and under the orders of President Massoud Barzani, we are ready to die every minute under the shadow of that flag.

We hope that one day our Kurdistan flag will shine along with the flags of other countries in front of the UN headquarters and in international centers.

Happy Kurdistan Flag Day in a resilient and prosperous Kurdistan.

I welcome all of you and thank you again for your attendance.”

Afterwards, the commemoration was decorated with the presentation of several poems dedicated to the flag and Kurdistan by teachers, employees and students.

Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, paid an official visit to the UK last week with a high-level delegation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research consisted several ministry advisors, general directors and the presidents of Salahaddin, Sulaimaniya, Duhok, and Garmian universities.

The main purpose of the visit was to establish partnerships and collaboration between the universities of the Kurdistan Region and the UK. In this context, they visited a number of universities in the UK and held a series of academic and scientific meetings.

During the visit of the high delegation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region to the University of Nottingham, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki shed light on the structure of the Erbil Polytechnic University and the scientific departments that our university needs more cooperation and support  especially the new ones which are rare in the Kurdistan Region and the region.

They also emphasized the internationalization of the university, participation and partnership of our university in the fields of research, exchange of teachers and students, review of curricula and assistance to train teachers in the fields that our university needs.

During the visit of the high-level delegation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region to the UK, they visited Loughborough University, where the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University delivered a seminar.

In the seminar, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki focused on the history and structure of the Erbil Polytechnic University and the university data and curricula, as well as higher education programs and the number of higher education students in higher diploma, master and doctorate in our university.

Then, the President of the Erbil Polytechnic University spoke about the needs of the scientific departments that are new in our university and have been opened as the needs of the labor market and need more support.

During their visit to the UK, the delegation visited both Aston and Sussex Universities and after their meetings they visited the laboratories and scientific departments of the universities.

Our university presidency plans to establish long-term academic and scientific relations with these universities and to follow up on the content of the understandings established with these universities.

His Excellency Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, participated in the Natural Therapy Festival at the Erbil Technical Health and Medicine College.

In the festival, the Dean Assistant of the Assistant, the Head of the Department of Natural Therapy and a number of teachers and students were present.

The students explained their posters to the university Rector and the audience.

It is worth mentioning that the Department of Natural Therapy of the Assistant conducts this scientific activity every year and the students display their posters within an exhibition.