Kick-Off Meeting
The very first in-person meeting of the project, to kick off the activities, take the preliminary strategic decisions to run the project and discuss about expectations, roles, responsibility and for Partners to know each other well. It was hosted in Duhok by the University of Duhok.
Consultative workshop
The consultative workshop was organized at the University of Halabja with key university staff members with the aim to present, discuss and consolidate the information collected during the benchmarking study and the needs analysis. It was crucial in gathering and deepening information on Basic Education Colleges and training needs in Kurdish universities
Stakeholders' event
All the partners gathered at the University of Zakho, host of the event, with the goal to share, present and discuss about the action plans defined during the curricula review phase. The Stakeholder event saw the involvement of many different actors, from the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Education, as well as students and schools directors. More information and the Agenda of the event are available HERE.
Training at the University of Duhok
A two day local training 12 & 13 February held ad the University of Duhok and an online session held on February 15th by UTAD on some key topics related to teaching methodologies: History and Politics of the Past, Concepts and Categories of Contemporary History and Women studies, teaching of Contemporary History in KRG institutions and the value of Cooperative Learning. To know more, read HERE.
Training hosted by UNIMED - Mediterranean Universities Union
On September 9th, hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the Kurdish delegation participated in a training session at the premises of UNIMED - Mediterranean Universities Union. The participants had the opportunity to explore different topics such as Third mission in Higher Education for entrepreneurial university, SDGs in the university and the role of students in higher education with a focus on good practices on students’ engagement and alumni networks.
Training Workshop at the University of Trás os Montes e Alto Douro
On 10 and 11 September, a training workshop was held at the Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) in Portugal for participants from the universities of Iraqi Kurdistan, the main objective of which is to modernise and improve the training of future teachers. This training complements those previously carried out at the University of Pavia (UNIPV), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) and the University of Granada. The topics addressed during the conference were: cooperative learning and innovative learning tools and teaching practices for trainee primary school teachers. In addition, the activities implemented as a result of the previous trainings have been reported.
Networking event
The Networking event serves for the Pedagogic Centers as a basis for discussion and comparison among them and their related needs, priorities, syllabus review and updated courses.
The centers' Action Plans were presented, whose main aim is to equip KRI partner universities with an improved training programme focusing in particular on Special Education. Key inputs were shared, among
which the critical engagement of internal and external stakeholders, the need for more flexibility of the system, the need to improve curricula to comply with the emerging educational needs.
The project number is 101083095
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