Ladies and Gentlemen, 

Dear participants and honorable guests 

On behalf of the Koya University Presidency I whole-heartedly welcome you all. Koya University is excited about taking its essential role by holding its third scientific conference on the Koyan figures. I have personally mentioned in a number of occasions and some other settings that Koya University has a great responsibility for conducting research and reviving the performance, products and the characteristics of the prominent figures, scientists, scholars, artists and politicians of the area that Koya University located. 

Behar English Language Center (BELC) at Koya University is pleased to announce that its classrooms have been busy for the last three weeks with the students of the Religious High School in Koya. Those 25 students and 4 teachers are being engaged in a semi-intensive English program as the target population of a program that is generously funded by The American Embassy and kindly hosted by Koya University.

Just over a year has passed since SEED and Koya University opened the Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS) and we have made tremendous progress. We've had 24 service providers graduate from the Psychosocial Support Services (PSS) Training Program, empowered with new skills and the practical experience that resulted from receiving clinical supervision. We already have 27 participants enrolled for our next session, which began last week. We trained nine faculty members of Koya University on trauma psychology, supervision, and interactive teaching methods.

2018 International Conference on Pure and Applied Science (ICPAS 2018) is organized annually by the Faculty of Science and Health at Koya University on April 23rd and 24th 2018 with support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region-Iraq. the ICPAS 2018 has the doi: 10.14500/icpas2018. Start here to submit a paper to this conference: STEP ONE OF THE SUBMISSION PROCESS

Gas flares provide for safe emergency release of purged or waste gases from refineries, unrecoverable gases from oil wells, blast furnaces gases, coke oven gases, and waste gases from chemical plants. Flares also process waste gases from sewage digesters, coal and bio-mass gasifiers and fertilizer plants. Gas flares safely dispose of vapor streams by “combusting” them under controlled conditions to minimize impact on nearby equipment or personnel while meeting environmental regulations and public relations requirements.

In today's ever rapid open access scientific work the role of quality check indexing services become more and more vital to help a quick way for finding more reliable and open information sources. One of these major player is the Database of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) which is used by many scholars around the world. Aro-The Scientific Journal of Koya University has been listed by DOAJ for sometimes now and just recently has been approved to be listed in DOAJ Seal. This is a good news for our research communities who have managed to published with Aro-The Scientific Journal of Koya University so far. The DOAJ Seal list is provided to handful selected jurnal worldwide that adhere to outstanding best practice; journals that don’t have the Seal are good, trusted journals adhering to best practice.

On Sunday November 19th 2017, the trainees’ graduation ceremony of the first training program of the Mental Health and Psychological Support Service held at the Presidency Building of Koya University. The ceremony was held with the presence of the US General Consul to Erbil Ken Gross, the head of the SEED Foundation and the Council Member of Koya University. At the beginning, Ms. Frishta the head of the Center presented her welcome speech to the audience and after her, the US General Consul to Erbil Ken Gross gave his speech as follows: 

Koya University and Bielefeld University (Germany) have assigned a agreement to conduct collaborative work on an importnat project that deal with “Transformations of War and Barbarism”. This project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The project will fully fund a PhD study on the topic of this project. Koya Univeristy will candidate a PhD student from the Department of Clinical Psychology (DCLP) to carry on the study.

The PhD study proposal will be about the investigation of the psychological impact of the war, especially the recent Daesh (ISIS) war and its related effects on the Kurdish society.

A team of Fulbright Exchange Program Alumni from Koya University won a grant within the competition “ 2017 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF)” which is amongst the “ U.S. Embassy Grants Program “. The team were consist of: Mr. Peshawa J. Muhammad Ali, a lecturer from department of software engineering, Koya University, Dr. Hamid Abdulsalm from Spring International Language Center, Koya University, and the retired professor of Koya University Dr. Hamid Muhammad Jassim (currently working at UKH).

This summer five Koya university academic staff are fully funded from the US consulate in Baghdad to participate in the  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program which will take place at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville from the 19th of August through the 23rd of September, 2017.