Author Archives: Aftaw Abdulla

On Sunday, September 10, 2023, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, received a delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross Organization (ICRC).

In the meeting the Vice Rectors for Scientific Affairs and Higher Education, the Administrative and Financial Affairs, the Director of the International Relations Office, and the Head of the Department of Prosthetic and Orthotics Department were present. They discussed the continuation of the Prosthetic and Orthotics Department which is for now financially supported by ICRC and in the next stages the responsibility of this department will be upon of our university.

An international evaluator accompanied the delegation who will evaluate the programs and laboratories of the Prosthetic and Orthotics Department.

On Sunday, the 10^th of September, 2023, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, received a delegation of WFP.

In a meeting where the Vice Rector for the Scientific Affairs and the directors of the Career Development, Engineering and Projects were present, they discussed the job fair and graduation ceremony for the students who have successfully completed the training courses in collaboration with our university WFP, which is financially supported by the German Ministry of Cooperation.

Within the framework of the work strategy and program of the Erbil Polytechnic University to assist the community, on Friday the 8^th of September, 2023, on the occasion of World Physiotherapy Day, students and graduates of the Department of Physiotherapy of the Erbil Technical College of Health and Medicine held an activity at the Grand Majidi Mall.

The activity included distributing guidelines and posters on the role of physiotherapy in arthritis among citizens, which was prepared by the Head of the Department of Physiotherapy in the Erbil Technical College of Health and Medicine in Kurdish language.

Annually, the World Organization for Physiotherapy conducts several activities in countries that include raising public awareness and preparing several posters in different languages. Fortunately, the Department of Physiotherapy has been preparing posters in Kurdish Language.

On Thursday, the 7^th 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.