In Kurdistan Region the pressure on higher educational institutions to change is increasing. Mostly in the direction of filling the gap between academia and industry. Hence supplying the market with the skills needed and alleviate the unemployment problem are of substantial significance. Moreover, young people living in the areas beyond the governorate centers in Kurdistan Region-Iraq are more susceptible to unemployment and underemployment problems.

The Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) in cooperation with the international relations Directorate of the university and HWPL institution are running a program (Peace Education).

Koya University is in Erasmus+ partnership with the University of Almeria in Spain, and for this academic year 2018-2019 KOU have sent one student Mr Ibrahim Boskeni from Department of English. Mr Boskeni is spending his 4th year at UAL and he reports regularly about his experience and progress. 

The activity Committee of the Faculty of Science and Health (FSCH) is organizing a workshop on nanotechnology and its scientific applications. The workshop is scheduled for the 25- 26th of this month at the university Auditorium. It aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of carbon nanotubes and nanotechnology. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of carbon nanotubes and nanotechnology. 

Dr Halgurd S. Maghdid a member of academic staff in the department of software engineering/faculty of Engineering has published two research papers in a high ranked impact factor journal. The title of the first one is” Indoor human tracking mechanism using an integrated onboard smartphones Wi-Fi device and inertial sensors”. 

On 3-4 February 2019, an international workshop entitled “Sports is a healthy lifestyle” ran in the school of Physical Education. The workshop was a joint one with the Research and Training Academia in Britain and Perugia University in Italy. It lasted for (2) days. The first day went in the presidency hall, while the second day in the physical education school. The University president, the teaching staff, students, and a number of local and international guests attended it,  including international experts from Italy and Britain Universities.

Faculty of Engineering in Koya University has opened a unit for liquid soap production, which covers the University requirement in that aspect. In Koya University /Faculty of Engineering, a liquid soap production unit was opened by the University president prof D. Wali M. Hamad, his assistants, the Dean of Engineering Faculty, the head of Engineering Departments, the teaching staff, the students and the invited guests from outside the University for opening this educational unit for liquid soap production. 

Dr Mohammad Ghaffar Faraj the instructor in Physics Department in Faculty of Science and Health in our university has published a paper entitled “Impedance Spectroscopy as a Novel Approach to Probe the Phase Transition and Microstructures Existing in CS:PEO Based Blend Electrolytes” 

The most outcomes of the research were (The objective of this work is to show how the change of phase transition can be studied from the pattern of DC conductivity versus 1000/T. Furthermore, an obvious increase of crystalline phase as a consequence of an increase of various amounts of PEO to CS-based electrolyte has also predicted from the impedance plots) 

In Kurdistan Region the pressure on higher educational institutions to change is increasing. Mostly in the direction of filling the gap between academia and industry. Hence supplying the market with the skills needed and alleviate the unemployment problem are of substantial significance.

A delegation from Koya University, to set an academic relation, visited The University of Pisa in Italy. On Thursday, October 23rd at 9:30 a.m. a delegation from Koya University consisted of Prof. Dr Wali Mahmod, the President of the university and D. Hawker Bapir, Public Relations Officer, visited the Iraqi Embassy in the Italian Capital City Rome. They welcomed by D. Ahmed Bamarny, the Iraqi ambassador.