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On Thursday, the 20^th of July, 2023, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki the students performed a workshop regarding the fulfillment of their training course.

At the workshop where the Vice Rector for Scientific Affairs, the Director of International Relations Office, and the Director of the Career Development Center were present the students presented a seminar in which they discussed their proposals to solve the companies’ problems.

The workshop was a part of a project called (Innovation Hub Club) that was conducted for three months by the assistance of Dutch SPARK Organization and supervised by DOINK (Graphic Design Firm), in which seven students from the Erbil Polytechnic University successfully completed the training course and learned how to manage a student club.

The project was supervised by the Career Development Center Directorate (CDC) of the University Presidency. After the completion of the course the students opened a club called Students Club on 15, 16 and 17 June, 2023 and the first activity of the club (Innovation Hub Club) started. The main trainers of this workshop were seven students of the Erbil Polytechnic University.

Today, the workshop ended and certificates were distributed on the students and a Student Club were awarded to them by the Dutch SPARK Organization, DOINK Firm, and the Career Development Center. In this training course 22 students participated.

This workshop was an opportunity for students to develop skills and introduce them to the labor market and how to solve the problems faced by companies, and strengthen communication skills and self-confidence.

It is worth mentioning that this workshop was a challenge between students of the Erbil Polytechnic University, the Mosul University and Northern Technical University.

On Thursday, the 20^th of July, 2023, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki received five students of our university who are going to visit Egypt for summer internship.

In a meeting where the Vice Rector for Scientific Affairs and Higher Education, Vice Rector for Students Affairs, and the Director of the International Relations Office were present, after welcoming the students, they gave necessary instructions on how to behave in their trip to Egypt and wished them a trip full of knowledge and cultural exchange.

During the meeting, the Rector welcomed the students and said: “I am pleased that a number of our students are traveling to exchange science, information, culture and nationality. Now the door is open for scientific trips. As the university presidency, we want our students to travel and see countries and show the beautiful Kurdish culture to other countries What is your history and what is your ownership”

“The most important thing is to show them our beautiful face and tell them that multi-religion and multi-culture live together in Kurdistan without problems and we accept each other. You are young people. I hope you will benefit and be more open-minded, because this journey is not only scientific but also a cultural, national and national journey.”

The students are scheduled to travel on Friday, July 21, 2023 and stay in Egypt for a month. They are third year students of Erbil Technical Administrative College, the Erbil Health and Medicine College, and the Erbil Technical Engineering College who are chosen to perform their summer internship program in the Egypt University for Science and Technology (جامعة المصر للعلوم والتکنولوجا).

This trip is a part of the strategy of the Erbil Polytechnic University to become international. This student exchange program is a part of this strategy and will continue annually.

A Delegation of the Erbil Polytechnic University visited the United Kingdom to participate in an activity and hold several meetings with governmental and academic institutions.

The delegation consisted of the Rector Representative Dr. Talib Muhammed Sharif, Dr. Selar Othman the Representative of the Imperial English College-UK in the Erbil Polytechnic University, Ms. Hero Saed Muhammed Nuri, and Ms. Zhilia. On Sunday, the 9^th of June, 2023, they attended a six-day scientific conference entitled “Teaching English in a Digital Word” organized by Imperial English/UK and Aston University in Birmingham.

The delegation’s visit and participation in the conference is a part of the collaboration between our university and Imperial English/in the field of English and academic language. On the sidelines of the conference, the EPU delegation and the Head of Imperial English/UK held a meeting and discussed the joint projects between the two sides, especially the reform of English programs in colleges and institutes affiliated to our university. The Imperial English/UK expressed their full cooperation to further promote their collaboration with the EPU.

Our university delegation also visited the Mayor of Birmingham and they presented a gift to the Mayor. In a speech, our university delegation spoke about the progress and peaceful coexistence in our region and said that as Kurdistan fought against ISIS terrorists instead of the world, more work should be done to assist the region in all areas, especially working on the friendship between the Erbil City and Birmingham.

The delegation also visited the University of Coventry and within the academic relationship they discussed the collaboration and joint work in carrying out joint projects between students from both sides in the fields of automotive and engineering.

During their stay in the UK, our university delegation visited the University of Cambridge to build relationship and sign future memorandum of understanding.

On Thursday, the 13^th of July, 2023, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University and the President of the Iraqi Branch of Toyota Japanese Company signed a memorandum of understanding.

In the ceremony, the Rector delivered a speech and said: “Such similar memoranda between the university and the private sector does not exist, but we as the Erbil Polytechnic University is the first university in the Middle East to find jobs directly for our graduates. And such memoranda of understanding are beneficial to both sides because our graduates get jobs and companies benefit from their talents.”

Then, the President of Toyota/Iraqi Branch said: “We have a concept of cooperating and participating in the development of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region and the purpose of such projects is to help in providing job opportunities for university graduates. We want to be the pioneer of all Japanese companies in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.”

Finally, the Rector invited the company to become a leader in the job seeking program that the Erbil Polytechnic University is currently working on. As a university, we want to ensure that our graduates do not think about government employment and get job opportunities in the private sector.

It is worth mentioning that the delegation of our university consisted of the Dean of the Erbil Technology College, the Head of Automotive Technical Department of the Erbil Technology College, the Directors of the International Relations Office, the Career Development Center and the Relations Coordinator between the university and the company.

The Memorandum of Understanding content between the Erbil Polytechnic University and the Toyota Company/Iraq:

• Providing some of the practical training requirements by the company.
• Training the teachers of automotive technical department in the Erbil Technology College in several technical fields of automotive.
• Providing internship opportunities for second year diploma students and third year bachelor’s students on an annual basis.
• Giving the information of the Automotive Department graduates to Toyota Company-Iraq to consider them for employment opportunities in the company according to the company’s procedures.
• Delivering e-training in the automotive technology field for the automotive department lecturers to be exclusive to the teachers of the department.