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A Delegation of Kurdistan Regional Government Participates in Annual International Conference of International Non-Governmental Organization SPARK

A delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) consisted of Asst. Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki Erbil Polytechnic Rector, Dr. Hemn Mirani, General Director of the Interior Ministry Divan, and Dr. Muhamad Kalari, the General Director of the Supervision and Quality Assurance in the Ministry of the Higher Education and Scientific Research attended the ninth edition of the SPARK International Organization Annual Conference “Reimagine Jobs.

The international non-governmental organization SPARK presented the ninth edition of its annual IGNITE Conference on Monday, the 13th of September 2022, in Amsterdam. The conference attracted entrepreneurs, NGOs, governments, policy-makers, incubators, philanthropists, and over 40 organizations from across fragile and conflict-affected regions of the Middle East and Africa. The international non-governmental organization SPARK formally invited the KRG delegation.

The Annual IGNITE International Conference is a worldwide event focusing on job creation for youths, women, and refugees in emerging economies. The organizers from the Dutch international development NGO, SPARK, chose this year’s theme, “Reimagine Jobs,” because of the multiple intersectional problems facing youth today. 

In 2019, Erbil Polytechnic University signed an agreement with the international non-governmental organization SPARK to implement a program for migrants, poor people, and university alums to develop human resources to help them gain job opportunities.

Erbil Polytechnic University, the partner in implementing the SPARK projects in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region jointly with SPARK, opened many training courses in capacity building and leadership for our university alums and refugees.

A Delegation of Erbil Polytechnic University Participates In Bologna Process Scientific Conference Works And Activities

A delegation of the Erbil Polytechnic University headed by the University Rector Asst.Prof.Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki attended the works and activity process of the Bologna Process Scientific Conference of the Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry, which continued for two days.

The conference was held on the 28th and 29th of August 2022 at the Rotana-Erbil Hotel, where our university participated through panels, presentations, and live dialogues.

Erbil Polytechnic University is one of the universities that worked on the Bologna Process in the past and was an influential member of the conference.

It is worth mentioning that the representatives of all governmental and private universities and Bologna Process foreign experts from several European and neighboring countries attended this conference.

This conference aims to review and evaluate different viewpoints of the Bologna Process through dialogues and scientific debates to determine the problems and obstacles that face the process and find designs and proper ways to solve them; it has been about seven years since the ministry decided on implementing it. Today, the Bologna Process Conference successfully fulfilled its works.

Two Students of Erbil Polytechnic University Perform their Summer Training at Nizwa University In Oman Sultanate

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 1st to the 21st 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 27th 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.

 

Erbil Polytechnic University Receives BBW International Company Of Germany Representative

On Wednesday, the 24th of August 2022, the Erbil Polytechnic University Rector Asst. Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki received the BBW International Company of Germany Representative.

In a meeting where the University Rector Assistant for Scientific Affairs was present, they discussed developing practical and vocational levels of our university through providing training courses by the named company for the university lecturers, staff, and students according to the world standards and applying a dual system that will be implemented in the nearest future.