Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University visited the Erbil Medical Technical Institute and was welcomed by Asst. Prof. Mr. Umed Arshad Hawezi, the Dean of the Institute, the Dean Assistant and several heads of departments.
Then the Rector met with the students of the criminal evidence department, which is the first scientific department in Iraqi universities in the Erbil Medical Technical Institute for employees of the Ministry of Interior of the Kurdistan Region.
The Rector pointed out the importance of studying in this scientific department and assured them of the university’s full support.
Meanwhile, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki opened an art exhibition for female students in the Erbil Technical Institute.
After visiting the exhibition, the university Rector congratulated the organizers of the exhibition and the students who exhibited their products and works in the exhibition.
He also had a close discussion with the participants of the exhibition and expressed his support for the further development of their work.
On Wednesday, December 20, 2023, his Excellency Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the University visited the Pedagogy Center and participated in a lecture of the course. He delivered a speech about the skills and abilities of modern teachers and the characteristics that modern teachers should acquire. He said: “Teachers should make the learning environment a modern learning environment through these skills and try to enable students to acquire skills that they can use in practice to find their place in the labor market,”.
In another part of his statement, the rector considered it necessary for teachers to create a link or relationship with the labor market in order to know what the contemporary needs of the labor market are and the skills that the labor market needs to develop its curriculum on this basis, the university becomes an institution that serves society in practice.
At the end of his speech, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki congratulated the pedagogical center, teachers and supervisors of the course and wished success to the participants.
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.
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.
