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An Erbil Polytechnic University delegation participated in the learning strategic plan workshop to develop Physical Rehabilitation Science in Iraq that was managed by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRS) from the 14^th to 17^th of August 2022 in the Canyon-Erbil Hotel.

During the workshop, the attendees discussed the Physical Rehabilitation standards draft and the study program. The workshop aimed to enhance and develop Physical Rehabilitation services in Iraq to reach familiar world standards.

The Head of the Physiotherapy Department, Dr. Mahdi Khalid Qader, and the Head of the Prosthetics and Orthotics Department, Dr. Thikra Ali Aziz at the Erbil Technical Health and Medical College, were the Erbil Polytechnic University representatives in the workshop.

Erbil Polytechnic University held the workshop in collaboration with the Iraqi and Kurdistan Region Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry, the Erbil Medicine College, the Middle Technical University, the Baghdad Technical Institute, and several Physiotherapists in different Iraqi cities.  

On Wednesday, the 16^th of August 2022, the Rector Assistant for Scientific Affairs participated in a joint meeting between the Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, the Health Ministry of Federal Iraq, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Canyon Hotel-Erbil.

In the meeting, the attendees discussed the mechanism of student admission, providing academic staff, the Orthotics and Prosthetics Department needs of the Technical Health and Medical College of the University and opening the postgraduate Study for this department collaboratively by the named parties.

It is worth mentioning that the Orthotics and Prosthetics Department is the only scientific department all over Iraq established in the Erbil Polytechnic University in the 2019-2020 academic year by the parties mentioned above collaboration, and ICRS financially funds it.

On Wednesday, the 16th of August 2022, the University Rector Assistant for Scientific Affairs, Dr.Nageb Toma Bato, received Mark Vanstingist, the Senior Expert at Technical and Vocational Education and Training at the Quarter Company.

In a meeting where the Rector Assistant for Students Affairs and the Curriculum Program Development Director was available, they talked about the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) project that provides new techniques for training lecturers, the study program, and skillful tests of TVET for agriculture center and the value of the necessary service series for an agricultural product in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.

The project aims to take care of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region Youth through which they receive job opportunities and enhance their experience in the labour market in the agriculture sector.  

The International Quarter Company, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and Stars Orbit jointly implement the project which is directly funded by the European Union. For performing their plan they chose our university in the Kurdistan Region.

During his visit, the Canadian Quarter Company Representative will visit Shaqlawa Technical College and Khabat Technical Institute to prepare a report for the European Union regarding the project implementation for agricultural departments and the quality of developing and designing of the studying program according to the labour market needs.

It is worth mentioning that the project will be implemented for the 2022-2023 study year in both Shaqlawa Technical Colleges And Khabat Technical Institute.