Human Security and Peacebuilding responds to the increasing demand for leadership in humanitarian assistance, social reconstruction, conflict management and peacebuilding in international contexts. On July 22nd, join Dr. Kenneth Christie, Mr. Saleh Moslem, Mr. Haval Ahmad, Ms. Emma MacTavish, and Dr. Sarbast Nabi for a virtual workshop entitled: Rojava and the Kurds: Human security, gender and peacebuilding in the de facto region in Northeastern Syria. The workshop is organized by Koya University with Royal Roads University.
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Today, Saturday 18th of July 2020, Prof. Salah I. Yahya had a presentation in the workshop entitled "Research, Journa, Author and University Impact: How and Why" that held by the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Al-Mustansiriya University. Prof. Yahya explianed during his presentation the status of the scientific research in Iraq,
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Koya University with Warsaw University of Life Sciences WULS – SGGW, University of Mosul and Cihan University-Erbil held an international workshop on Thursday, 2^nd of July 2020. The workshop entitled “Crisis Management in the Higher Education Sector during COVID - 19: Opportunities and Limitations” was for 2 hrs online on Google Hangouts Meet. This workshop is one of the fruitful collaboration and the memorandum of understanding that signed between Koya University and the other three universities. The Director General, Dr. Govand Sherwani, participated the workshp with an important speech on behalf of the Ministry of Higher Education - KRI.

Dr. Sahar Basil M. Al-Qaisi the assistant professor at the department of architectural engineering and the director of the Heritage Conservation Research Program (HCRP) at Koya University was invited to speak about documenting Koya Historic Town experience in the international symposium on (Urban Struggles in the Arab Region: Exchanging Experiences and Methodologies) that is organized by the Public Works Studio in Beirut.

Daban Q. Jaff, a Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Koya University introduces translating TED Talks to his class in two successive years. As part of class requirement, and as an attempt to promote the Kurdish language online presence, Daban Q. jaff introduces translating TED Talks to his class. TED platform is an international non-profit organization that each year gathers entrepreneurs and creative people around the world in two conferences at Vancouver in Canada and San Francisco in USA, in addition to that TED licenses independently and locally organized conferences that aim at spreading ideas worth to be shared.

The deirectorate of Quality Assurance at Koya University launched ver. 2.0 of the jindex application, a smart search engine web-application. This search engine helps the academics and researchers to search for any scientific journal indexes by one click. The search engine (jindex) is capable to search 7 databases belong to the Clarivate analytics cores database of the WOS (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI), Scopus, Scimago and DOAJ. The jindex application can be reache via the following link:
http://jindex.koyauniversity.org
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Dr. Salah I. Yahya, the director of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development and a Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Koya University, participated in the online international sypmosium that hosted by Dijlah University College and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Baghdad, Iraq. Prof. Yahya presented the Koya University experience in the E-learning. The presentation is entitled: "Adoption and implementation of e-learning in universities, the Iraqi Experience - Koya University as a model."

Assistant Professor Dr. Taghreed Khaleefa Mohammed Ali at the Department of Architecture Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Koya University with a research group from other Iraqi University, published a research article entitled “Fresh and hardened properties of lightweight self-compacting concrete containing walnut shells as coarse aggregate” in the  Journal of King Saud University – Engineering Sciences . The paper presents the mechanical properties of sustainable SCC made by using ground walnut shells. The Journal of King Saud University – Engineering Sciences is indexed by SCOPUS with Quartitle: Q1.

Today, 27th May 2020, the deirectorate of Quality Assurance at Koya University launched a smart search engine web-application. This search engine helps the academics and researchers to search for any scientific journal indexes by one click. The search engine (jindex) is capable to search 7 databases belong to the Clarivate analytics cores database of the WOS (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI), Scopus, Scimago and DOAJ. The jindex application can be reache via the following link:
http://jindex.koyauniversity.org