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On Monday 12th of October 2020, the Rector of the EPU, with the presence of both his assistants for Scientific Affairs and Administration and Finance Affairs and the International Relations Office Director, received the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation.

In this meeting, the ICRC delegation, which consisted of Ms.Teresa Pawel and Ghassan Alus, discussed opening the Orthotics and Prosthetics Department in the Erbil Health Technical College and its preparation. They also discussed the obstacles they face during the process and how to solve them.

In a mutual project, both the EPU and ICRC will open the Orthotics and Prosthetics Department in the Erbil Health Technical College, which will be the first department all over Iraq. It is also supposed in the nearest future; both parties sign a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate and cooperate in more projects.

On Wednesday 7th October 2020, with the Presence of several Deans of the colleges and institutes and both the Rector assistants for Scientific Affairs and Administration and Finance Asst. Prof. Dr. Kawa Abdulkareem Sherwani rewarded honorary certificates to the top three lecturers of the university and the top lecturers of the colleges and institutes of the Quality Assurance Process.

At the beginning of the celebration, the Rector delivered a speech. He expressed his appreciation and gratitude towards the successful instructors of the quality assurance process and hoped that they continue in their great achievements. He also mentioned that they wanted to invite the concerned academic staff to the process because of the pandemic situation and implementing the health instructions. He also thanked all the lecturers that obtained high scores in this process.

Later his Excellency Asst. Dr. Kawa Abdulkareem Sherwani started to honor the mentioned academic staff with honorary certificates.

On Tuesday 6th of October, 2020, Erbil Polytechnic University launches a new webinar about the pandemic Corona-Covid 19. The second webinar will begin with Dr. Dashti Bistani, Specialist in Cardiology and Rheumatology, the President of the Corona Resistance Committee in Erbil, and Iraq’s Scientific Committee Member. This webinar is under the title “Protection against Corona Covid 19 for the Students and Lecturers during Studying inside Classes” that will start on the 6th of October, 2020, at 9:00 PM.

To participate in this event, kindly visit this link.

Note: 6 hours before the event, the webinar participation link will be sent to you via email.

On Tuesday, 22th of September 2020, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University Assist Prof. Dr. Kawa AbdulKareem Sherwani, rewarded the certificate of Honorary to the attendees of the Electronic Education Course. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, in collaboration with the American Organization (IREX), managed this course.

At the beginning of the ceremony, the university Rector delivered a speech in which he expressed his sincerity and gratitude towards the participants and wished them success. He also talked about the importance of the course and said: “we should cope with the current situation, and the education process should not slow down.

The course presented under the title of “The Program of Artistic Training and Preparing the Academic Staff for Electronic Education” Ten  Admin staff from different departments of the  EPU colleges and institutes attended this course, who hold Ph.D., master and bachelors’ degrees in computer and Information Technology (IT). After completing the course, most of the academic staff will benefit from the activities and the training that the admin staff has learned and experienced during the course.

The total number of academic staff who attended the course reached (885) from various Governmental and Private Universities in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. The course included a detailed Program about electronic education which consisted of three units, each unit contained three lessons in which they studied 2 lessons in a week in two hours duration. Despite these, they held several meetings after the lessons to answer the participants’ questions.