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Within the works and activities of the International Relations Office Directorate of the University and after the evaluation process, two of the Erbil Technical Engineering College participated in the summer training in the Nizwa University of Oman Sultanate that continued from the 1^st to the 21^st of August 2022.

Throughout the training, the students became familiar with Oman Sultanate culture and the Nizwa University Program and education system; meanwhile, they visited several Engineering College laboratories where they get trained on many advanced machines. Our university students performed numerous scientific and cultural activities, such as seminars about the education system in our university and introducing Kurdistan culture.

It is worth mentioning that this program came into implementation for the summer training after the EPU participation in the 27^th conference of the Association of Arab Universities. It is supposed the summer training will continue to give opportunities to the third-grade students of the Erbil Polytechnic University colleges to participate in the activity in one of the Arab Countries Universities.

 

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.