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Today 29^th of January, 2020, in a celebration, Erbil Polytechnic University started formally to activate the ECTS System of Bologna Process on its website. The university’s Rector, his assistants, Supervisors, and the committees implementing this system have attended this event.

At the beginning of the ceremony, his Excellency, the Assist Professor Dr.Kawa Sherwani, delivered his statement in front of the attendees. He expressed his gratitude and appreciation towards the committee that established and implemented the ECTS system for their outstanding efforts. Then, he said, “I introduce this system as a domestic one because our university IT staff, designers, and graphics have worked hard as a team to organize the mentioned system; due to this, they deserve to get rewarded.”

The Rector of EPU continued his speech and said, “The Bologna system is essential, especially for raising our university’s academic and scientific level. Also, to develop the electronic system in publishing the academic research, the instructors’ reports, students’ lectures, and their credits will affect the university’ ranking nationally and internationally.”

In this celebration, Mr. Nihad, the manager of IT and Communication at the EPU and the head of the committee of implementing the ECTS database system, presented a speech. He said, “The database system of ECTE has plenty of benefits because by applying Bologna process much facilitation will be done for the departments of the university and the departments of the colleges and institutes to be able to do their works easily on this new system.”

Also, Mr. Nihad clarified that the ECTS system cares about transparency amongst teachers and students. For example, this system makes the instructors use workloads for the students at the beginning of the studying semester and distribute them accordingly. Such away, from the beginning of the academic year, the students will realize the plan and resources of their studying, and can see their degrees.”

At the end of this event, the Rector of the EPU rewarded 32 members of the ECTS system implementation Committee, and he also awarded the talented students. They have excellent information technology skills as they voluntarily served the colleges and institutes in the past years.

Today, on the 7^th of January 8, 2020, Asst. Prof. Dr. Kawa Abdulkarim Sherwani, the president of Erbil Polytechnic University warmly welcomed Orhan Hikmat Aziz Oghlo, the Head of the International Universities Council in Turkey and his delegation.

In this meeting, the assistant of the president for Scientific Affairs, the dean of Erbil Technical Engineering College, the dean of Erbil Technical Medical Institute, the head of Scientific Council EPU, and the head of Grant and Fund Raising in International Office of EPU attended the session. They tackled the upcoming year’s academic affairs of the council, and they decided to hold a meeting in this for this purpose.

It is worth to be mentioned that his Excellency Asst. Prof Dr. Kawa Sherwani is the Head of the Academic Committee of International Universities Council. At the end of this session, both EPU President and the Head of ICU exchanged the souvenirs of both sides.

After ten weeks of participation in the “2019 Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge” program, on Wednesday the 18th of December, 2019  Erbil Polytechnic University received the certificate of honor as it reached the top 4 in a competition among 13 university teams of America, Iraq, and Jordan. The challenge included ten weeks of standards-aligned curriculum, a virtual challenge with binational teammates, investigation of the impact of global issues on local communities, creation of a prototype, and the final submission of a video and business plan describing the final presentation.

Three universities of Iraq attended the competitions, which are Erbil Polytechnic University, Sulaymaniya Polytechnic University, and Anbar University. EPU teams consisted of three groups; among them, two teams reached the final. The team of Erbil Polytechnic University has been chosen among 13 university teams of America, Iraq, and Jordan as the best one. EPU, alongside with Florida Keys Community Challenge of the U.S.A, created one team under the name of (Team 5).  These teams have spent at least ten weeks collaborating through virtual challenge on ideas that will address pressing global challenges. These teams have already tested their business concept.

Global Solutions is funded by the Stevens Initiative, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government, which is administered by the Aspen Institute and implemented by IREX. It is also supported by the Bezos Family Foundation and the government of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

For four days, a delegation of the Erbil polytechnic University represented by The Head of International Office in EPU, the Head of Scientific Departments in the Erbil Technical Engineering College, and the Deputy Dean of Koya Technical Institute (Evening Studying), the Head of Engineering Drawing at Shaqlawa Technical Institute and the Head of Electronics and Communication at Erbil Technology Institute visited four campuses of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld city in Germany. They warmly welcomed by a delegation of Bielefeld University consisted of Vice President of Scientific Affairs, the Coordinator of Dean of Engineering and Mathematics, Dean of Engineering and Mathematics, the Head of Automation and Controlling Department, Head of Service Engineering and Management Department and the main Coordinator of the projects of both universities.

On the second day of the visit, both representatives conducted a meeting. In this meeting, they agreed upon some key points, which were:

1. Exchanging of students and instructors;
2. Implementing scientific and joint researches;
3. Opening Master degree (Double Degree and Joint Degree);
4. To exchange mutual students;
5. To exchange program for undergraduate students using mobility programs.

Also, in this meeting, Ramyar Ali Abdalla, EPU bachelor student at the University of Bielefeld has delivered his project of bachelor thesis, which is about “Modeling, Simulation and 2D Animation of Invented Pendulum”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Eng. Christian Stöcker and Moaid Othman, a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering and Mathematics and the coordinator and the Focal point of EPU at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. It is worth to be mentioned that this project is successfully gained by the International office of Erbil Polytechnic University.

These meetings were very productive and positive, especially in the process of more collaboration in the mentioned above fields.