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On Thursday, the 15^th February, 2024, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, received two students of the Erbil Technical Administrative and Engineering Colleges who will continue their studies at Warsaw University of Life Sciences Warsaw in Poland.

Sending these students and studying at the university is within the framework of our university’s strategy with international universities.

In a meeting where Asst. Prof. Dr. Ranj Sirwan Abdullah, the General Director of the Scientific Research Center was available, the University Rector welcomed the students and their families and wished them a successful scientific journey. He said, “Our main goal is to internationalize our university which serves the interest of students, academic, and administrative staff in general. Currently, we are in collaboration with 70 universities around the world on how to exchange students.

We would like our students to bring back culture and beautiful appearance, science and useful information to our country, and we pay great attention to the subjects that your journey is scientific and educational. It is important to us how much they can benefit from these courses and be exemplary in terms of work and behavior.”

Then, the Director of International Relations said, “We at Erbil Polytechnic University after a lot of effort and competition with many Middle Eastern universities were able to obtain this offer at the level of all Iraqi universities. We received the financial support for the students to study the course at the expense of the university.

Later, the students thanked the presidency of the university and colleges and expressed their happiness for supporting and encouraging the students to make similar trips to different countries, and said they will meet the expectations of the teachers and the university.

The two students from the Department of International Marketing at Erbil Technical  Administrative College and the Department of Civil Engineering at Erbil Technical Engineering College have been selected by the Directorate of International Relations Office to participate in this offer and they are scheduled to start studying in Poland soon.

On Monday, the 12^th of February, 2024, in the presence of Asst. Prof. Dr. Botan Majid Ahmed, the Vice Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University for Scientific Affairs and Higher Education; Dr. Kihan Zrar Ghafoor, the Dean of Erbil Technology College and a delegation of Toyota Iraq held a ceremony to hand over a number of laboratory equipment to the Department of Automotive Technical Engineering (A.T.E) in Erbil College.

In the ceremony attended by the Vice Dean of the College, the Head of the Department of Automotive Technical Engineering and several teachers, the Toyota delegation handed over a number of equipment such as (gears and engines, lift jacks).

It is worth mentioning that the provision of these requirements is one of the points of the memorandum of understanding between the Erbil Polytechnic University and Toyota Iraq signed recently.

On Sunday, the 11^th of February, 2024, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, received Dr. Sally Bryan, the Vice Rector of University Institute and his accompanying delegation.

In a meeting where the Vice Rector for Scientific Affairs and Higher Education, the General Director of the Scientific Research Center, and Director of the Language Center of our university were present, both universities discussed the building relationship as a starting point to open a training course for academic and administrative staff of our university conducted by the named institute.

This course aims to strengthen the English language, especially in the field of conversation and some pedagogical issues that are conducted for our university teachers, which in the future will be within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between our university and the University Institute.

The course is scheduled to consist of six to eight groups and will last for four weeks starting at the end of April.

On Tuesday, the 6^th of February, 2024, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, visited the Erbil Chamber of Commerce and Industry to congratulate the new staff.

The delegation consisted of Asst. Prof. Dr. Botan Majid Ahmed, the Vice Rector for the Scientific Affairs and Higher Education; Asst. Prof. Dr. Yousef Mustafa Rasul, the Vice Rector for the Student Affairs, Asst. Prof. Dr. Ranj Sirwan Abdullah, the General Director of the Research Center, Mr. Kovan Omar, the Director of the Career Development Center, and Mr. Zanyar Jabar, a Lecturer in the Erbil Technical Administrative College.

The delegation was warmly welcomed by Mr. Gaylan Haji Saeed, the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Kamran Salah Bajger and Mr. Marouf Azizkhan Harki, the Vice Presidents of the Chamber, Mr. Ibrahim Gardi and Ms. Shirin Yahya, the members of the Executive Council of the Chamber.

In the meeting, the Rector of the the Erbil Polytechnic University mentioned the importance of the chamber in cooperating with universities and working together through companies, which will ultimately benefit both the government and graduates, thus reducing the burden on the government and graduates in terms of job opportunities for graduates. Therefore, we hope that the staff of both sides will work together to provide significant services.

The Rector said “Before, the university’s job was to graduate students for the government and employ them, but now the university’s job is to find jobs for them at the same time. We want to work together in this field through such workshops and exhibitions and introduce students to companies that can find jobs. The Department of Automotive and Marketing at our university provides direct employment for students, but we still need more assistance”.

From his side, the President of the Erbil Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomed the delegation and supported the words of the Rector of the University and said, we will certainly cooperate on our part and we will work together with full planning and collaboration.

He also said: I think the universities should do research on how to find job opportunities for students and graduates, we will help according to our ability and support, rest assured that we will not neglect and we will help.