International Activities

Duhok polytechnic University

Till 2020

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DPU’s International

Programmes

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INTERNATIONAL

PROJECT

Erasmus+

Online Platform for Academic TEaching and Learning in

Iraq and Iran (OPATEL) It is a three years project started on October 15, 2016, and funded by the

European Union through Erasmus+ programme that concentrates on

providing Iraqis and Iranian students and teachers with competencies

and skills needed by using Learning Management Systems in Education.

The aim of OPATEL consists in establishment and development of E-

Learning center to train staff and students in Iraqis and Iranian

universities by using online platform for teaching and learning to be as

a hub for using best practices in ICT in education, as well as raising

competencies of lecturers and teachers by enhancing the learning

processes of students.

The use of online Platform will steer the education, technical ICT in the

right direction. Training of staff to enhance and develop their abilities,

will promote reform and modernization of higher education in both

countries. Through this platform partner universities will have a new

vision in education systems and these will enhance quality and relevance

of higher education.

Partners

There are 13 universities participate in this project, including local and

foreign. The universities are:

European Partners

- Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK)

- Institute Superior de Pacos de Brandao (ISPAB)

- University of Patras (UPAT)

- Int@E UG

- Paulo & Beatriz - Consultores Associados, Lda (P&B)

Iraqi Partners

- University of Duhok (UoD)

- Salahaddin University (SU)

- University of Baghdad (UoB)

- Duhok Polytechnic University (DPU)

- University of Basrah (UOB)

Iranian Partners

- Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University (IAUSDJ) - Iran

- Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) - Iran

- University of Torbat-e Heydarieh (UTH) - Iran

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Erasmus+

INTERNATIONAL PROJECT

RESCUE

The partner countries involved in this proposal, namely Lebanon, Jordan and

Iraq (but also some of the Programme Countries involved, such as Turkey and

Germany) are experiencing a very critical situation due to the high number of

refugees present on their territory: most of these are Syrian citizens, and include

a high percentage of former University students who had to interrupt their

academic curriculum.

The main specific objective of RESCUE is to help the Partner Country

Universities in structuring an effective response to this problem, by creating ad

hoc units (the Refugee Student Operational Support Unit – R-SOS), whose

mission is to structure specific services supporting the refugee students in

resuming their academic training path. The analysis carried out by the target

universities has shown that each one of them has different approaches and

constraints vis-à-vis this problem, therefore ad hoc solutions must be

implemented in each one of them.

Once the R-SOS units will be operational, the services they will deliver will help

the refugee students in resuming their academic training path, in some cases by

accessing the standard curricula on the same basis as all the other students, in

some other cases by following ad hoc training courses providing them with basic

skills and competencies useful for employment purposes.

Therefore it is expected that the setting up of the R-SOS units will help in

improving the situation of the refugee student either by supporting them in

getting a job in the hosting countries either in preparing them for returning to

their origin country once the crisis is over.

RESCUE Partners

- UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union, Italy

- UNIROMA1, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

- TUB, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

- IAU, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey

- UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

- USEK, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon

- LU, Lebanese University, LU

- UoD, University of Duhok, Iraq

- DPU, Duhok Polytecnic University, Iraq

- AArU, Association of Arab Universities, Jordan

- YU, Yarmouk University, Jordan

- ZUJ, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Jordan

- ZU, Zarqa University, Jordan

- LIU, Lebanese International University, Lebanon

INTERNATIONAL

PROJECT

Erasmus+

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Transfer of Good Practices & Reinforcement of

Internationalisation Strategies in Kurdistan

(TIGRIS) The TIGRIS project is coordinated by the Georg-August-

University Gottingen, Germany. The project is running for 3 years

from 2017, till 2020.

The aforementioned project aims to work on three different levels

in order to support the modernisation, accessibility, and

internationalisation of higher education in Kurdistan.

TIGRIS partners

The partners of TIGRIS project are composed of 4 European

partners and 10 Kurdish partners, including the Ministry of Higher

Education and Scientific Research (MHESR), as well as 2 associate

partners.

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INTERNATIONAL PROJECT

Higher and Further Education Opportunities and Perspectives

for Syrians (HOPES)

HOPES is a €12 million project, funded by the European Union’s

Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis, ‘the Madad

Fund’ and implemented by the German Academic Exchange Service

(DAAD) together with the British Council, Campus France and

Nuffic.

It aims at improving prospects for young Syrians and contributing to

the preparation of the post-crisis reconstruction of Syria. The project

seeks to provide better access to quality further and higher education

opportunities for refugees of post-secondary-age from Syria as well

as young people in the host communities affected by the high influx

of refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Processional

course for high-school graduation of Syrian refugee students with

low grade to enroll diploma study at DPU has done.

REXNet

The development of an online laboratory (virtual laboratory) based

engineering learning environment targeting computer science and

engineering students. Supported by IREX.

HOPES And

REXNet

Internationalisation Strategy

DPU attributes great importance to international exchange in research and teaching,

and promotes the cooperation with universities and other partners worldwide. Hence,

the university attempts to be a place of international cooperation regarding the

international exchange of students and professors as well as academic research. The

international orientation, which is supporting by the International Office at DPU,

includes all aspects of university life, such as research and teaching.

The DPU places great value on "Internationalisation", and the Internationalisation

Strategy that is detailed in the following emphasizes this. Moreover, it defines

measures to expand and consolidate internationalisation in research and teaching.

Objectives

The main objective of DPU pursues to increase public attention on an international

level in order to strengthen the international orientation within the university

environment. This lays to prepare efficient technical graduates and researchers with

distinct levels of knowledge and technological innovation to achieve the international

standards of quality assurance in accordance with the labor market needs in public and

private sectors. This can be done by providing the opportunity of mobility scheme for

students, staff and researches as well as for striving scholarships and

internships/summer training. The objective of internationalisation strategy accents the

international position and reputation of the university with regard to high-profile

research and teaching, research cooperation and the education of future scholars,

specialists and managers.

Strategic Goals

Goal 1: Mobility Scheme

- Research Exchange

- Student Exchange

- Staff Exchange

- Scholarships

Goal 2: Capacity Building: Internship/Summer Training

International students in DPU

- They are admitted to different departments. - They are (49) students till now.

- These students are from different counties, such as

(Germany , Turkey and Syrian)

- Near East University- Northern Cyprus

- Cyprus Eastern Mediterranean University-Northern Cyprus

- Leipzig University of Applied Sciences-Germany

- Near East University- Northern Cyprus

- Cyprus Eastern Mediterranean University-Northern Cyprus

- Masaryk University-Brno, Czech Republic

- BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY- Brno, Czech

Republic

PARTNERSHIPS

International - Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology-USA

- TU Bergakademie Freiberg-Germany

- Lulea University of Technology-Sweden

- Torino Polytechnic University-Italy

- Sassari University-Italy

- Budapest University of Technology and Economics- Hungary

- The University of Szeged-Hungary

- Kharkiv Aviation Institute-Ukraine

- Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute-Ukraine

- Kiev Polytechnic Institute-Ukraine

- European University of Lefke-Turkey

- Firat University-Turkey

- Bingol University-Turkey

- Siirt University-Turkey

- Yozuncu Yil Universitesi-Turkey

- Cyprus International University- Northern Cyprus

Contact us:

Director of International Relations,

Duhok Polytechnic University (DPU),

Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq.

E-mail: international@dpu.edu.krd

International Students Division,

Director of General Registration,

Duhok Polytechnic University (DPU),

Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq.

E-mail: istudents@dpu.edu.krd

DPU website

https://www.dpu.edu.krd